Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits. |
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All this started eight centuries ago when renascent Europe unleashed a colonialising campaign to reclaim the holy places. |
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A revered monk sprinkles holy water on the gathered masses bringing in the New Year in South Pattaya. |
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Many Muslims prefer to give zakat during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. |
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Father Fingleton blessed the audience and building with holy water and congratulated the club for their work. |
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There Tondal repents of his misdeeds and returns to the holy candour of a life untroubled by sin. |
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Buildings, offices and factories are seldom opened for use without the blessing of the priest with his holy water. |
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The couple knelt in a crouched position with their hands joined over a bowl of holy water. |
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In thousands of journal articles and scholarly monographs Christianity's holy wars have been probed, analyzed, and debated. |
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Their secret agenda, crushing the Axis into submission, was holy and treated as such. |
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He will continue recuperating from breathing problems and concentrate on his plans for holy week, which begins next Sunday. |
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Elections are rarely worth defending, and certainly are not the holy things modern-day majoritarians say they are. |
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And even holy people, who can sometimes seem a bit precious about getting their feet wet, can't keep out the commercial tide. |
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In due time Baba's holy body was placed and preserved in the central shrine. |
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This is in Russia six hundred years ago, in a world of Tatar invaders, monks and holy fools. |
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Often, a war will be said to be fought for God and country, or even called a holy war. |
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When, in the Middle Ages, the pope sought volunteers to fight in holy wars by promising eternal salvation, only a few came. |
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For most Japanese, he was a living god, as propounded in the myths of State Shint, and the conflict was a holy war fought in his name. |
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Moreover, by papal decree, the monarchs of Spain and Portugal were commanded to wage a holy war to support this missionary endeavour. |
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Let's face it, we are constantly hearing from the holy rollers with their reassuring message that miracles do happen. |
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At his party conferences, he's appeared sometimes like a kind of holy roller figure, sometimes like a rather earnest vicar. |
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I'm not condemning her for that at all, but I just have to explain that that is why I quit being such a holy roller. |
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The report was released, and, holy moly, what Clark had said was in the report was not. |
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In pagan Europe it was a festive holy day celebrating the first spring planting. |
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Friday, the holiest day for Muslims, is as well the holy day for Hindus to worship of the Mother Divine. |
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Certainly he was susceptible to the charge of not doing his share religiously, and on holy days at least walked in awe of those who did. |
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She explained to me that they have a Mass out there for holy days and other religious occasions. |
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Some religious holy days were customarily observed with village processions while others were less dramatic. |
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They gain merit by good acts and religious deeds that include acting properly, celebrating holy days, and taking food to the monks at the temple. |
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He was above all a holy man, but holiness is primarily about a person's relationship to God. |
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Do you have your sacred space, where you build your stuff, your holy of holies? |
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His paintings should have found a place in the holy of holies of the collection. |
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When the temple curtain is torn, God is no longer confined to the holy of holies. |
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Pompey when he rode in to Jerusalem was curious enough to look in the holy of holies, the most sacred part of Gods temple. |
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He went into the temple and ate the bread in the holy of holies, that no person is to touch. |
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Everywhere you go, from the hot banks of the Dead Sea to the summits of holy mountains, stones are everywhere. |
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Ghuroub, a suggestively Buddhist-like land, is where Fattouma meets a holy man who tries to prepare him for the journey to Gebel. |
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We think Chuckie would be welcome in a holy place because his gentle nature represented charity and compassion. |
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Once declared a holy person, the next step is beatification and finally canonisation. |
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They sing devotional songs in praise of the lord, and holy texts are chanted throughout the night. |
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Everyone was pursuing the holy grail of the young and trendy listener with the disposable income. |
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Rather than pursuing the holy grail of million-selling titles, the company is focused on achieving annual profitability. |
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The upshot is that there is no obvious genetic holy grail defining what it means to be human. |
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The holy grail for retail developers is turning shopping into a leisure pursuit. |
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Japan, as the most style-conscious market on the planet, represents the holy grail in fashion terms. |
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Neither doctor manages to find the holy grail of a cure, but their quest lays bare the foundations of contemporary thinking on the subject. |
