The faces and hands of the saints are beautifully modeled, expressive, and elegant. |
|
Christ will return secretly to rapture his saints before the great tribulation. |
|
The cult of the saints began with the earliest martyrs, who had certainly proved their wholeheartedness. |
|
As a young materialist it mattered to me that we too have our ancient texts, our saints and sages, wise men and good news. |
|
He is beloved of the Father, beloved of the angels, beloved of the saints in heaven. |
|
The Iconoclasts believed that the display of images of God or other Holy persons or saints was blasphemous idol worshipping. |
|
So all believers are saints in the sense that they have been set aside by God for his own use. |
|
They could not consistently admit the resurrection and glorification, either of the saints or of Jesus' body. |
|
Methodism and Salvationism were born in revival, a revival concerned with saving sinners and making saints out of converts. |
|
When slaves were drumming and dancing in the cabildos, Spanish colonial masters thought that they were honouring the saints. |
|
There have been great saints and mahatmas in the past, who replied thus even to emperors and monarchs. |
|
Female saints were also represented as visionaries, martyrs, and reformers. |
|
Even then, long after the defeat of the saints, the myth of the coming catastrophe and reformation is never dead and forgotten. |
|
The images of the beloved saints, moreover, served as conduits of salvific grace. |
|
The custom of erecting stupas over the remains of great saints and lamas also continued in Tibet. |
|
He could invoke saints and employ relics, sprinkle holy water and exorcise the devil. |
|
I'm hardly an authority on saints, or irony, but am I right in thinking that, before he got religion, St. Andrew was a Middle Eastern fisherman? |
|
To be an encourager, is to be the Holy Spirit's chosen instrument to minister God's grace to his often beleaguered saints. |
|
Not all of us are stainless saints capable of locating sin entirely outside ourselves. |
|
In this case, we are treating women like they are saints, angels, or paragons of virtue. |
|
|
By good people I don't mean saints or angels, but people who, for all their complexity, want to do the right thing. |
|
This is based on references in Irish hagiography to belts having been preserved as relics of the saints who wore them. |
|
But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type. |
|
At the zenith the trigram IHS appears, surrounded by saints and angels on zigzag over-solid clouds. |
|
In July, a group of Jain saints carrying a Jain icon for installation at the prayer hall was stopped from proceeding toward Badrinath. |
|
Logically, one would think that the church would embrace this opportunity and seize the chance to equip the saints for the work of the Kingdom. |
|
Later, we will learn that the halos worn by saints in devotional art are based on the depiction of the divine in Egyptian art. |
|
The artist drew on religious imagery of martyred saints to depict new political martyrs. |
|
The religiosity at the core of his films has always transformed his leading ladies into masochistic saints at best, abused playthings at worst. |
|
Scroll paintings called tanka that depicted the various gods and saints of Lamaist Buddhism decorated every temple. |
|
Facing the altar, the reredos overwhelm the viewer's vision with rows upon rows of imposing carved saints and prophets. |
|
But what strikes most visitors is the dramatic altar and reredos, or carved altarpiece, with tall statues of saints backed by scarlet curtains. |
|
Thus the brother, perusing the books of many saints like a clever bee, culled the flowers of divine quotations. |
|
Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Apostles, saints, angels and religious events are depicted. |
|
Many times in my life, I have heard Perpetua and Felicity mentioned in litanies of saints and prayers of the Church. |
|
The new religions exalt secular saints, enforce dogma, punish heretics, value self-sacrifice, and sanctify writings. |
|
This catalyzed the retrieval of these women as theologians-not simply as saints honored for their piety or mystics gazed upon with curiosity. |
|
Most religious painting of the time depicted the Holy family or the saints in a contrived, idealised way, full of piety and grace. |
|
In other words, once we are in heaven with all the saints, all temptations and all desires for sin will be done away with. |
|
There are four periods of fasting and saint's days in honor of the three hundred Orthodox saints. |
|
|
There are no formulary Baroque madonnas, prettily ornamental angels, or idealized saints here. |
