Successful country songs tended to have messages — in descending order — about long-term commitment to marriage, parenting children, break-ups and oaths of fidelity.
There are less publicized ones favored by some conservatives, including tight episcopal control over Catholic higher education, restoration of traditional forms of seminary training and broad resort to oaths of fidelity.
Barefoot, in accordance with tradition, Selvo was led into St Mark's Basilica where, amidst the construction materials and scaffolding, he prayed to God, received his staff of office, heard the oaths of fidelity from his subjects, and was legally sworn in as the 31st Doge of Venice.
Ney retained his rank and titles and took an oath of fidelity to the Bourbon dynasty.
At Easter 1051, the boy was baptized after the German princes had taken an oath of fidelity and obedience at Christmas 1050.
Next, Williams refused to take an oath of fidelity to Massachusetts, on the grounds that anything sworn in God's name for worldly purposes was corrupt.
An attempt to seize power was crushed by the Empress, who demanded that the military oath of fidelity should recognize her as senior ruler.
The kingdom's cohesion was augmented by an oath of fidelity, which Charlemagne exacted from every freeman (789, 793, 802), and by the publication of legislation the capitularies that regulated the administration and exploitation of the kingdom.
Pius took no immediate action, but when an oath of fidelity to the new regime was demanded from the clergy, he formally denounced the Civil Constitution and the Revolution on March 10 , 1791
After the cardinals, dressed in their new scarlet cassocks but still bareheaded, recited an oath of fidelity to the pope and his successors, John Paul received them one by one at his golden throne in front of St. Peter's basilica, handing them the biretta, the red silk hat that symbolized their new rank.
In Defensio fidei, published in 1613 at the behest of the papal nuncio in Madrid, Decio Caraffa, he offered a response to James I of England's defence of his requirement that Catholic subjects take an oath of fidelity.
