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The Torch Bearer, a 1916 American silent film; The Torchbearer, a 2005 Czech animated short film; The Torchbearers, a sculpture at the University of Texas at Austin; Torchbearers International, a network of Bible schools; VAW-125, a United States Navy squadron known as the Torch Bearers; A person who carries the Olympic Torch
Cautes holds a burning torch pointed up, whereas Cautopates holds a burning torch pointed down. [2] Cautopates is usually depicted on the left, but not always. They are often shown standing with their legs crossed, but not always. The two torch-bearers are often interpreted as symbols of light, one for the rising, the other for the setting sun. [3]
Daduchos or Daduchus, or Dadouchos (/ d ə ˈ d j uː k ə s /; [1] Ancient Greek: δᾳδοῦχος "torch-bearer", from δᾶις+ἔχω) is an epithet of Artemis, and notably of Demeter seeking her lost daughter with a torch. It was also an epithet of Hekate, [2] a goddess frequently associated with torches.
A relay's usual complement consisted of two torch-bearers, two luggage-porters, and eight palanquin-bearers who worked in gangs of four, although all eight might pitch in at steep sections. A passenger could travel straight through or break their journey at dak bungalows located at certain stations. [11]
Ranulf Flambard [a] (c. 1060 – 5 September 1128) was a medieval Norman Bishop of Durham and an influential government official of King William Rufus of England. Ranulf was the son of a priest of Bayeux, Normandy, and his nickname Flambard means incendiary or torch-bearer, and may have referred to his personality.
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Torchbearers International (initially known as the "Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers" [7]) began in northern England at Capernwray Hall in 1947. It was the German youth who came in those early years to Capernwray who began calling themselves the “Fackelträger” or “carriers of the torch”, and so the name “Torchbearers” was born.