Our altar boys practically fight for the honor of being the thurifer. That’s the name for the server who carries the thurible — the censer — in the procession at Mass. They like being thurifer because ...

Thurifer (pronounced THUR-uh-fer) is from the Latin thuribulum, thus, “frankincense,” plus fero, “to carry.” The thurifer is the person who carries the thurible.

There are the candles, of course. But even more pleasing are the duties of the thurifer, the acolyte who bears the container (the thurible) of burning incense. I like to see billows of smoke issuing ...

From a censer swung by a thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church. In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church’s Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side ...

The painting depicts a thurifer (or incense-bearing) angel, and the sale took place in a Carmelite chapel. In a drama worthy of one of New York’s marquee evening sales, seven international ...

“I recall carrying the thurifer. Or was it thurible?” Peter Ackroyd is remembering his days in the late 1950s as an altar server in his local Catholic parish church in Acton, west London ...

It is thought to be the lost pair of the Thurifer Angel by Strigel, which was bought by the Louvre Abu Dhabi for €1.1m at Drouot, Paris, in 2008. Born into a family of artists in Memmingen, near ...

The thurifer, left, with an incense burner, helped lead the procession as it began at the intersection of Third Avenue and 99th Street.