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The Church in England has already relaxed its celibacy rules by allowing married Anglican priests to convert and remain in holy orders. |
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These elements are said to glow in the inner worlds and, like holy ash, are prominently visible to the Gods and devas. |
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He held his vast audience captive by his thought-provoking exposition of the holy text. |
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She was also known to mock the holy sacrament of baptism by sprinkling water on her mother's head and reciting the appropriate words. |
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The holy grail for any magazine is hitting your target market bang on the nail. |
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In the book of Revelation, the martyrs are vindicated by the descent of the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven to earth. |
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Many Mauritanians have faith in the supernatural powers of holy men called marabouts, or murabitun. |
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The catacombs date back to the 1599 when the local priests mummified a holy monk for all to see. |
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Everytime she left the house she blessed herself with holy water, even if only going to the well. |
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To begin with, when you first come into church, bless yourself with holy water. |
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She blessed herself with holy water before walking out of the church, and who did she see standing on the sidewalk? |
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The gurdwara authorities maintain that by providing them shelter in a legal way, the sanctity of the holy place was not being violated. |
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In 1848 he took holy orders in the Augustinian monastery where he also became choirmaster. |
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Similarly, on other occasions, pictures or images of gurus and saintly people have been seen miraculously to produce holy water or ash. |
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In August, open areas can be planted with perennial cover crops such as clover or sainfoin, sometimes called esparcet or holy clover. |
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The same idea must be carried further and applied not only to the Logos himself, but to the other persons of the holy Trinity. |
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Kashmir was a holy land for us, where our yogis and sages prayed and meditated and many of our Hindu people went on pilgrimages. |
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In Old Testament times, blood from sacrificed animals was applied to certain vessels in the tabernacle or temple to make them holy for God's use. |
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There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. |
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It shouldn't take such an enormous grassroots effort to prevent sacrilegious exploitation of holy places. |
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Soon the holy image of the gorgon Medusa as an ancient symbol of female power and wisdom became totally unacceptable. |
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The aspersorium, containing a small amount of holy water, and aspergillum are placed at the sedilia for use during the final Commendation. |
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Within this religious setting, the pot thus functions as a vessel for holy water and the wand as an aspergillum. |
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Today we are attempting to make the Gospel a means of bringing sinners into God's holy Presence. |
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The temple was holy and spiritual yet somehow areligious in its atmosphere, design and decoration. |
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Music styles include hyper pop-punk, holy hip-hop, and something called hybrid death tuneage. |
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In 1752 he became a monk at the monastery of the Escorial, and a year later was admitted to holy orders. |
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Yet for all the talk of military hardware and holy war, little time is devoted to what happens if it goes wrong. |
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When pilgrims and the holy men of the shrine gathered to hear Guru Nanak and question him, he sang in Persian. |
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The government mounted a new Operation in May 1988 to displace these bandits from the holy shrine. |
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The Sikhs were also deprived of many historic shrines and holy places which were left in Pakistan. |
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The holy shrines of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri are closed for six months a year due to inclement weather and extreme cold. |
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Its domed roof resembles the Dome of Rock, one of the Muslims' holy shrines in Jerusalem. |
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Pilgrimages to shrines and holy places at home and abroad attract tens of thousands of people each year. |
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I can't resist stopping for one brief second to point out that the word holiday is merely a contraction of the words holy day. |
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The service is concerned with the celebration of the annunciation of the holy mother of God, he said. |
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They rest at a holy place, a hill with crowns of trees and golden star-shaped flowers. |
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These Anglian boys, Bede says through the term candidus, shine like holy angels. |
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I attended a holy union two years ago that was facilitated by two United Methodist laywomen. |
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I still cannot get my head round the idea that golf's holy of holies is situated just off a busy dual carriageway. |
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Yes, well that's to protect against intruders who want to desecrate this holy room. |
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They have a holy duty, they say, to brook no compromise with separatists, but instead to eliminate them by military means. |
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He fingered an empty holy water vial, reminiscing on past battles and forgotten glories. |
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Or a lot of people consider him a holy man, a prophet, and a hero, and they don't want your filthy Yanqui money anyway. |
