What does a blue candle mean?

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Do Blue candles have any special application in the church? As everyone knows the red candle is for the Tabernacle. I was just wondering if the blue candle was for a specific use. For example, there is a blue candle lit before relics of the Saints in the Adoration Chapel.
 
i don’t think i’ve ever seen “blue wax” candles in a catholic church

perhaps something to do w/ Marian devotion…
 
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Some of our relics in the chapel include Maximilian Kolbe, Saint Therese, and Padre Pio among others.
 
Its usually a candle lit to signify prayers to Mary. I’ve seen blue glass enclosed votives before a statue of the BVM in many churches.
 
There are no official colors for the tabernacle candle/lamp, nor for any other candle within the Church. Even Advent Candles do not have an official color, although three purple and one rose candle are the most common as they correspond to the vestments worn by the priest on those days. Many times they are colored according to cultural connotations associated with that color. Blue = Mary, Red = Divine Mercy, etc. I have even seen a parish which changed the color of the shade on its sanctuary lamp to correspond to the liturgical feast/season (white/gold, red, rose, purple, green, and blue for Marian feasts).
 
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How’d you guys get the Maximilian Kolbe relic? the Franciscans hold onto those pretty hard
 
It means that the person who selected the candle wanted blue.
 
Blue is the most common color, I think, as an alternative to red. It gives off a soothing light, it seems to me. I like to see it burning in the dark.

To answer Maximillian75, I think we got it partly because one of our past priests is from Poland.
 
These are candles at Lourdes. Just the bottoms were blue.

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Just a little finishing touch to honor Mary. 🙂

There is a live webcam in Lourdes, by the way, for those who do not know. It’s 6:00 PM at the moment and there are those big candles with blue bottoms…

DIRECT FROM LOURDES - Lourdes Live TV

It’s a balmy 35 degrees and ready to snow. But if you want to avoid the crowds, the winter is the time to be there, as one can see.
 
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