Sentence examples for surrounding church from inspiring English sources

In the living room, table after table is filled with family pictures — children at various stages of their lives in twos or threes, children surrounding Church and Mailer on summer visits.

Visitors gave extensively to the abbey, allowing the monks to rebuild much of the surrounding church in the 1330s.

The rest of the Sausage Castle watched from the surrounding church pews as Regi taught Liz how to shake her ass on the stage.

The Rev. Barry Lynn, head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, called her a "good choice," with a "wealth of knowledge about the constitutional issues surrounding church-state relations and a reputation for thoughtfulness and patience".

Not far from York, the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, May 24 to 28, presents performances in the magnificent Gothic Beverley Minster and surrounding churches.

Firework displays and bonfires would be held on these occasions, accompanied by the local militia firing volleys and the ringing of the bells of the surrounding churches, while local residents and shopkeepers would illuminate their windows with lit candles.

The surrounded church was well prepared for defence, but its garrison was by then composed almost entirely of the wounded.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the seminary could sell the land immediately surrounding the church yard, but not the church itself.

To gauge the takeover all you need to do is climb the metal stairs behind the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and walk on the roofs surrounding the church's.

His papacy faced several challenges, including a decline in vocations and church attendance, divisive debates concerning the direction of the church, and the effects of the scandal beginning in the late 1990s surrounding the church's handling of numerous cases of sexual abuse by priests.

The remains of stone walls surrounding the church were once a large village of some 600 Tiwa-speaking people.