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The longer term holy grail of 3D bioprinting is the ability to be able to print viable human tissue for grafting or implant into the human body. |
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At the same time, we are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. |
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The day is among the most holy in the religion, a celebration of the birth of Christ, His salvation. |
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An elderly man, presumably seeking to protect the sanctity of this holy site, was shouting after them. |
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This Memorial Day weekend, I suggest a visit to a truly sacred and, indeed, holy place. |
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Next you'll be throwing a cross in my face and attempting to banish me from a holy building. |
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That, my guidebook tells me, is the one colour you really should not wear because it is associated with the enemy of the holy martyr. |
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There's something about his knit cap with the hood covering it that looks as holy as a wimple. |
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Particular emphasis is placed on not recognizing the holy days or national observances of the infidels. |
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I did not understand that God did not merely require the outward observance of certain rituals but rather a clean heart and a holy life. |
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The conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See. |
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When these oblations are concluded, we will all flood the lake or the nearby ocean for our holy dip in the sanctified waters. |
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It surely is not because we are more godly, holy and mature than our friend ever was. |
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In Maoridom, a tapu area is considered sacred and holy and it is believed that anyone breaking the rahui will face spiritual consequences. |
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Far from being regarded as nutty they were sought out as sages or holy men. |
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He saw himself as a professor of the holy scriptures and a teacher of the church. |
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An epiphany strikes me with the magnificent glory of a holy intervention and instantly brings my seizure to a halt. |
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I wasn't about to let people go around pawing a holy artifact like it was just any old piece of junk. |
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Ley lines are alleged alignments of ancient sites or holy places, such as stone circles, standing stones, cairns, and churches. |
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At Friday prayers in the two cities holy to Shiite Muslims, hope as well for an end to the daily barrage of artillery and gunfire. |
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The Country Parson being to administer the Sacraments, is at a stand with himself, how or what behavior to assume for so holy things. |
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For decades it has been acclaimed as pop music's lost masterpiece, the holy grail of rock and the best album never made. |
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In the indigenous Berber religion, the holy men, called marabouts, were thought to be endowed by God with special powers. |
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They are called marabouts, or holy men, and are believed to have baraka, or divine grace. |
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But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land. |
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Aelred, a friend and follower of St. Bernard, defined holy friendship for the monks of his abbey. |
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Eustace's first act was to bless a holy well at Wye, where many healing miracles were reported and a woman was cured of demoniac possession. |
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Sikhs in the Indian state of Punjab celebrate the tricentenary of the Sikh holy book the Guru Granth Sahib. |
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The big story today has to do with soldiers mishandling terrorists' holy texts at a detention center. |
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On these days they do not enter temples or home shrines, or approach holy men. |
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The holy land of Bharat is the birthplace of many incarnations and manifestations of divine power that descended on earth in human garb. |
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Over clear pools, that solitude must bide, await your sowing like a holy bride, to cast off widowhood when you draw near. |
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Yet it takes only one sin for us to stand condemned according to God's holy law. |
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Do you find consolation in prayer and aspiration, and holy self-destruction here, at the twelfth station? |
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These holy warriors, frequently labelled fundamentalists, represent a direct engagement with the modern world rather than a simple repudiation. |
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Will you continue as faithful stewards of the mysteries of God, preaching the Gospel of Christ, and ministering his holy sacraments? |
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He continued to defend the right of Slavs to have liturgies in their own language and read the holy books in this language too. |
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The palace and the king also attracted many holy relics whose number and quality bestowed prestige and authority on their owner. |
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He had a profoundly religious nature and built the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, to house holy relics brought from Constantinople. |
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The holy relic is believed to protect the 25 sq. km. former Portuguese colony, on the doorstep of China, from natural disasters. |
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These holy relics were keenly sought after as the people saw their purchase as a way of pleasing God. |
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He could invoke saints and employ relics, sprinkle holy water and exorcise the devil. |
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The Holy Ghost has made you so holy that you don't need penance or the sacrament? |
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Here too were the holy relics of colonial Ireland passing through closure into our new present. |
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The doctors who were tending to the Pope during his final hours are auctioning off a sample of the Pope's blood as a holy relic. |