|
Wherever we have this problem, we should improve it, through sant, satsang and shastra saints, religious gathering and scripture. |
|
Women who practiced this act of sati were revered as saints and stone sati memorials exist in Rajasthan. |
|
The case may be illuminated by taking up the familiar parallel between the Greek heroes and the saints of early Christendom. |
|
My grandfather though, was a muralist in Ireland and he worked painting the saints and religious scenes in churches across the land. |
|
In this image, the bishop carries a monstrance under the shelter of a portable baldachin decorated with the images of various saints and martyrs. |
|
It was celebrated with bonfires, parades and people dressing up as saints, angels and devils. |
|
The great mystics and saints have told us that the spiritual journey does include a kind of retreat from the world. |
|
Over the ages, the weeping of tears has been a sign of the mystical experiences of saints and repentant sinners. |
|
This special form of astrology, we're told, was written by saints and seers thousands of years ago. |
|
I am reasonably sure the statement would also rule invalid the ordinations of several canonized saints. |
|
But even this icon differs fundamentally from ours because it typifies the tradition of frontally standing saints followed in menologia. |
|
Local village life is marked by celebrations honoring the saints and the Virgin Mary. |
|
But our Hindu saints and swamis come and deliver lectures and go back to their native countries and ashrams with whatever money is given to them. |
|
According to sacred lore, most of Bhutan's gods were subdued by early Buddhist saints. |
|
The central panel of this intact triptych altarpiece depicts the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, together with other saints, flanked by donors. |
|
Guru Nanak Dev, founder of the Sikhs, is said to have been influenced by both Hindu and Sufi saints. |
|
Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, was one of the greatest saints of India, who laid the foundation for universal brotherhood. |
|
Each city in Nicaragua has its own patron saint and some saints may be shared between towns. |
|
Among such passageways is the imitation of idolaters or of the followers of other religions who have exaggerated respect for their saints. |
|
|
There are other quirky problems surrounding the phenomenon of incorrupt bodies of saints. |
|
Offerings and gifts are made to saints and protective spirits for favors in this life. |
|
Sometimes it helps to have another person pray with us or to have the elders of the church pray for us during the assembly of the saints. |
|
His aggressive editing preserves the grungy feel of rock and roll even as it affectionately perverts the work of one of its saints. |
|
And when they are shown they are either precocious brats or philosophy-spouting saints. |
|
Large structures resembling churches with niches for life-like marble statues of the saints may be found in Metairie Cemetery. |
|
Paintings on each column bordering the central nave depict saints who were venerated in medieval times. |
|
Of all the saints venerated by the French in the nineteenth century, Mary was the most prominent. |
|
Hinduism asserts that all ways of belief are equally valid, and Hindus readily venerate the saints, and the sacred objects, of other faiths. |
|
She was thus the first among the long list of saints who preached medieval mysticism which later enwrapped the whole of India. |
|
Local saints are frequently included, as well as figures of general importance, apostles, and doctors of the Church. |
|
Charles bridge is decorated by an alley of 30 statues and statuaries depicting saints on bridge piers. |
|
Among the classically inspired statuary, saints, such as St. Fiacre, the patron saint of gardeners, are popular, Galvan says. |
|
Judaism does not canonize people as saints nor does it demand the performance of miracles from its heroes. |
|
However, today, any sacred meaning in them has been transferred to the saints and Catholicized ceremony. |
|
There is a yet deeper dimension of hiddenness in the isolated experience of certain writers and saints. |
|
Again, the great hymnographers, themselves saints, show a wonderful concentration of prophecy and fulfillment. |
|
In the past, especially the distant past, the saints were venerated as prodigies, miracle-workers, intercessors, protectors. |
|
A convinced anticlerical, he regarded all saints and visionaries as hysterics. |
|
White, blue, purple, and scarlet were the colors of the gods, priests, profligates, saints and monarchs, either in combination or singularly. |
