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Sentence Examples They were once so numerous that the town kept the feast of St Crispin on October 25, patron saint of cobblers. These local religious festivals usually center on a particular saint or legend. His erect attitude and sickly whiteness of face, flowing white hair, and spiritual aspect gave him the appearance of a grand old saint. The saint rests in his tomb and also in immediately accessible reliquaries to the left of the royal doors of the icon screen. Cecil Gould has sustained that the altarpiece includes a self-portrait of the artist in the guise of his name saint, Saint Anthony of Padua. The Feast of Nossa Senhora Aparecida, the patron saint of Brazil, is a legal holiday. Will McDonough is a sportswriting saint, beatified by acclamation that day almost a quarter-century ago when he punched an NFL player. I almost laugh but Martin Compston, patron saint of leisurewear in Scotland, just grins. Tomorrow is the feast day of St Piran, the patron saint of Cornwall, and Sunday is Mothering Sunday. Even the patron saint of teenage girls, Judy Blume, is featured on the back cover with a blurb for the book. The saint and the leper embrace and the leper is miraculously healed, but the real miracle is the love that makes healing and transformation possible. Race relations in saint Louis could hinge on the outcome of this announcement. Had the patron saint of repenting harlots seduced him into some sort of cohabitation? A decaying statue of St. Lucia, patron saint of the blind, holds a platter with two eyes. This new sense opens the eyes of the regenerate saint to see and understand divine things in a way that had been impossible for him before his conversion. Part Grim Reaper, part angel, this deathly saint had few followers, and they mostly worshipped in private. Later, Northumberland's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was an abbot of the monastery, and then Bishop of Lindisfarne. Saint Piran, after whom Perranporth is named, is generally regarded as the patron saint of Cornwall. Serf was the teacher of Saint Mungo, the apostle of Strathclyde, and patron saint of Glasgow. Henry III rebuilt the abbey in honour of a royal saint, Edward the Confessor, whose relics were placed in a shrine in the sanctuary. Show More Sentences The body of the saint was exhumed, and according to the Rites of Durham, was discovered to be uncorrupted. The earliest dedication to the saint in England is a church at Fordington, Dorset that is mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great. The main feast day is May 7, when the statue of the saint along with other saints is taken in procession around the church. Saint George may also be portrayed with Saint Demetrius, another early soldier saint. Then the saint intimated, as it was believed, that he wished to remain in Durham. During the Middle Ages, St George replaced Edmund as the patron saint of England when Edward III associated George with the Order of the Garter. In 2006 some Church of England clergy suggested that Alban should replace St George as the patron saint of England. Supposedly, the relics of the saint had been brought here, maybe as early as the ninth century. Stephen's Vita is a hagiography, intended to show Wilfrid as a saintly man, and to buttress claims that he was a saint. The ceremony in 695 found that her body had not decayed, which led to her being declared a saint. He also became a popular saint in Brittany by the end of the tenth century. Piran is a mountain in Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, named after the saint. St Piran's Crab, Clibanarius erythropus a small hermit crab found on the south Cornwall coast is named in honour of the hermit saint. Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru and the founder of Sikhism, was a Bhakti saint. In the early Medieval period, the altar always contained, or was associated with, the relics of a saint. He rejected the practice of selling indulgences, as well as the common saint cult practices of the day. Martin, the town's patron saint, is the oldest in Germany still in use for its original purpose. A deva prasnam conducted in July 1975 revealed that the image had been consecrated by a saint from Tirupati more than one thousand years ago. He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him. It became associated with Saint George, along with countries and cities, which claimed him as their patron saint and used his cross as a banner. Show More Sentences An early festivity was Mabsant, when local parishes would celebrate the patron saint of their local church. Commemorating the patron saint of friendship and love, Dydd Santes Dwynwen's popularity has been increasing recently. In more recent times, some have suggested the adoption of St Aidan as another patron saint of Britain. It was for his theological writings that he earned the title of Doctor Anglorum, and why he was made a saint. The same chronicle records that Saint Patrick, Ireland's best known patron saint, arrived the following year. By the seventh century, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland. In the early 640s Penda defeated and killed both Ecgric and Sigeberht, who was later venerated as a saint. This golden book was apparently to support Aquitanian claims of St Martial, patron saint of Aquitaine, as an apostle. Confessor reflects his reputation as a saint who did not suffer martyrdom, as opposed to King Edward the Martyr. He was also the patron saint of Prussia and of the Order of the Golden Fleece. In his political struggles, Henry perceived many similarities between himself and England's patron saint, Edward the Confessor. St George became the patron saint of England and his cross eventually became the flag of England. Some were written a long