At the age of fourteen, he determined to consecrate himself to a life of timely escape.
In the exercise of their power and right of self-government they have committed to one of their fellow-citizens a supreme and sacred trust, and he here consecrates himself to their service.
When Pippin III usurped the office of king, he had himself consecrated first by the bishops of his realm (possibly including Boniface) in 751 and then by the pope in 754.
In the first place, he wanted to be consecrated by the pope himself, so that his coronation should be even more impressive than that of the kings of France.
Pollock, like other doomed artists and martyrs to fame in his era — Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean — advanced and, by destroying himself, oddly consecrated America's postwar cultural ascendancy.
In 311 Caecilian was elected bishop, but he was opposed by many because he allowed himself to be consecrated by a traditor bishop (one who had surrendered copies of Scripture to the authorities during Emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians, beginning in 303).
The Ara Pacis is one of the city's great sights: the great sacrificial altar consecrated by the Emperor Augustus himself in 9 B.C. is enclosed in a magnificent frieze of Roman portraiture at its best.
In 2009, Putin went to consecrate the grave himself.
Sergius, consecrated pope on Jan . 29 904, allied himself with Theophylactus, who became virtual dictator of the papal administration and, through the pope's help, expanded his territorial claims.