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Pilgrimages to the sites of miracles and holy relics grew ever more popular, and the number of such places increased. |
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The grave was then dug, if this had not already been done, and sanctified by a priest with holy water and incense. |
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Our holy and glorious temple, where our fathers praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins. |
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God created every human being to fulfill a purpose that is both holy and productive. |
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At the same time, it opens you to a respect and a reverence in fact, for what is true and holy in other religions. |
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Iraq's most influential holy man returned to Najaf today in a bid to make peace. |
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What I want to see are holy bishops who take seriously the spiritual condition of both the victims and the accused. |
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Surely our leaders would be better engaged to remove all traces of film music from our holy places rather than chasing female marathon runners. |
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What do the lives and service of holy women teach us about ordaining women? |
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Death in a holy cause could wash away the shame of divorce, infertility, or promiscuity. |
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When a keen reader writes about their reading, they are opening a window into their soul, and inviting you to step inside and share a holy thing. |
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After we were married, she continued to go to church while I stayed home and burned sweet grass and tried to be an Indian holy man. |
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The Hindu holy men personally served food, mainly fruits and yogurts, to the guests. |
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These lingams come only from the Narmada River, high in the mountains of Mandhata, one of the 7 sacred holy places of pilgrimage in India. |
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By doing this they will ensure that the sacredness and sanctity of these holy places is preserved and respected. |
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The notion that Jerusalem is holy to all three monotheistic religions of the Middle East is a statement of fact. |
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The Hopis addressed the sacredness of the holy mountain, and the bureaucrats focused on how much space religious freedom required. |
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Mass begins with the archbishop walking through the aisles, sprinkling holy water left and right. |
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Along with the atrocity of holy wars, there are other questionable things such as sexism, racism and homophobia. |
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I dedicate my monthly links list to the memory of Pope John Paul II, a holy man with attitude. |
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A special blessing is pronounced before entering the mikva, emphasizing the holy nature of this precept. |
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I have a memory of being splattered with holy water but I might have made that up. |
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Priests, acolytes and choirboys pad round a central tent that represents the holy of holies, the spiritual home of the Ark. |
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If you looked at our itinerary you'd think we were bouncing from quoit to holy well to stone circle and you wouldn't be far wrong. |
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But in the holy dance, wearers of old-style folk attire were still a minority. |
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Like ancient sages, the pundits pore over the details of Gordon Brown's speech and the related Budget documents as if they were holy texts. |
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I once wrote a job description for the papacy and said the pope should be a hopeful, holy man who smiles. |
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Each house and shop set up altars in their doorways or windows with religious statues or holy pictures mixed with fresh flowers. |
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Only those entering holy orders were allowed to study theology and delve into Holy Writ. |
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Bradley held the crucifix in one hand and sprinkled holy water on the altar. |
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Somehow, though, the body and its components have recently gained the holy quality previously reserved for saintly relics. |
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There will be monks blessing ceremonies in the morning, and the pouring of holy water on the palms of the elderly. |
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We give thanks for those whose gifts and labours have helped rebuild this holy place and to make it again an image of the glory of heaven. |
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Three of the employees, who are Muslims refused to shave because it was holy month of Ramadan. |
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He put the turban upon his head and set the gold rosette as symbol of holy dedication on the front of the turban as the Lord had commanded him. |
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The happy couple received the traditional pouring of holy water by family, friends and many well-wishers. |
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It soon spread throughout Punjab, and the fourth guru, Ram Das, established the holy city of Amritsar. |
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The holy book was enjoined upon the Sikhs as the eternal and spiritual Guru by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and the last Sikh guru. |
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In the ancient times each of the items corresponded to one of the seven creations and the seven holy immortals protecting them. |
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On this day, churchgoers often take a bottle of holy water to their homes, where it is kept until the following year. |
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On the morning of the fourth day we went to divine service together, were all and equally blessed and sprinkled with holy water. |
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The coffin is then lowered into the grave, and soil sprinkled with holy water is tossed on top of the coffin. |
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The talk was of victories and defeats, of holy war and martyrs, of betrayal and the punishments for traitors to the cause. |