|
|
Emile Durkheim pointed out long ago that even a society of saints would produce its deviants. |
|
Some are called to sow, others to reap some are eminently qualified to awaken sinners, others to edify saints. |
|
Second, however theoretical a work was at times, classical theologians ever retained their pastoral eye for the way doctrine edifies the saints. |
|
In its original form, this involved saints like Columba taking to his coracle, trusting the waves to carry him wherever they might. |
|
The study of the live of the saints, necessary to assess sanctity, needs its own method. |
|
It produces something similar to the illusions and hallucinations that beset lonely wanderess and seafearess and saints. |
|
We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics. |
|
Further, the use of apostrophe in the form of direct addresses to the saints creates the impression of direct communication. |
|
Belief in a future millennium either preceding or following the second coming of Christ, when he will reign on earth in a kingdom of his saints. |
|
The grisaille paintings portray archivolt figures as well as saints in scenes which parallel the main motifs. |
|
The liturgical changes were an expression and a promise of the communion of saints. |
|
The proliferation of narrowly based mutual aid societies and festas honoring local patron saints were manifestations of these tendencies. |
|
We hear of these wild, vagrant saints, rather along the lines of John the Baptist. |
|
These saints are our brothers and sisters in the Lord, and many of their life stories have been etched into our minds. |
|
Discussion ranges from monastic confraternities to miracle stories and the pious legends of saints. |
|
A long time ago, when I heard him speak, he said, set yourselves apart from this corrupt generation, be saints. |
|
Today, religion is a private matter, politicians are not expected to be saints and the church is a spent political force. |
|
Most of the early medieval saints were bishops, abbots, and abbesses with an impeccable social pedigree. |
|
Yes, she has a black cat, a wand, a sword, altars with candies, and statues of gods, goddesses, and saints. |
|
His other sculptures are figures of saints, the Holy Virgin, Christ and of ordinary people. |
|
|
Timothy trod in his footsteps, and loved to care for the saints, but he could not say this of all. |
|
A number of Franciscan saints are also depicted on the ceiling of the apse. |
|
Monks promoted the cult of their own saints and could write disparagingly of others. |
|
It pleased the Father that for all saints and sinners all fullness should be treasured up in Christ Jesus. |
|
I would like to say that he was an emperor amongst the present galaxy of saints. |
|
Churches were increasingly dedicated to, and children named after, universal saints. |
|
On each of its four facades is the now famous and often parodied inscription a nation of poets, artists, heroes, saints, thinkers, scientists, navigators, and transmigrators. |
|
These women interred the bodies of saints on their own properties and occasionally managed to influence papal politics. |
|
Towering over the remote monastery at Masham there was even a triumphal column celebrating not the victories of kings but of Christ and his saints. |
|
Icons depicting the Virgin Mary and the saints are widely venerated, and the faithful light candles, pray, bow, and sometimes weep before these sacred images. |
|
Some continued in use well into the first millennium AD, and were perhaps amongst the first settlements encountered by the incoming early Celtic saints. |
|
On February 14th is celebrated the feast of two saints named Valentine. |
|
Kelly draws up a large, impressive, even diverse, cast of Irish cops and gunrunners, Italian mobsters and mistresses, Russian immigrants and killers, saints and scoundrels. |
|
At the end of the millennial reign, Satan will be loosed and a massive rebellion against the kingdom and a fierce assault against Christ and His saints will occur. |
|
She was the epitome of all Rubensian models and appears in many of his late works, not only in portraits but in the guise of various saints and deities. |
|
Among the most vibrant evidence for the cult of the saints are the ex-voto gifts left in thanksgiving by pilgrims whose prayers had been answered. |
|
If the daises behind the saints are in the same form as that of the Virgin Mary, it suggests that these four saints have a special relationship with her, be it temporal or spiritual. |
|
Indeed, they frequently serve as frames or cartouches for coats of arms, personal devices, or statues of patron saints venerated by religious institutions. |
