Sentence examples for consecrates it from inspiring English sources

Eadbald builds a church, and Mellitus consecrates it.

It is believed that the deity partakes of and then returns the offering, thereby consecrating it.

Pope Benedict XVI formally consecrated it as a basilica in November.

Yet like most fundamentalists, they rewrite history even as they consecrate it.

He said he found a sterling silver cup in an antiques shop and consecrated it.

Barbaro said that his mother and father "had the sweat that built America, and they consecrated it with their blood".

With a roof finally in place, Pope Benedict was able to consecrate it as a basilica last year.

And the Roman Catholic authorities were offended by the church's unusual curved concrete form and refused to consecrate it until 1959.

Women, perhaps, want their marriages not to terminate their status as the prize, but to consecrate it as a continual beginning.

The novel's appearance under these auspices is, of course, an effort to consecrate it as a classic, but the attempt may have come too late.

When the Ivorian government invited Pope John Paul II to consecrate it in 1990, he voiced mild displeasure but agreed to come on one condition: a hospital for the poor was to be built next door.