Sentence examples for it is consecrated from inspiring English sources

Today Britain leads Europe on substantive rights for same-sex couples, Mr Wintemute says so restrictions on what the relationship is called and how it is consecrated seem petty.

Parishioners festively cut the sapling to be used as the badnjak and take it to their church, where it is consecrated by a priest before it is ceremonially placed on a fire built in the churchyard.

Gutted in 1689 and rebuilt several times, it was consecrated in 1961 after its most recent restoration.

"Each time I do, I make the sign of the cross, as it was consecrated as holy ground and its sale and subsequent abandonment reminded me of the Orthodox churches closed by the Communists.

When it was consecrated, this was too much for the authorities.

With the Christian reconquest of Spain in the 13th century, it was consecrated as a cathedral.

But then it was consecrated one more time, in 2001 on Sept. 11.

This is hallowed by the fact that it was consecrated as a house of God in 1766.

Construction began in 1883, but its completion was long delayed by work stoppages (because of financial constraints and the Spanish Civil War), and it was consecrated in 1993 by Pope John Paul II (a statue of whom is located on the grounds).

In 2000, he took a tour, led by Tagg Romney, Mitt's eldest son, of the new Mormon Temple in Belmont, near Boston, before it was consecrated and rendered forever off limits to nonbelievers.

But on the day it was consecrated, thanks to a spidercam deftly directed by the local television station, TV3, millions saw for the first time the recently-completed interior – a thrilling petrified forest of light, colour and space.