|
There is a mosaic in Ravenna portraying saints, martyrs, hierarchs, and faithful laity, each of them holding a crown that they will place at the feet of Christ. |
|
Milton had no doubt that God, Divine Providence and History itself had willed that the saints prevail over the King and his Anglicans, panders and sycophants. |
|
|
A kind-hearted innocent with a passion for the lives of the saints, Damian is playing in his own cardboard sanctuary when a bag falls from the heavens. |
|
If you think that demonic powers are present at the moment, just wait until the saints have been raptured away and Satan and his armies have taken full control of the earth. |
|
Traditional statuettes of saints stand under vaulted, traceried canopies. |
|
Still, it must be remembered that the truly ecumenical councils of the first millennium produced great and charismatic saints to guide the church. |
|
I am only repeating what saints and mahatmas have said in the past. |
|
Almost every church would also have had side altars, dedicated to individual saints or, quite commonly, to the Virgin, often in a Lady chapel named after her. |
|
As the importance of saints and their relics increased, reliquaries and image-bearing objects, such as small statues, began to be placed upon the altar. |
|
Based on her hagiographical work, she has put together a single volume which contains forty biographical sketches of female saints from antiquity to the present. |
|
Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even. |
|
And saints are a pretty svelte bunch, what with all the fasting and suffering. |
|
Also among the rich assortment of intriguing pieces that fill each page are panels dating from c.1600, decorated with saints standing beneath baldacchinos. |
|
Hindus do not bury their dead, except infant children and godly saints. |
|
Tales and legends dealt with the doings of kings, contests between knights and dragons, and the exploits of ancient robbers and bandits as well as with the lives of saints. |
|
In the 8th century Pope Boniface IV designated November 1st as All Saints' Day, to honour those saints that didn't have a special day of their own. |
|
In the 2000 ceremony, to make up for lost time, the Church created 860 additional saints, making this by far the biggest cannonade of saints ever set off in Russia. |
|
Hope is the bridge from this age, in which God has given the saints the medicine for their cure, to that coming age in which they no longer will be convalescents. |
|
Until 1978 the Church of latter-day saints would not ordain men of African descent into the priesthood. |
|
Of course, not all latter-day saints are eager to accept science on the same plane as God-given, capital-T truth. |
|
Incidentally, it is widely believed that the anthelion is the origin of the tradition of painting a halo around the head of saints in Western art. |
|
Moreover, the very preoccupation of communities with staving off God's wrath and propitiating the saints heightened their concern with the modalities of worship. |
|
|
In each auxiliary altar, diptychs display the most prominent saints. |
|
This they affirmed to be the very body of Christ, the locus of holiness, the society of saints, guaranteed by the unquestioned apostolic succession of their bishops. |
|
Twenty-one solemn pieces and invocations to 95 saints were sung by a male soloist and the responses were delivered pitch perfect by a practised congregation. |
|
Bound in the flayed skin of 100 saints and penned with the blood of virgins, this sinister and forbidden occult text is an item of incredible power. |
|
Blogs range from offering recipes to requests for prayers, to moving spiritual reflections and writings about saints to polemics about political correctness in the pulpit. |
|
The cult of saints and their relics explains the popularity of pilgrimage. |
|
I thank God for the many blessings I have already received from his generous love, and look forward to the day when I can glorify him with you and all the saints in heaven. |
|
She has been one of the most venerated saints of the modern era. |
|
When the saints in heaven act, it is God who acts through them. |
|
It's creative, loving orthodoxy as it has been taught and modeled by the saints and by our Holy Pope, John Paul, in the image and spirit of Jesus Christ. |
|
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. |
|
While I do think the saints have spiritual maturity, often very saintly people and profoundly religious people struggle with other personality conflicts. |
|
