WordNet
n. a candle lighted by a worshiper in a church [syn: vigil candle]
Usage examples of "vigil light".
There was a single vigil light burning at the top of the stairs, but it cast only scant illumination down the long dormitory.
Other than the tiny vigil light burning in the far corner, there was no other light in the chamber.
Out in the hall, she stops before the vigil light to pray to the All-Holy: “.
But the blackened old crucifix with its red vigil light was the one poor lost Sunny, Don's wife, had nailed up as a newlywed in the cottage on School Street.
He slowed as he caught Dumarest's eye and turned to concentrate on a vigil light, the round, blotched circle it illuminated.
It was simple to sort the innocent, who believed in the faith of the vigil light or the saints to protect them, from those who had played with the Devil and now kept an uneasy watch in the dark with sword in hand.