Sentence examples for direction of priests from inspiring English sources

When the missions were secularized in 1833, some 30,000 Mission Indians were farming under the direction of priests and soldiers at 21 different missions.

The most famous bridge of that age was Old London Bridge, begun in the late 12th century under the direction of a priest, Peter of Colechurch, and completed in 1209, four years after his death.

Not a word of what was coming out of this demented imagination had ever been heard in the parish, no finger ever pointed in the direction of any priest.

The Alaskan mission was under the direction of a modest priest sent to America from eastern Siberia, Ivan Veniaminov.

His education began only in his teens, first under the direction of a local priest, then at Lyons, where he went to live with his older brother, Jean, after the death of their father.

Following the directions of the priest in charge, we headed toward the nearest door to exit to the street.

He criticised left-wing guerrillas as well as right-wing ones.Moreover, Romero took spiritual direction from Father Josemaría Escrivá, the Spanish founder of Opus Dei, a deeply conservative order of priests and lay-people.

Heading in the direction of the Pantheon was a young priest in a beautifully cut cassock, a clerical hat called a saturno, for its resemblance to the ringed planet, and a messenger bag.

Furthermore, there were several grades of priests.

"I come from a long line of priests".

Replenishing the vanishing ranks of priests is only one reason to let all priest marry.