Sentence examples for first consecrated from inspiring English sources

In that basic ritual, a lay sacrificer was first consecrated, after which juice was pressed three times from the soma plant, part being offered to the fire and part consumed by the priests.

Inside, the lower-level grotto was first consecrated as a holy shrine during the 4th-century reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine – who famously converted to Christianity and wanted to found churches to mark Jesus' life – around the same time as Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The colorful paint used is first consecrated on an alter and later bestowed with blessings.

If he is not a bishop, however, he must be first consecrated as one before he can assume office.

Finally, the Abusir Papyri demonstrate the strong connection between the cult of the sun and the mortuary cult of the pharaohs of this dynasty: offerings for a deceased ruler were first consecrated in a sun temple before being dispatched to his mortuary temple.

Prithu is "celebrated as the first consecrated king, from whom the earth received her (Sanskrit) name Prithvi".

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.

His successor at Rochester was Ithamar, the first Englishman consecrated to a Gregorian missionary see.

The first simulations consecrate on a number of different geometries of the water tank in total reflection.

The Celtic ecclesiastic St. Paternus was consecrated first bishop of Vannes in 466.

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.