Besides heavily ornate vestments, stoles, monstrance, pulpits, bells, paintings, representations of the Way of the Cross and statues of saints are among the major attractions. |
|
Emphasis on the sanctity of the human body can also be seen in the cult of the martyrs and saints, in which bodily remains are imbued with divine power. |
|
The film deals with saints, marvels and even miracles and through this you are reminded that there is more to life than money and just making as much of it as possible. |
|
The life-size crosses and figures of saints were one of the great forms of benefaction in the eleventh century and are described in churches across England. |
|
And then, if Pope Francis is still with us, we may well see the leftist saints come marching in. |
|
Today, though he loves solitude, he also enjoys interacting daily with the many saints, sages, swamis, scholars and writers who visit the monastery. |
|
It depicts stained glass images of the Bruce flanked by his chief men, Christ, and saints associated with Scotland. |
|
For Tamil-speaking Vaishnavas, the verses of the 12 saints known asentire tiruman or Vaishnava caste mark that only men wear. |
|
|
Labour proposed the creation of four new bank holidays, marking the feast days of the patron saints of the United Kingdom's constituent nations. |
|
Most of them are dedicated to their founders, who hailed from local dynasties and were venerated as patron saints. |
|
Many Cornish saints are commemorated also in Devon in legends, churches and placenames. |
|
Inscriptions on scrolls held by the various saints all relate to the immaculacy Of the Virgin and her power to redeem from sin. |
|
Religious festivals, patron saints and traditional holidays mark the Azorean calendar. |
|
These saints, often with close royal links, include Guthlac, Etheldreda, Pega, and Wendreda. |
|
George's feast day in England was no different from the numerous saints on the liturgical calendar until the Late Middle Ages. |
|
Saint Columba is one of the three chief saints of Ireland, after Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid of Kildare. |
|
Ireland's patron saints are Saint Patrick, Saint Bridget and Saint Columba. |
|
Around the twelfth century, the idea of prostitute saints took hold, with Mary Magdalene being one of the most popular saints of the era. |
|
There are also lessons appointed for the feast days of numerous saints and commemorations. |
|
In the lives of saints and martyrs, the druids are represented as magicians and diviners. |
|
The saints, although they would have had to have been hundreds of years old, looked as if they had just died. |
|
Since glory is as bonifiable as it is intelligible, the saints in glory are glorified as much through bonifying as through understanding. |
|
The most characteristic form of Merovingian literature is represented by the Lives of the saints. |
|
Michael Medved on growing acceptance of the Church of latter-day saints. |
|
But the minni given to gods or saints was only the most prominent instance of this custom, placed at the beginning of the ritual drinking. |
|
All persons currently in heaven are considered to be saints, whether their names are known or not. |
|
There are, however, those saints of distinction whom God has revealed as particularly good examples. |
|
He is also commemorated in common with other saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl on 23 May. |
|
|
Four of them were killed by the Golden Horde and were proclaimed saints by the Russian Orthodox church. |
|
A second smaller procession appeared carrying a feretory with relics of the saints, from which was suspended the sacrament in a pyx. |
|
Samson of Dol, Helier, Marculf and Magloire are among saints associated with the islands. |
|
It appears, as is well known in later times, that noble kin groups had their own patron saints, and their own churches or abbeys. |
|
By tradition Spanish ships were named after saints and usually given nicknames. |
|
The lake was originally named after Saint Bartholomew as this was his saints day. |
|
Santos depict figures of saints and other religious icons and are made from native wood, clay, and stone. |
|
In 1519, Zwingli specifically rejected the veneration of saints and called for the need to distinguish between their true and fictional accounts. |
|
In general Anglicans pray with and for the saints in the fellowship of the saints, not to them, although their intercessions may be requested. |
|
Generally iconostases, pictures or statues of saints are not kept in Marthoma churches. |
|
Many saints canonized by Rome after the 1902 schism are not recognized by the Aglipayan church and its members. |
|