time after the death of a saint, but others were written not long after the saint's demise. The coronations of Charles II in 1661 and Anne in 1702 were on St George's Day, the feast of the patron saint of England. The sword is believed to represent the sword that beheaded Saint Paul who is the patron saint of the city. Lacking such a saint, an occupation would have a patron whose acts or miracles in some way recall the profession. Normandy does not have one generally agreed patron saint, although this title has been ascribed to Saint Michael, and to Saint Ouen. The will of Alfred the Great is said to refer to the saint, in a reference to the church of Fordington, Dorset. The saint most closely associated with England until the 14th century was Edward the Confessor. No saint is known by the name of Kilda and various theories have been proposed for the word's origin, which dates from the late 16th century. Show More Sentences According to legend, in the late 5th century Saint Woolos church was founded by Saint Gwynllyw, the patron saint of Newport and King of Gwynllwg. This does not 'make' the person a saint, it merely recognizes the fact and announces it to the rest of the Church. The bishop will also often present a small relic of a saint to place in or on the altar as part of the consecration of a new church. In a twist on the miracle of the saint crying milk, her neogoth eye makeup had made her look as though she were crying black crude oil. Stupas in India and Tibet probably started out in a similar fashion, although they now generally contain the ashes of a Buddhist saint or lama. The patron saint of Scotland is Saint Andrew, and Saint Andrew's Day is celebrated in Scotland on 30 November. Red and silver are the colours of John the Baptist, the town's patron saint, and the lamb is his symbol. Scotland's national relics and regalia were made in a formal presentation to the English royal saint, Edward the Confessor. Saint Andrew is also the patron saint of Romania and the Romanian Orthodox Church. He fasted four or five days and prayed to the saint, before returning by sea to Cardross. Other notable early missionaries are Gildas and the Irish saint Columbanus. These penitential ceremonies occur in some villages in Lower Brittany on the feast day of the parish's saint. Andrew, along with Saint Stachys, is recognized as the patron saint of the Patriarchate. At one time, many fishermen lived in the village of Luqa, and this may be the main reason for choosing Andrew as patron saint. At around this time, he also preached to Nonnita, the mother of Saint David, while she was pregnant with the saint. Arthur soon arrived to besiege him, but, the peacemaking saint persuaded Melvas to release Guinevere and the two kings made peace. Gildas is the patron saint of several churches and monasteries in Brittany, and his feast day is celebrated on 29 January. The cathedral is also home to the relic of Saint Richard Gwyn, Wrexham's patron saint. Saint David was recognised as a national patron saint in the 12th century at a peak time of Welsh resistance to the Normans. Devon also has its own flag which has been dedicated to Saint Petroc, a local saint with dedications throughout Devon and neighbouring counties. Show More Sentences They are usually associated with a particular Coptic or Sufi saint, but are often celebrated by Egyptians irrespective of creed or religion. The Llangernyw Yew in Clwyd, Wales, can be found at an early saint site and is about 1,500 years old. Colmcille, with the former having an annual day dedicated to the saint on 9 June. There is even an Orthodox Church monastery dedicated to the saint in the Massachusetts town of Southbridge. Columba is historically revered as a warrior saint, and was often invoked for victory in battle. The book is not only aimed at Saint Augustine but was also preceded by conversations with the saint. Ambrose was one of the four original Doctors of the Church, and is the patron saint of Milan. Charlemagne was revered as a saint in the Holy Roman Empire after the twelfth century. I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff! After his martyrdom, he was quickly hailed as a saint in Fulda and other areas in Germania and in England. In the modern era, Lutz von Padberg published a number of biographies and articles on the saint focusing on his missionary praxis and his relics. To call Mao either the saint or the devil of China is relevant only to those who see history as a branch of ponerology. Luther in popular memory had become a saint, his picture capable of saving houses from burning down, if it was fixed to the parlour wall. Each of the city's 897 barangays also have their own festivities guided by their own patron saint. The majority of towns, cities and villages have their own official church or cathedral and patron saint. Dubrovnik's most beloved church is St Blaise's church, built in the 18th century in honour of Dubrovnik's patron saint. One important saint is Isidore the Laborer, who is connected to the bringing of rain. Founded circa 1542 by saint Francis Xavier, Saint Paul's College, Goa was a Jesuit school in Old Goa, which later became a college. St Hubert, the patron saint of hunting, is also patron saint of the Forest of Bowland and has a chapel dedicated to him in Dunsop Bridge. The legend is almost certainly medieval rather than ancient, although the town's coat of arms carries an image of the saint. Show More Sentences Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven. If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. I'm no saint, but growing up on the end of a razor strap gave me a sense of values that kept me out of serious trouble. Tensions are rising in saint Louis, Mo., as race relations heat up. Although he is often listed as a saint, this is not confirmed by Bede