holy water
Noun
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Noun
holy water (uncountable)
- (Christianity) In certain Christian churches, water that has been sanctified by a priest or bishop for the purpose of baptism or for the blessing of persons, places, or things.
, Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber, Charles Page Eden, Alexander Taylor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, page 88 - None comes to this holy feast but they whose sins are cleansed in baptism, who are sanctified in those holy waters of regeneration, who have obedient souls,
- 1979, "The Catechesis of Cyril of Jerusalem", translated by Lucien Deiss, Matthew J. O'Connell, in Springtime of the Liturgy
- In a parallel way, when you came up from the font and its holy waters, you received chrismation and the mark with which Christ was chrismated.
- French: eau bénite
- German: Weihwasser
- Italian: acqua benedetta, acqua santa
- Portuguese: água benta
- Russian: свята́я вода́
- Spanish: agua bendita
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