It is thou that inspirest tyrants with rage against the innocent saints of God, and actuatest their hellish cruelty. |
|
The glory of the true saints is indescribable. They are deep like ocean and affulgent like the sun. |
|
This idolatry is the more discernible and aggravable in the invocation of saints and idols. |
|
Churches of the Protestant Reformation, however, rejected prayer to the saints, largely on the basis of the sole mediatorship of Christ. |
|
Ciaran, along with saints Auxilius, Secundinus and Iserninus, are also associated with early churches in Munster and Leinster. |
|
Relatively soon after the death of people considered very holy, the local Church affirmed that they could be liturgically celebrated as saints. |
|
The contacts resulted in a surge in interest in England for commemorating Breton saints. |
|
Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them. |
|
Dedications to many different Cornish saints can also be traced to this period. |
|
|
After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. |
|
Pilgrims would journey to cathedrals that preserved relics of saints, believing that such relics held miraculous powers. |
|
These saints, by the way, do not always preserve after death the mild and martyrsome dispositions that characterized them during life. |
|
The likenesses of saints and angels in frescas and windows evoke respect and drown soul into peace and merciness. |
|
The veneration of some saints, certain pilgrimages and some pilgrim shrines were also attacked. |
|
The liturgies are organised according to the traditional liturgical year and the calendar of saints. |
|
However Edward III promoted St George over the previous national saints of St Edmund, St Edward the Confessor and Saint Gregory the Great. |
|
The feasts of these three saints were made obligatory throughout the Eastern Empire by Leo VI the Wise. |
|
Close to 5,000 Keralites have already left for Rome to be at St Peter's Square when the Pope canonises the two as saints. |
|
The two saints embraced, held long converse, and exchanged their pastoral staves. |
|
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 is also one of the patron saints of the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo although this has been contested. |
|
Thus, physical items connected with saints are also regarded as holy, through their participation in the earthly works of those saints. |
|
Peterskirche, publicly called for the removal of statues of saints and other icons. |
|
Wilfrid was one of the first bishops to bring relics of saints back from Rome. |
|
With Saint Piran and Saint Michael, he is one of the patron saints of Cornwall. |
|
In iconography, like several other British saints, Petroc is usually shown with a stag. |
|
Piran is the most famous of all the saints said to have come to Cornwall from Ireland. |
|
Sikhism, for instance, disagreed with some views of Bhakti saints Kabir and Ravidas. |
|
The number of altars dedicated to saints, who could intercede in this process, also increased dramatically. |
|
|
In the popular mind the saints had come to fill a role that had been played by heroes and deities. |
|
The progression to an increased number of images of saints can be seen in them. |
|
Mariam Bawardy and Marie Alphonsine Ghattas were among four sisters who were made saints at a Mass in St Peter's Square. |
|
Such bas relief coverings usually leave the faces and hands of the saints exposed for veneration. |
|
Most of the decorations around the margins are images of pure fantasy, figures of saints, and naturalistic motifs. |
|
Thomas Aquinas describes the special honour paid to Mary as hyperdulia, that is, a veneration that exceeds that paid to other saints. |
|
In a powerful prayer activity, students are given a saints relic to hold as Angie instructs them to pray for that saints intersession. |
|
Such hagiographical calendars were important in establishing lists of native Irish saints, in imitation of continental calendars. |
|
In the 16th century, Metropolitan Macarius expanded the list of the Rus'ian saints and supervised the compiling process of their life stories. |
|
And when the toyful saints went marching through Presbyterian Valley Hospital on Sunday, parents and children beamed. |
|
The number of saints celebrated in Scotland also proliferated, with about 90 being added to the missal used in St Nicholas church in Aberdeen. |
|
One of the first of the virgin saints to act as an important role model for women was Thecla, the legendary disciple of St Paul. |
|
Before the entrance of the sovereign, the litany of the saints is sung during the procession of the clergy and other dignitaries. |
|
