Sentence examples for stone sanctuary from inspiring English sources

Beneath Eger lie 60 miles (96 km) of tunnels that in times past provided building stone, sanctuary against invading Turks, and, more recently, cellars to mature wine.

The lab complex sits in the "working" part of the garden, which makes the presence of a gleaming stone sanctuary all the more startling.

Msgr. Dermot R. Brennan and two other priests, with part-time help from a Capuchin friar, juggle eight Masses on weekends in the main church and a smaller stone sanctuary, and oversee more than 50 programs.

Prince Charles and Prime Minister Tony Blair entered the high-vaulted nave of the gray stone sanctuary, the mother church of Anglican Christianity, along with more than 2,000 church and government figures dressed in traditional robes and wigs and miters.

Since kindergarten, he has prayed in La Lomita Chapel, a modest white stone sanctuary with a handful of wooden pews and flowers draped on the altar.

Secret site Walk down Victoria Street to Castle Street and see if you can locate the 13th-century Sanctuary stone in the pavement, the oldest object in Liverpool city centre.

Mostly, he said, the ordinance stems from several cats that were found at the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary and on the sandy reaches at the southern end of the island.

Gomme suggests further that in the middle of the 13th century the east end of the church would have been rebuilt in stone, with a chancel and sanctuary.

The site is known for its unusual horseshoe-shaped temple or sanctuary of stone masonry.

The wood clapboard building on a stone foundation has a sanctuary, a foyer, two sets of double doors and two half bathrooms, and retains the original pews, pulpit, doors, hardwood floors and windows.

We know from the road signs with gold crosses on them that eventually, around another curve, we will come to a Franciscan sanctuary, a secluded, stone compound with an ancient church, a working friary, and signs to a Sacro Speco where Francis of Assisi, not yet a saint, retreated about 800 years ago to pray, meditate, wrestle with the devil, receive revelations from Jesus, perform miracles.