holy water
Consecrated baptismal fluid
Holy water is water that has been blessed by a priest or religious figure, used in Christian rituals for blessing, purification, and protection against evil.
Catholics dip their fingers in holy water fonts when entering churches and cross themselves.
The term extends figuratively to anything treated as having special purifying or protective powers.
Character style set
- sprinklerWater-dispersing lawn fixture
- vialSmall glass liquid holder
- stoupSacred water receptacle
- aspersionDefamatory remark
sprinkling · chrism · anointing · consecration · sanctification · sacred · blessed · clergy
Character style set
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- christeningCeremony naming a child
- baptismalOf the initiation rite
- Easter VigilPre-Easter overnight liturgy
liturgy · ceremony · sacramental · mass · altar · funeral · wake · last rites
Remove dirt or sin
- exorcismRitual to expel demons
- exorciseExpel spirits ritually
- lustralOf ritual cleansing
- lustrationCleansing rite or vetting
ablution · purification · cleansing · protection · ward · evil spirits · demons · possession
font
Character style set
aspersion · sprinkling · chrism · anointing · consecration · sanctification · sacred · blessed · clergy · priest
font
Character style set
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- christeningCeremony naming a child
- baptismalOf the initiation rite
Easter Vigil · liturgy · ceremony · sacramental · mass · altar · funeral · wake · last rites · procession
cleanse
Remove dirt or sin
lustration · ablution · purification · cleansing · protection · ward · evil spirits · demons · possession · deliverance
Lourdes
French pilgrimage town
- FatimaCommon Arabic female name
- GangesIndia's holiest river
- Jordan RiverMiddle Eastern waterway ending saltily
shrine · grotto · miracle · healing · apparition · spring · well · relic · pilgrim · devotion
- sacred substancescommunion wine, communion wafer, chrism, frankincense, myrrh
- sacred waterssacred springs, sacred spring, sacred lake, sacred rivers, Ganges
- ritual drinkssacramental wine, communion wine, altar wine, libation, soma
- sacramentalsblessed candles, blessed salt, rosaries, scapulars, blessed objects
- supernatural weaknessessilver, sunlight, garlic, crosses, wooden stakes
- Transylvaniavampire, Dracula, castle, Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians
holy waterunholy water
Ritually corrupted sacred liquid
hellfire · demon blood · brimstone · poison · sulfur
holy watertap water
Plumbed household drinking source
plain water · drinking water · bottled water · well water · rainwater
water, holy, holiness, hallowed, sanctified, consecrated, hallow, holier-than-thou, holy waters