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American Heritage Dictionary (3 definitions)
- A small candle kept burning in the chancel of Christian churches to symbolize the presence of the Holy Sacrament; an altar light.
- A candle lighted by a worshiper for a special devotional purpose.
- A light or candle kept burning at a shrine or before an icon.
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- A candle lighted by a worshiper in a church.
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The fainthearted believers grant you the freedom to maintain your vigil light as you wish, but they do not wish to see it lit.
A Byzantine icon of his patron, the apostle John, marked another wall, with a vigil light burning before it; Richard used to joke that his Lutheran pastorate, the church of St. John the Evangelist in the then desperately poor Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, was "St. John the Mundane," as distinguished from the Episcopalian Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights.
The heretics want to fill the vigil light with water in place of oil.
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