Sentence examples for holy origin from inspiring English sources

But the notion that rubes of yesteryear believed in a holy origin of the tracks seems to have gathered strength as it's been passed along.

Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.

Sculptural representations of the sacred or holy have their origin in cult.

What would constitute bulletproof empirical evidence to settle the debate?To me the holy grail of origin-of-life research would be to find, and demonstrate, a simple, geochemically plausible way of creating a group of molecules that spontaneously organise themselves to make its own copies.

In the early Church, the imposition of hands on the newly baptized to impart the gift of the Holy Spirit was the origin of the sacrament of confirmation.

The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans invoked their gods with offerings of salt and water and some people think this to be the origin of Holy Water in the Christian faith.

In the Middle Ages the legend of the Holy Grail surrounded the origins of the eucharistic chalice with a magical aura.

Although elections were used in ancient Athens, in Rome, and in the selection of popes and Holy Roman emperors, the origins of elections in the contemporary world lie in the gradual emergence of representative government in Europe and North America beginning in the 17th century.

Correction: May 30 , 2004 Sunday A picture caption on Page 9 of Arts & Leisure today about the Cannes Film Festival misstates the national origin of "The Holy Girl".

Little is known of his life, whenever and whatever it was, but some historians now believe that the origin of our holy, constitutionally-enshrined 14 February traditions dates back to when Valentine, then working as a freelance monk, posted himself anonymously to a nun he fancied on the 10 February.