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His act of praying transforms the cityscape into a sacred space and holy ground. |
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Once inside the basilica, John Paul's body was placed on a platform before the main altar and was again blessed with holy water and incense. |
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This is a nation of museums and patents, timeless holy sites and ground-breaking innovation. |
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A priest sprinkles holy water on an infant's head, chanting as he does so. |
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At the Dawn Temple a saffron robed monk sprinkled us with holy water and tied yellow string around our wrists in exchange for a donation in his bowl. |
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Twenty-five years ago, when the Church of Ireland in Mullafarry was closed, the holy water font was given to the Presbyterarian church for safe keeping. |
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For Jarvis, however, the only holy presence looking out for them is Shackleton. |
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Undertaking religious pilgrimage is a seen as a meritorious practice since it focuses the mind on places associated with the Buddha, saintly people, or holy objects. |
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As a Hindu I am proud to subscribe to a creed that is free of the restrictive dogmas of holy writ that refuses to be shackled to the limitations of a single holy book. |
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It just so happened that my trip coincided with the holy month of Ramadan. |
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It's also entirely likely that we have not come of age and I might be the forefather of a hundred generations of priests designated the holy task of worshipping the artefacts. |
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There was a hymn to Mithra in the Zarathustrian holy work, the Avesta. |
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In Scotland too, holy wells in remote places attracted the attentions of Presbyterian devotees, often despite the baleful stares of ordained Kirk ministers. |
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The holy grail for a curler, equivalent to a seven-ball victory in pool, is to have all eight stones nearer to the house than your opposition but such instances are very rare. |
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In fact, the fury she unleashed upon the itinerant priest who administered her last rites had sprung from the failure of his holy water to shrink the tumor in her gut. |
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When an Eastern Orthodox cleric visited Italy in 1438, he complained about how Western artists painted their holy men. |
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And, holy tarnation, to get to the town of Wayne you gotta cross eleven bridges and be able to spit directly upon a scorpion from high atop yer horse. |
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In India, tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims jostled to take holy baths in the sacred River Ganges after performing special prayers for ancestors during the eclipse. |
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When a temporary lifting of the curfew was announced in Jenin on the fourth day of the holy month of Ramadan in November 2002, the happiest of all were the children. |
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However, he goes on to suggest that merely because these views are expressed in a religion's holy book, it is not fair to assume that all religious leaders accept them. |
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He was a very holy person who had a real interest in people. |
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And within the latter community there are deep divisions, many due to the further attempt to discriminate between those who are or are not holy or Spirit-filled. |
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Real prayer isn't about showing how good, holy or spiritual you are. |
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As a result my picture hopefully has a holy spiritual quality. |
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So he had to be pretty sharp and he fell in love with a girl who he thought he was going to spend a weekend with, it happened to a lot of people, holy God, he was hooked. |
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For men, a middle name is given by the lama, a Buddhist holy man. |
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With the canonisation of the Confessor in 1161, his regalia gained the status of holy relics, further increasing the veneration with which they were regarded. |
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The Italian urban landscape was filled with shrines, relics, icons, and various forms of religious theatre that brought the holy directly into the lives of people. |
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A statue showing Medea about to slaughter her children symbolizes the reproof of infanticide. In this case, death is clearly shown as a contained force, even a holy force. |
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In this home of the Dinetah, or Navajo holy land, as well as Anasazi cultural sites dating back 10,000 years, modern energy companies have engaged in a ruinous dig-a-thon. |
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Its forces are the only military allowed near the capital, Riyadh, and the two holy cities of Mecca and medina. |
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This weekend the UN General Assembly begins another session with many of the main protagonists taking part and in the week ahead the holy fast of Ramadan will begin. |
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The stage is constantly transformed, becoming family home, schoolroom, holy well, bog, farmland, graveyard and London street, without a single invasive scene change. |
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Her Mormon boyfriend, stricken with guilt, takes her to meet his bishop, where they jointly receive holy contempt. |
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He claims he is a medium for holy spirits who talk to him in their dreams. |
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The holy scriptures enjoin that people should have a holy dip in the Krishna, offer charity and perform oblations to gods in memory of their ancestors. |
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The pope in his distinguishing robe and tiara carries a monstrance containing the holy Eucharist, as clerics process before him and the laity behind. |
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Sri Lankans observe a strict religious edict that forbids them to play sports during a full moon, a holy day for the island country's Buddhist majority. |
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In other words, we are not as vulnerable to the whims of sheiks, mullahs, and deranged holy men as we once were. |
