Serafina

Serafina the Torchbearer is a being considered to be a deity or immortal, and the patron of the Church of Light. She helped teach the philosophy and discipline of the Inner Light to a farmer named Vito, whose charity organization later became the Church of Light.

Serafina is most often portrayed as a white-robed woman with white feathered wings, holding a torch in one hand. She is known for wishing to teach mortals how to help themselves rather than to rely on her own intervention, though she is believed to have personally intervened on rare occasions.

Quote from a post by Rias (http://bbs.contrarium.net/viewtopic.php?id=928):

Church history tells of Vito, a humble farmer who had such genuine care and compassion for his family and other loved ones that he managed to discover the ways of thaumaturgy - that is, channeling his Inner Light. His ability at any actual channeling was weak, but he taught the discipline to like-minded people so that they too could better care for others, and formed a sort of unofficial charity organization. Soon after, it is said that Serafina appeared to Vito and the others in this organization and taught them how to better channel their Inner Light, always reminding them that the power came from within, and that they had the ability themselves to perform amazing things for the good of all so long as they had the proper knowledge and discipline. Since then Serafina has been a patron of the Church (as Vito's organization was later founded). She is occasionally called on for help by people in need, and while she will often only tell those who call on her to find the power within to help themselves, there are occasional reports of her intervening on behalf of those who are beyond being able to help themselves. She is also known particularly for supporting and even providing some of her own personal power to those Templar who daily hurl themselves into danger on behalf of others, putting their own safety behind the safety of those they have sworn to protect.