Sentence examples for representations of saints from inspiring English sources

Those with representations of saints were particularly targeted.

At its core are devotional and ritual representations of saints, known as santos.

Piero left bequests to religious confraternities in the region that maintained holy relics and cult images — representations of saints and the like which served as insignia of the orders and as objects of worship themselves.

Less convincing is the connection postulated between the concept of Maria lactans (representations of the Virgin nursing her child) and bronze and terra-cotta statues of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis suckling the infant sun god Horus or between representations of saints on horseback and some late figures of the adult Horus in an identical pose.

Born in Utah to a Mormon family, Nelson became fascinated by the innocent and romantic representations of saints in traditional theological art.

Based on a previous work by the authors allowing to have a very accurate frequency domain representation of Saint-Venant equations, the paper proposes a new approximate model: the integrator delay zero (IDZ) model has an integrator and a delay in low frequencies, and models the high frequencies by a constant gain and a delay.

Edith Thomas, Ruthin, Denbighshire Two of the books I read this year gave me something to think about in different ways Star of the Sea for its portrayal of the effects of the Irish potato famine and The Da Vinci Code (I even got up in the small hours to check the representation of two saints in a reproduction of Leonardo's Last Supper).

There's a strange fascination for outsize statues in Malta – the more larger-than-life and kitsch the better – and everywhere you go (even the beach), you'll find yourself face to face with some huge, gaudy, pastel-coloured plaster representation of a bunch of saints.

The ideas of the freedom and equality of Christians and their representation in a communion of saints by virtue of voluntary membership had been disseminated in various medieval sects such as the Cathari, Waldenses, Hussites, and the Bohemian Brethren and were reinforced during the Reformation by groups such as the Hutterites, Mennonites, and Schwenckfelders.

Its visual representations of the orisha take on the more popular form of images of saints, although they retain key traits of typical representations of Yoruba deities.

Counterseals often bore the figures of saints.