Sentence examples for altar according from inspiring English sources

Hollywood couples were leading the post-9/11 charge to the altar, according to media accounts.

Most visitors to the Church of the Nativity head straight for the grotto beneath the altar where, according to tradition, Jesus was born 2014 years ago.

A human scythe bedecked with yards of brocade, elaborate turbans and unlikely jewellery, she made an extraordinary sight: "a high altar on the move", according to Elizabeth Bowen.

To put it mildly, I would not like it if some cranky chicks broke into a church while I was there and started running around the altar," Mr. Navalny wrote, according to the Interfax news agency.

The 40-year-old accuser, identified as John Doe No. 26, said he was abused by the priest, the Rev. Anthony Mercieca, in the 1970's at the age of 12 or 13 when he was an altar boy in Miami, according to a lawsuit filed against the Archdiocese of Miami.

Mitchell, who grew up as an altar boy in Louisiana, according to an obituary, had a habit of stealing inexpensive items as a teenager.

This counts for little at the altar of political expediency, however, according to Kapya Kaoma, an Episcopal priest from Zambia, and religion and sexuality researcher at the US-based thinktank Political Research Associates.

In Indo-European civilizations the essential element of the sacred furniture is the altar, the site of which varies according to the cult and period under consideration.

The historic crucifix, made in Italy, was first erected over the altar of the church in 1907, according to the church's website.

In the event, only some important stones the altar, the stone where Jesus Christ descended according to tradition, and Armenian Church's holiest relic, the Right Arm of Gregory the Illuminator were moved to New Julfa, Isfahan in central Iran.

Emanuel has retained its original altar, Communion rail, pews and light fixtures, according to the National Park Service.