thurifer

In Catholic Tradition, he is depicted as a thurifer.

The responsibilities of a thurifer include:

There was no thurifer; there were no candle-bearers.

With the grave and stately stride of a thurifer, the figure entered the ring, passed among the people to the crest of the hill.

The role of a boat boy is to assist the thurifer, the senior altar server who carries the thurible.

The first assistant then incenses the celebrant, after which the thurifer incenses the others as at Mass.

The thurible is then given back to the thurifer, who departs to the sacristy until he is needed again.

A thurifer, who holds the censer containing burning frankincense, led what Ian Dowding said was 1,500 to 2,000 participants.

Flourensia thurifera (as H. thurifer )

Slowly the clergy approached them, led by a thurifer, incense bearer, servers with candles, and then a processional cross and the choir.

In Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican churches, the altar server who carries the thurible is called the thurifer.

The priest enters, with a deacon, if there is one, and altar servers (who may act as crucifer, torch-bearers and thurifer).

A procession may include several persons - the reader ("gospeler"), two candle bearers, a crucifer, a thurifer, and someone to hold the gospel book.

A tall thin Pauline monk carrying a book and a scroll; a pair of novices, thurifer and crucifer; monks chanting a psalm.

A thurifer and seven acolytes accompanied the cross-bearer, and the apostolic subdeacon carried the Gospel Book (a function now reserved to a deacon).

E.g. Master of Ceremonies, Crucifer and Thurifer, together with the 1st and 2nd Acolytes.

The celebrants began to process: cassocked and sur-pliced thurifer swinging pungent incense, crucifer with black-shrouded processional cross, altar boys bearing glowing silver candlesticks.

The procession is led by a cross-bearer accompanied by two servers with lighted candles; other servers with lighted candles follow and a thurifer immediately precedes the priest.

A second thurifer came after them, followed by the entourages of the various bishops assisting in the ceremony, each preceded by his crozier bearer and followed by two boys with candles.

After Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, the sacred ministers ascend the steps to the altar, the thurifer brings his thurible, or censer, and a 'boat' of incense.

The deacon incenses the celebrant and any priests in the choir after which the thurifer incenses the rest of the altar party, followed by those in choir, and then the congregation.

A server called a thurifer, sometimes assisted by a "boat bearer" who carries the receptacle for the incense, approaches the person conducting the service with the thurible charged with burning bricks of red-hot charcoal.

Solemn Vespers differ in that the celebrant wears the cope, he is assisted by assistants also in copes, incense is used, and two acolytes, a thurifer, and at least one master of ceremonies are needed.

Boy acolytes from the cathedral flanked him with processional torches, sweltering in cassocks and surplices, and a thurifer walked behind them, trailing a cloud of pungent incense smoke and contributing to everyone's discomfort.

Entrance: Servers are to act as thurifer with burning incense (if incense is used at the Mass), as bearers of lighted candles flanking another carrying the cross and as other participants in the entrance procession.