Sentence examples for religious consecration from inspiring English sources

It is, therefore, very interesting to find that in those provinces the religious consecration of marriage is still considered by the peasants as a superfluous ceremony.

Local authorities in Córdoba have dealt a blow to the Catholic church's claim of legal ownership of the Spanish city's mosque-cathedral, declaring that "religious consecration is not the way to acquire property".

Their feeling of duty in this respect amounts to a sense of religious consecration". Bellamy has surpassed mere prediction of the future: he has forged in Dr. Leete's lines the dull clank of totalitarian prose.

No later than the end of the sixteenth century an assembly of Divines convened by Ivan the Cruel entered a strong protest against the custom which everywhere prevailed of omitting the religious consecration of the marriage tie, and strong measures were in consequence taken against those who did not comply with the requirements of the clergy.

The only European states in which the crown is still imposed in the course of a religious ceremony of consecration are Great Britain and the Vatican.

It was more valuable than gold to early civilizations because of its use in religious ceremonies, the consecration of temples, the manufacture of cosmetics and the treatment of illnesses.

Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, French sociologists, concentrated their investigations on Hindu and Hebrew sacrifice, arriving at the conclusion that "sacrifice is a religious act which, through the consecration of a victim, modifies the condition of the moral person who accomplishes it or that of certain objects with which he is concerned".

BEIJING — A Roman Catholic bishop who stunned congregants and Communist Party officials last July when he renounced his government position during his consecration has been stripped of his religious title, according to two Catholic Web sites that cited contacts in the Chinese church.

Above all, the Coronation is a religious event - a service which represents the consecration of the king or queen to a lifetime of service to his or her people.

In the Anglican ceremony, a combination of religious and civil ceremonies, the royal mandate for the consecration is read and the oath touching the acknowledgment of the royal supremacy is taken by the bishop-elect.

The influx has made consecration ceremonies more common across the country, religious scholars say, as Hindu communities that have taken root since immigration restrictions were eased in 1965 become prosperous enough to inaugurate major temples — often with priests and sacred plants flown from India and flowers dropped from helicopters in a kind of coming-out party.