Sentence examples for consecrated to the from inspiring English sources

More consequentially, the festival here is a gathering of the faithful, consecrated to the old-time cinephile religion.

On April 17 , 1607 at the age of 22, he was ordained a priest and was consecrated to the see of Luçon.

In ancient Greece an entire group of offerings (enagismata) was consecrated to the dead; these were libations of milk, honey, water, wine, and oil poured onto the grave.

A place, above all, "consecrated to the idea that the problems of one place are the concerns of every place, in our ever more linked universe".

The painted turrets and onion domes were only a shell; nestled inside the church, like a matryoshka doll's surprise, was a museum consecrated to the subject of science.

In the houses of bishops and clergy, the measure that could have seen the first woman consecrated to the episcopate in 2014 was passed with comfortable majorities.

The numerous great churches of Hagia Sophia, foremost among them the cathedral by that name in Constantinople (Istanbul), are consecrated to that figure of the heavenly Wisdom.

This was an altar consecrated to Clupeus, the god of herring, whose annual festival is celebrated in late spring by herring-lovers the world over.

This place was consecrated to tame the Tiger demon.

On the day of the merger, nine new bishops, drawn from all the traditions, were consecrated to serve with the five Anglican bishops already in office.

At the town of Lavinium, a whole month was consecrated to Liber, and the festival activities there were believed to make the seeds grow.