The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian. |
|
Associatism can take the form of venerating trees or the tombs of saints, seeking holy men or soothsayers as intermediaries with God, or putting one's faith in astrology. |
|
Then in verse 29 Jesus says immediately after this thlipsis there will be signs in the heavens, and Jesus returns with His angels to gather his saints. |
|
The Church depends upon those saints who, by lives lived in imitation of Christ, achieving theosis, can serve as reliable witnesses to the Holy Spirit's guidance. |
|
Many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints. |
|
The District Administration, Haridwar have also held a meeting with various group of saints and public representatives to create a consensus on stopping the Jal Samadhis. |
|
In showing the saints this love and requesting their prayers, the Orthodox manifest their belief that the saints thus assist in the process of salvation for others. |
|
|
There also survive biographical Lives of saints of the period, for instance Saint Eligius and Leodegar, written soon after their subjects' deaths. |
|
Due to her unique place in salvation history, Mary is honored above all other saints and especially venerated for the great work that God accomplished through her. |
|
During his reign, the Satyakas, Haris, Viras and others were demigods, the seven great saints were headed by Jyotirdhama, and Trisikha became Indra. |
|
Religious traditions and truths are believed to be contained in its sacred texts, which are accessed and taught by sages, gurus, saints or avatars. |
|
Mary had a single pair of shoes, and books about Jesus and the saints, while Omar was raised in Kensington as an English gentleman by his sophisticated grandmother. |
|
Down the chapel's north and south sides is a collection of saints. |
|
The use of the cross, and of images of Christ, the Virgin Mary and various saints is also attested on seals of officials, but these were personal rather than family emblems. |
|
Other saints may not be identifiable unless labelled with an inscription. |
|
The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar, and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets. |
|
In 1540, Henry sanctioned the complete destruction of shrines to saints. |
|
This unity of the Church is sometimes called the communion of the saints. |
|
A number of legends and hagiographic lives of Breton saints contain references to the close political ties between religious communities in Wales and Brittany. |
|
Chapter 26 presents Reformed teaching on the communion of saints. |
|
The patron saints of Malta are Saint Paul, Saint Publius and Saint Agatha. |
|
Some of these saints are not included in the early lists of saints. |
|
In 1541 Parliament passed legislation to protect the honour of the Mass, prayer to the Virgin Mary, images of the saints, and the authority of the pope. |
|
The outward celebration of saints and holy relics formed no major part of her personal devotions, which she rather expressed in the Mass, prayer, confession and penance. |
|
Lutheran theology differs from Reformed theology in Christology, the purpose of God's Law, the divine grace, the concept of perseverance of the saints, and predestination. |
|
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. |
|
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. |
|
|
As in Cornwall, many Breton towns are named after these early saints. |
|
In hagiography, as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and one of the most prominent military saints, he is immortalised in the myth of Saint George and the Dragon. |
|
Among the topics are his empyreal conceit, private piety in the brief epic Paradise Regained, his genii loci and the medieval saints, and the fate of place in Paradise Lost. |
|
One of the earliest Old English texts in prose is the Martyrology, information about saints and martyrs according to their anniversaries and feasts in the church calendar. |
|
The text spans the entire year and describes the lives of many saints, both English and continental, and hearkens back to some of the earliest saints of the early church. |
|
I might also here tell you of the contests and battles that such are engaged in, wherein they find the besettings of Satan, above any other of the saints. |
|
The window depicts St Michael at the top and nine Cornish saints, Piran, Petroc, Pinnock, Germanus, Julian, Cyriacus, Constantine, Nonna and Geraint in tiers below. |
|
The cult and veneration of saints was still in its infancy at this time, and it has been suggested that Germanus had a hand in creating and promoting the cult of Saint Alban. |
|