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References to holy war are interspersed with exhortations to charity, kindness toward others, and respect for life. |
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I feel like a dunce in this company, until I get talking to some of my mates in the group who share a lot of my frustrations and aspirations, and are a holy if unruly group. |
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When we act in a holy way, sanctifying His Name and creation itself, then, the Presence of God becomes more accessible to man, and nature stands aside for God. |
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For the holy month culminates in a prescribed annual almsgiving, amounting to a tax on one's wealth and property, to be distributed in the coming year to those in need. |
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The bargeman took Lynette's sack, containing her holy book, her change of clothes, and her comb that she had smuggled in, and placed it onto the shore of the dock. |
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Never was any bearer of this holy labarum injured during fights. |
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And if you work in the medical profession, you might wonder why hospitals have gone from holy places of professionals and passion to hotbeds of tomfoolery in popular culture. |
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How dare you desecrate this holy ground with foolish intentions. |
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Now, the holy men may have to go back and have another ceremony to repurify the site and undo the influences of the protester's ritual, Mr. Wesley said. |
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Securing awe and applaud from people standing on both sides of the road, the procession moved on to the holy shrine carrying the shawls with utmost respect. |
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Muslims also pray in mosques on Friday, their holy day of the week. |
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To be sure, there is more than enough reality to make the pursuit of peace hit any number of walls, both holy and unholy ones. |
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Another faction wants to baptize people by dumping buckets of holy water on them as they ride the log flume under a walk-way at a local theme park. |
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Among them were an 11th century grave cover, a Norman window head and a holy water stoup, which provide evidence that Burnsall had a stone church in the 11th century. |
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A factory document of 1743 reveals that a series of holy water stoups had been commissioned by the nuns in the Royal Convent of Unshod Carmelites in Madrid. |
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The newcomers, while likely to baulk at a holy dress little distinguished from heathen bests, proved receptive to clean-cut neo-traditional ensembles. |
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The relation between the body of Christ which is the holy Eucharist and the body of Christ which is his Church passes through the sacrament of holy orders. |
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They sing songs and recite prayers in order to maintain the holy balance of nature between Father Sun and Mother Ocean. |
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In case you're not familiar with them, reliquaries were more commonly used in the Middle Ages to house bones and other relics of saints and holy people. |
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Disguised first as a horse dealer and later as a holy man, he successfully blarneyed his way through regions, which were not a part of British-held India at the time. |
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The visual stimulation of this wall of images finds a serene counterpart in a small room opening to the right, re-creating the devotional sanctum of a Mouride holy man. |
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She blessed the holy stink of bleach for cleaning linen and her hands, stripping them of blood and urine, the slow leaks of bodies giving up the ghost and flesh together. |
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I recently had an opportunity to test out some of these suspicions during a trip to Iraq and the Iraqi holy city of Najaf. |
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We should remember that holy men have always possessed good noses for wine. |
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From the point of view of those not observing the holy day, it should be business as usual here at the Frum blog. |
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Christmas morning, Nathan Deuel talked to refugees cautiously observing the holy day. |
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Many of the plots are fresh, dedicated to locals who died fighting their holy war against U.S. and Afghan troops. |
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To whom will the establishment hand the silver cross and vial of holy water? |
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Undefended Buddhist monasteries, often containing valuable treasures, proved irresistible targets to raiders bent on booty in the name of holy war. |
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Gowri bemoans of her action of coming into physical contact with Gange, a lower caste woman, and decides to purify herself by taking bath in holy water. |
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Nizari Ismailis follow Aga Khan as their leader and celebrate his birthday as a holy day rather than the Muharram, which most of the Shiites celebrate. |
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It's a show whose plot is almost undescribable, but it had a high gag count and included physical, visual and pun-related humour a holy trinity indeed! |
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The festivities for Ramadan Bairam begin after the end of the holy month. |
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To me this place is holy and this ritual sacred, but strangely, however close I feel to Vivian, I feel distant from God. |
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The novice traveler often must undergo tests or challenges, but the experienced holy person is familiar with the road and the terrain and encounters no such problems. |
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In obedience to the command of the most holy Theotokos, the evangelist wrote down this teaching about the mystery of the Holy Trinity, afterward granting it also to Gregory. |
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He is a prig, a holy terror, a self-absorbed, insensitive pain. |
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For the first six centuries of its existence, Cambridge, like Oxford, was a seminary, and until 1871 fellows were required to be celibates in holy orders. |
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Getting beyond the first stage of a major tournament is the holy grail. |
