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Meaning of incensiario




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

incensiario
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It is the name given to a container with a small stove and perforations that is used to burn incense, incense burners, perfumes and essences. It can also be called censer, cauldron? or the timiaterio to which they are very similar.

  




Jimeno Álvarez

1.-The incense burners or also called turibulos, are containers to burn incense used in certain religious celebrations. They are known in Jewish antiquity and still in the Egyptian and Greco-Roman, they adopted by the Church from the early centuries, according to historical documents and the figurative representations in frescoes and miniatures of codices from the middle ages. 2.-Is one of the key elements in the arrangement of the altar for the rituals. Whether we use rods, cones, or incense in grain, must have a container that collect the ashes, and insulate the altar of incense heat by burning.

  



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