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Tenebrae Hearse |
 | | The funeral hearse was originally a wooden or metal framework, which stood over the bier or coffin and supported the pall. |
 | | Likewise in the case of the Tenebrae hearse, the term was employed because the prickets were supposed to resemble the teeth of a harrow. |
 | | At the present day, the Tenebrae hearse is made to bear fifteen candles, all of which, according to the "Caeremoniale Episcoporum" (II, xxii, 4), should be of unbleached wax, though in some churches a white candle is used on the apex of the triangle. |
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