Sentence examples for to intercede for from inspiring English sources

The divine triad may attempt to intercede for souls and obtain forgiveness for their sins.

This gives Marianne a chance to masquerade as a French Lieutenant when she goes to intercede for the imprisoned doughboy.

The two soldier-saints allegedly appeared to the emperor Anastasius I to intercede for Justinian, who had been condemned to death for conspiracy.

When its leaders were arrested, Frederick William appealed to the Swiss Federal Council for their release and also asked the French emperor Napoleon III to intercede for them.

More recently, the family of a girl who was born deaf, Amy Wall, prayed for Mother Drexel to intercede for their daughter.

"Had we come across a graveyard," he says at one point, "we would have stopped, prostrated ourselves... and implored the dead to intercede for mercy on our behalf".

She tried to intercede personally for her imprisoned husband and five sons with Mary, who was staying outside London.

Again you cure someone who has prayed to you to intercede with God for them.

A just man who did not tolerate dishonesty, he was terrible in his anger and could be cruel when he encountered opposition: in such moments only his intimates could soothe him best of all his beloved second wife, Catherine, whom people frequently asked to intercede with him for them.

Joseph to intercede with God for rain.

In an attempt to get Pope Celestine III to intercede, Walter de Coutances left for Rome in November 1196.