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In his stage show Ken tries to find out the meaning of life and continues his search for the holy grail of comedy, the state of mind in which everything is funny. |
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Getting something for nothing is the holy grail of the consumer. |
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The sight of a holy man, who seemed peaceful and content, finally inspired him to forsake palace, wife and family and become a wandering mendicant. |
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In this ceremony which literally means joining of hands the bride's right hand is placed on that of the groom whilst the priest chants holy verses. |
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It was laid by the monks themselves, and the church at the top was a chapel of ease, where pilgrims would rest on the way to seeing Hailes's phial of holy blood. |
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He said this cross was built in the 1950s to mark a holy year. |
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According to tradition, the table talk should include religious discussion and consideration of holy texts. |
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Religious articles, holy books, brass lamps, candle stands, incense holders, scented candles and perfume diffusers are also turning out to be much valued presents. |
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So this is the holy of holies, where only the coach and the players come. |
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In the open, in front of this unlikely holy of holies, are a few rows of hard wooden benches, from which time has long since eroded the protection of varnish. |
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Each chapter includes guidelines for special holy days and festivals, births, initiation ceremonies, funerals and mourning, and home celebrations. |
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In 622 AD the Prophet Mohammed launched his holy war against the infidel. |
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A priest comes to the house to bless it with holy water and incense. |
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I raised the flask of holy water to his lips and let him drink. |
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And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. |
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Only men are allowed to take holy orders, although deaconesses had both liturgical and pastoral functions within the church. |
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But in his second online thriller The Glorious Twelfth, Calder twists Brown's plot to suggest the holy relic is buried elsewhere in Scotland. |
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I attended a worship service where I was astounded to see holy rollers convulsing on the floor and speaking in tongues. |
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She's such a holy roller that she steers every conversation around to the joys of religion. |
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We did a black light search with this torch and black light and holy mackerel, honestly, it was like a galaxy. |
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Both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities consider the monastery a holy place. |
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Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy soared like a supersonic swallow around Japan's holy Mount Fuji in his custom-built jet suit. |
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In a parallel way, when you came up from the font and its holy waters, you received chrismation and the mark with which Christ was chrismated. |
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He was more dangerous than the plump satisfied ones, he was so sure of the value of his witchcraft, the holy oils and chrisms and unctions. |
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The ministry official affirmed that Jordan will continue its custodianships of these holy places, mainly Al Aqsa Mosque. |
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One, two, three, four were left in the wake of this Killie adventurer until, holy mackerel, there was the keeper racing out. |
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She worked with Kate Winslet on holy smoke and Nicole Kidman. |
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Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation. |
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It was visited as holy ground by many commoners until King Henry caught wind of it. |
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The continual study of black holes may even lead the way to that holy grail of modern physics, a theory of quantum gravity. |
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A glob of pea green toadling spit splattered against my upraised arm, burning like holy hell. |
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Mary's thistle, milk thistle, holy thistle, old lady's thistle, lady's thistle, Mary thistle, Marian thistle, true thistle, Carduus marianus. |
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Where God is worshipped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. |
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For the most part, leisure and festivities took place on a public church holy day. |
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The modern bastardization of that holy profession, however, is what is thematic in the novel. |
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The face of ultra-conservative rabbi Abraham Eidelmann appears enwreathed by the holy books that line his study's bookcases. |
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Sermons were appointed and required to be read each Sunday and holy day in English. |
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The Guru Grant Sahib is the holy scripture of the Sikhs, and regarded as the living Guru. |
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And thus the wars they beginne, Whereof the holy church is taxed, That in the point, as it is axed, The disme go'th to the battaile. |
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The conflict is beginning to look like a holy war between Sunnis and Shias. |
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Second, upon entrance to Knox College and attendance at Knox Spadina, I experienced holy communion by intinction. |
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Palaeography can provide access to this scribal culture, showing the human hand behind what came to be regarded as holy texts. |
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Matthew, and the late antique History of the Rechabites, attributed to a holy man by the name of Zosimus. |
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People play holy by drinking the cannabis laden yogurt drink and they also have betel leaf. |
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