Sentence examples for he consecrated himself from inspiring English sources

Born into a devout Roman Catholic family, he consecrated himself to Jesus at age 5.

He was a man who "consecrated himself to the Novel," everything else be damned.

At the age of fourteen, he determined to consecrate himself to a life of timely escape.

Boniface and Corbinian, whom he consecrated bishops in 722.

In Moscow in 1589 he consecrated Job, metropolitan of Moscow, as the first Russian patriarch.

He consecrated an auxiliary bishop for Alaska in 1903, and in 1904 he consecrated Raphael Hawaweeny to administer to the Arab parishes.

At first Theobald was in exile at St Omer, where he consecrated Gilbert Foliot as Bishop of Hereford.

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.

Early Christians greeted one another with a kiss, and this "holy kiss" still figures in Roman Catholic rituals; for example, a bishop kisses a newly ordained priest and is himself kissed when he is consecrated.

When he was consecrated in 1983, at 35, he became the youngest member of the conference.

He was consecrated bishop of Nyasaland (later Malawi) in 1961.