Thurifer

Thurifer (Lat. thus, 'incense,' and fer, 'to carry'), the attendant in the Roman Catholic Church, at solemn mass, vespers, &c., whose duty it is to carry the thurible, or incense-vessel, and either to minister incense himself or to present the thurible to the officiating priest. The office is one of those which belong to the so-called 'minor order' of Acolyte.