Sentence examples for popular veneration from inspiring English sources

His reputed miracle-working generated popular veneration to such a degree that, about 420, to escape the importunities of the people, he began his pillar life northwest of Aleppo.

However, she was not formally canonized until 2012, when Pope Benedict XVI declared her to be a saint through the process of "equivalent canonization," a papal proclamation of canonization based on a standing tradition of popular veneration.

The veneration of Kali has completely overtaken the previously popular veneration of Pattini.

The Roman Catholic Church has not given any official approval or begun any processes leading towards her canonization, but local Catholic clergy and diocesan officials have permitted, promoted, and participated in the popular veneration of Richard.

The evidence from those times indicates that while ordinary Egyptians used many venues to interact with the divine, such as household shrines or community chapels, the official temples with their sequestered gods were a major focus for popular veneration.

The popular veneration of previously Hindu deities such as Kali and Kataragama deviyo (the latter identified with the Hindu Skanda) have fundamentally altered the rational nature of Theravada Buddhism towards the Bhakti ("Personal veneration of deity") aspect of Hinduism.

Holy places, such as Mecca and the Kaʿbah in Islam or the Buddhist stupas, are centres of pilgrimages and veneration because of their religious significance and the religious values that they symbolize and not necessarily because miracles are wrought there, yet popular devotion associates miracles with many of these holy sites.

As in many Islamic countries, Sufism claims adherents, and forms of popular religion including the veneration of saints and the visitation of tombs are widely practiced.

For more than a century after the accession of Leo III (717 741), a persisting theme in Byzantine history may be found in the attempts made by the emperors, often with wide popular support, to eliminate the veneration of icons, a practice that had earlier played a major part in creating the morale essential to survival.

As a preacher in Delhi, Ismāʿīl Shahīd attracted attention as a young man for his forceful preaching against such popular superstitions as grave worship, the veneration of saints, and other practices regarded as heretical.

Sergius and Bacchus were enormously popular in their day, and their veneration spans both present day Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, but the Roman shrine is by far the easiest to reach.