and it has recently been argued that such assertions are incorrect. The bronze Gniezno Doors of Gniezno Cathedral in Poland are the only Romanesque doors in Europe to feature the life of a saint. With the introduction of Latin literature into England in the 7th and 8th centuries the genre of the life of the saint grew increasingly popular. As a venerated saint his tomb attracted many pilgrims to Lindisfarne. After 1066 there was a subdued cult of Edward as a saint, possibly discouraged by the early Norman abbots of Westminster, which gradually increased in the early 12th century. The term hagiography may be used to refer to the biography of a saint or highly developed spiritual being in any of the world's spiritual traditions. Each town and city has its own patron saint, and the feast days are marked by colourful processions through the streets with marching bands and displays of fireworks. Wonders, in the way of cure of bodily disease, are said to have been wrought by this saint, whose fame is now passed away and name almost forgotten. Northumbria's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was a monk and later abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede. Blake is recognised as a saint in the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica. Thanks for looking after the house while I'm away. You're a saint! There was a historiographical tradition claiming that Richard the Lionheart himself adopted both the flag and the patron saint from Genoa at some point during his crusade. In contrast to the ongoing controversy about the possible sainthood of the late Pope John Paul II, it's much easier to be named a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Traditionally, it has been understood that the patron saint of a particular place prays for that place's wellbeing and for the health and happiness of all who live therein. Professions sometimes have a patron saint owing to that individual being involved somewhat with it, although some of the connections were tenuous. At the end of this section, a brief comparison is made with two other abecedaria, one created by the Virasaiva saint Siddharama, the other by the savant John Wilkins. Show More Sentences Henry VIII summoned the dead saint to court to face charges of treason. However, since Ignatius was not only a saint but also a master anagrammatist, he mused on the musical dilemma by anagramming TEARS instead of weeping them. St George rose to high popularity as a warrior saint during the time of the Crusades, but he had no special identity as a patron saint of England during the High Middle Ages. Another church established by the saint himself was St Kentigern's Church of Lanark, founded shortly before his death, and which now stands in ruins. Saint Patrick is the only one commonly recognised as the patron saint. You must have had the patience of a saint to sit through that awful film! It incorporates a number of symbols and emblems associated with the life of Glasgow's patron saint, Mungo, which had been used on official seals prior to that date. St Candida and Holy Cross at Whitchurch Canonicorum is the only church in the country, besides Westminster Abbey, to have a shrine that contains the relics of a saint. He is the patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers. Reflecting his Irish origins, his Scottish monasticism and his ministry to the English, Aidan has been proposed as a possible patron saint of the United Kingdom. It is far more common for an icon to be copied from an older model, though with the recognition of a new saint in the church, a new icon must be created and approved. Following this reasoning, the veneration of the glorified human saint made in God's image, is always a veneration of the divine image, and hence God as foundational archetype. As several Orthodox theologians and saints have explored in the past, the icon's miraculous nature is found not in the material, but in the glory of the saint who is depicted. Wales is not represented in the Union Flag by Wales's patron saint, Saint David, as at the time the flag was designed Wales was part of the Kingdom of England. The St Albans School for Boys, which is affiliated with and was established in 1909 soon after construction of the Cathedral began, is also named for the saint. The archbishop probably died in 604 and was soon revered as a saint. In 2013 another campaign to reinstate St Edmund as patron saint was begun with the backing of representatives from businesses, Churches, radio and local politicians. Edmund's shrine was of silver and adorned with solid silver statues and when his relics were translated to it, the population came for eight days to honour the saint. This apparent miracle led to the steady growth of Cuthbert's posthumous cultus, to the point where he became the most popular saint of Northern England. According to Bede's life of the saint, when Cuthbert's sarcophagus was opened eleven years after his death, his body was found to have been perfectly preserved or incorrupt. Show More Sentences Fishermen also asked intervention from the saint for better fisheries. Within this area the Bishop of Durham had almost as much power as the king of England himself, and the saint became a powerful symbol of the autonomy the region enjoyed. But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received. The main pilgrim centers of the saint in India are at Edathua in Alappuzha district and Edappally in Ernakulam district of the southern state of Kerala. Hence, he became a patron saint of Ukraine, Romania and Russia. The community chose its own patron saint, staged its own festivals, congregated around its own market center, constructed its own bell towers and developed its own customs. The procedure involves extending to the universal church the use of the Divine