Sentence examples for would have consecrated from inspiring English sources

Dedicatory rituals involving human sacrifice appear to have been performed by the Inca on mountaintop shrines because the burial of victims at these locations would have consecrated the summit ([ 37]: 473) and such actions would place the massif's "natural sacredness" under the domain of the imperial cult [ 17].

For a moment she considers taking her thoughts to the confessional, since, for all their blamelessness, they seem to have consecrated the simple objects she and Florian were surrounded by when they met in the local grocery store: "She wondered if they would ever be the same again, if what she'd bought herself would be, the Brown & Polson's cornflour, Rinso.

"It is clear that those who have consecrated Gene Robinson have acted in good faith on their understanding of what the constitution of the American church permits.

Executives from EA and the software colossus descended on the sleepy town, inaugurating what the firms have consecrated the "Maddenoliday".

Honorius may have consecrated Felix as the first bishop of East Anglia or Felix may have already have been consecrated on the continent.

However, one historian, Pauline Stafford, theorises that both archbishops may have consecrated Harold.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

That she is a she mightily compounds the insult, as most American Episcopalians are pointedly proud to have consecrated the first woman archbishop in Christian history.

(AP) BLOOMFIELD: LATINO EPISCOPAL BISHOP INSTALLED The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut has consecrated its first Latino bishop.

His minder asks him to describe the outside of the house he has "consecrated".

At one end of the spectrum, the Episcopal church in America has consecrated an openly lesbian bishop; at the other end, African bishops have supported harsh anti-gay laws.