Holy-water Sprinkler, " the asperr/Ul, a brush for scattering holy water. A horrible Tudor mace, with radiating spikes, was called the morning star, or sprin- kler."—Walcott, Sacred Archceologij, p. 311.
Holy-water Stock (i. e. pillar) or Stoup (i. e. bucket). A station- ary stone basin (any porous substance which could suck it up was to be care- fully avoided) for holy water, placed at the entrance of the house of worship, called by the French henitier. Pope Leo III erected one at Ostia. "The stoup is found in all peri- ods of architecture, formed in the wall, set on a pillar, or in the porch, or standing on a pedestal." The vessel used by the Tem- ple priests was a brazen laver (see Isa. i, 16 ; Iii, 2; Exod.
Holy-water Stone at Romsey,Hants.
XXX, 20 ; 2 Cor. vii, 1 ; Psa. U, 2, 7).— Walcott, Sac. A r- ch(eologij, p. 811 sq.
Holy-water Vat (French, henitier ; Latin, situla, rcis), a vessel in which the holy water was carried about, and which, according to Micrologus, was first consecra- ted by pope Alexander V, as Cranmer says, to " put ns in remembrance of our baptism, and the blood of Christ for oiu: redemption, sprinkled on the cross." Eadie says " this vessel was termed anui or amula. Du Cange rec- ognises aspeisol, aspergillum, and ogpejsoritim as the vessels from which the priests sprinkled the water, and guadalerium as that which contained it. The first three are plainly the same as the irepippavrijpiov of pagan- ism." " The fixed holy- water stoup (q. v.) was used by those who came too late into church to receive the as- persion by the sprinkler and water carried in the port- able vat, which in the churches of the West represented the bodily ablution made by the Oriental Christians." — Walcott, Sacred A rchceology, p. 815 ; Eadie, Eccks. Die tionari), p. 313.
Holy "Week, the last week of Lent (q. v.), i. e. the week before Easter, and specially devoted to commem- orating the sufferings and death of Christ. In Eng- lish use, it is also called Passion Week (a name appro- priated, in Roman use, to the week before Palm Sun- day). This institution is of very early origin, and was "formerly called the 'Great Week,' and in mediajval times the ' Authentic,' with the same meaning ; in Ger- many and Denmark, the popular title is ' Still Week,' in allusion to the holj^ quiet and abstraction from labor during its continuance." In the Roman Catholic Church, the special characteristics of the celebration of the Holy Week are increased solemnity and gloom, penitential rigor, and mourning. If any of the ordinary Church festivals fall therein, they are transferred till after Easter. AU instrumental music is suspended in the churches, the altars are stripped of their ornaments, the pictures and statues are veiled from public sight, manual labor is vol- untarily suspended, the rigor of fasting is redoubled, and alms-deeds and other M'orks of mercy ard sedulously en- joined and practised. The days specially solemnized are Palm Sunday, Spy Wednesday, Holy (or IMaundy) Thursday, Good Friday (q. v.). Holy Saturdaj'. Holy Thursday (q. v.), in the Roman Catholic Church, is spe- cially designed as a commemoration of the Last Supper, and of the institution of the Eucharist. Besides these services, there are still others annexed to the day, as the solemn consecration of the oil or chrism (q. v.) used in baptism, confirmation, orders, and extreme unction, the washing of pilgrims' feet, and the chanting of the Tcne- broe (darkness), consisting of the matins and lauds for the following mornings, which it is customary to recite at night. "During the service, a large candlestick, sup- porting fifteen lights, arranged in the form of a triangle, which denote Christ and the prophets who predicted his coming, stands in the sanctuary ; the lights arc one by one extinguished until only the upper one remains, which is taken down and placed under the altar until the close of the office, and then brought back ; this sym- bolizes Christ's burial and resurrection." On Holy Sat- urday follow the solemn blessing of fire and the water of the baptismal font, the baptism of catechumens, and the ordination of candidates for the ministry. From the fire solemnly blessed on this day is lighted the Pas- chal Light, which is regarded as a symbol of Christ risen from the dead. This symbolical light is kept burn- ing during the reading of the gospel at ]\Iass through- out the interval between Easter and Pentecost. — Wet- zer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. vol. ii, art. Charwoche ; Proc- ter, Com. Prayer, p. 279 sq. ; Guericke, A niiquities, p. 141 sq.; Chambers, Cyc/o/j.v, 391; WaXcoit, Sacred A r- chceology, p. 315; Appleton, Anier. Cyclop, ix, 240, 241. See Passion.
Holy Wells, sacred springs m Popish countries- scenes of pilgrimage and expected miracles.
Holyoke, Edward, a Congregational minister, was
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born ill 1G90 at Boston. He graduated at Harvard Collei^e in 1705, was elected tutor in 1712, and on April 25, 171G, was ordained first pastor of the Second Church in Marblehead. In 1737 he was elected president of Harvard College, and remained in that office until his deatli, June 1, 1709. He published an A nstcer to White- field (1744), and a few occasional sermons. — Sprague, Annals, i,2<dZ. (G. L. T.)