Office and Mass of the saint in which the title of doctor is applied to him. He is considered the founder and the first bishop of the Church of Byzantium and is consequently the patron saint of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It the 6th century, this was home to Dubricius, the first Celtic saint. The patron saint of Wales is Saint David, Dewi Sant in Welsh. It often begins with a procession followed by mass in honour of the saint. Over a hundred holy wells exist in Cornwall, each associated with a particular saint, though not always the same one as the dedication of the church. Saint Cuthbert, a monk of Lindisfarne, was venerated from Nottinghamshire to Cumberland, and is today sometimes named the patron saint of Northern England. An adherent of such an ethic ought rather to be understood as a saint, for it is only saints, according to Weber, that can appropriately follow it. The commote of Glynrhondda was coterminous with the earlier parish of Ystradyfodwg, but little is known of the Celtic saint Tyfodwg, or Dyfodwg after whom the parish is named. And he is lionized in bien-pensant circles in Western Europe and North America, almost as a secular saint in the mold of a Vaclav Havel or a Desmond Tutu. The very size of All Saints meant that it was probably a place of pilgrimage for centuries, housing a relic or statue of a saint that has since disappeared. The town's name is derived from its patron saint, Saint Tudno. Edward is regarded as a patron saint of difficult marriages. Examples from Classical Literature Shall we say that the mother of a saint is, ex officio, or even by courtesy, also a saint? Saint Denys was a great saint, since there was no doubt of his being in very deed the Areopagite himself. Here was the pale face of the ascetic, and there the guileless eyes of the saint. He has developed the astuteness of the devil, the open sincerity of a saint. To the monastery he had founded Athelstan presented some reputed relics of the saint. Le bon aptre du roi fait l le saint homme, et il est bien mieux pris que lorsque le bourguignon le mena Lige. It was also bruted, that his bodie was buried in the monasterie of saint Andrewes of the Cisteaux order. Maybe he was a saint of the first water, and maybe he was a pillar of the church that ran a building society. A thread from the stole of the ancient saint was said to have had the power to cure hydrophobia, if aided by cauterization. Elijah looks more like a wild aboriginal man than a saint of the cinquecento. What a good saint is our Ignatius, exclaimed the consolable widow, he bestows on us more benefits than we ask for! Alone of all superiors, the saint does not depress the human dignity of others. Another custom known as dharna is that of a suppliant placing a stone on the shrine of a god or tomb of a saint. After all, a saint of old was glad that his name should be enrolled in the diptych of his Church, and remembered in her prayers. Every Grecian home has its eikon or picture of a saint or the Blessed Virgin. The patron saint of its Chief is St. Pancreas and his eupepsia is reflected in his subordinates. The morow after the feast of saint Michaell, a parlement anno Reg. While you bemoan our earthliness, you may not be the one saint among us. There was to be nothing finer or sweeter in the life of even Benvenuto Cellini, that rough-hewn saint, ten centuries later. In these verses, the saint and queen proclaimed by campanella is Nature. Show More Sentences It was even proposed that the Pope should canonise Plato as a saint. The veneration of the saint is much increased since his canonization. If Christmas Day is the feast of St Nicholas, today we celebrate St John Barleycorn, patron saint of hangovers. She eagerly longed to see a place in which she fancied charms short only of those which a raptured saint imagines in heaven. Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour. To dedicate the chapel to her patron saint was only natural. Louis were in a body at the sally-port, with the French saint at their head, crying to speak a word under favor. Also king Ethelbert builded the church of saint Andrews in Rochester. You wouldn't think that man was a saint to look at him, would you? What pleasure can they take in seeing saint Agnes, I would like to know. Have we indeed outstripped the warrior and passed the ascetical saint? I had instantly seen that the saint was in a high state of samadhi. The Ethiopic saint is nothing inferior to his western brethren. Bede tells that the saint bore the united name of Columbkill. Indeed, without it only a boor or a saint can be really comfortable. A survey has found that one in five people in England do not know when St George's Day is, and a quarter do not know that Saint George is our patron saint. As Margery Kempe, Henry Benjamin Whipple, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer saw it, silence in the face of evil was just plain wrong None of them has been declared a saint. He shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an anathema. But I can almost forgive them, because, as I told you, she is a saint, and a persecution is all that she needs to bring out her saintliness and make her perfect. In the third story, or guard-chamber, is a small recess with a loop-hole, probably a bedchamber, and in that floor above a niche for a saint or holy-water pot. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of saint? Words that rhyme with saint What is the past tense of saint? What is the plural of saint? What is the adverb for saint? What is the adjective for saint? What is the noun for saint? Translations for saint Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sainfoin Sain sain sail through sails Sailors Saint sainted sainthood saintlike saintliness Saint-Louis 5-letter Words Starting With s sa sai sain