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The candle, representing Christ himself, is blessed by the priest who then inscribes in it a cross, the first letters and last of the Greek alphabet, (Alpha and Omega `the beginning and the end ...

(4) To add solemnity to religious acts ... from the holy water blessed at other times in this, that the Easter water is blessed with greater solemnity, the paschal candle, which represents ...

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