Sentence examples for consecrated him from inspiring English sources

When he was 2 days old, he said, his mother consecrated him to God's service.

So great was his success that he was called to Rome, where Gregory consecrated him a missionary bishop.

Gregory consecrated him in November at Lyon, where he resigned as minister general of the Franciscans in May 1274.

Otto subsequently gave Gerbert the headship of the wealthy monastery of St. Columban of Bobbio (southwest of Piacenza, Italy), and Benedict VII consecrated him abbot of the monastery.

The current and former presiding bishops of the Episcopal Church were among the more than three dozen bishops who encircled Bishop Robinson last November and consecrated him with a laying on of hands.

In Jenkins' case, an Essex vicar raised £2,000 from his scandalised congregation to mount a campaign against Jenkins getting the job; the archbishop of York, John Habgood, went ahead and consecrated him a bishop anyway – and three days later York Minster was struck by lightning.

The Third Republic, eager to acquire ancestors, exalted Carnot's memory, consecrating him as "the Organizer of Victory".

As a result, Lanfranc refused to consecrate him.

Thomas declined to make such a written promise, so Lanfranc refused to consecrate him.

If a priest is elected, the Cardinal Dean consecrates him bishop; if a layman is elected, then the Cardinal Dean first ordains him deacon, then priest, and only then consecrates him as bishop.

Intensely, passionately my being went out to his, consecrating him in my living breast, yearning to eternalise him.