Sentence examples for visitation of the from inspiring English sources

A royal visitation of the provinces took place in August 1547 and each parish that was visited was instructed to obtain a copy of the Homilies.

Then, a few days later, came America's robotic visitation of the probe named Spirit to Mars.

The nighttime visitation of the departed and the subsequent demise of the survivor were seen as cause and effect.

This visitation of the raucous on the classical is impolite but feels oddly collegial; I can fancy Eisenman hanging out, after hours, with Phidias and the rest.

St. Francis de Sales was bishop (1602 22) and, with St. Jane Frances Chantal, founded the first Convent of the Visitation of the Virgin in Annecy.

The Rev. Patrick J. Rush, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Kansas City.

"There is a perception that I have, and I think others too, that the visitation of seminaries the last time around was not altogether thorough," Mr. Hitchcock said.

There is something of the silent meetinghouse, awaiting visitations of the Spirit, about all his works.

Among other miracles -- and these included the visitations of the singer Gloria Estefan and the actor Andy Garcia -- the Virgin Mary was alleged to have appeared in the bathroom mirror.

There's a touch of the metaphysical, as well — visitations of the protagonist's late wife that are perched on the uncertain border of fantasies, dreams, and hallucinations.

At certain times, however, the companies might be impelled to do so: when a company disbanded or when it was put into enforced inactivity by visitations of the plague or when the plays were no longer current.