All beautiful within, the churches of Florence are singularly poor in those rich façades which give such scope to the sculptor and architect, conferring, as at Pisa, distinction on a whole town.
A host of sculptors filled the Tuscan churches with those memorials which constitute one of their chief attractions.
The porches and frontals of Gothic churches abounded in nude statuary, from scenes in the Garden of Eden down to the Last Judgment.
The churches of Umbria and Tuscany were as frames in which space was provided for all the arts; where fresco and sculpture could be welcomed with ample scope for their free and unencumbered display.
Gradually the great churches and corporations ceased giving orders on the grand scale, for much of the needful decoration was by then completed.
But the Cathedral of Florence must nevertheless take high rank among the most stately churches of Christendom.
The churches of the Carmine, Santo Spirito and San Lorenzo are without façades at all, presenting graceless and unfinished masonry in place of what was intended by their founders.
The leaves fluttered, the water lapped, but they continued in one stay like so manychurches established by law.
Harassing regulations in regard to schools and churches have been attempted in certain localities, but not without due protest and the assertion of the inherent and conventional rights of our countrymen.
Eleven schools and nine churches have been established, and three daily and five weekly newspapers are published in this city, whose charter and ordinances have only the sanction of the voluntary acquiescence of the people from day to day.
This impressive act was preceded at 9 o'clock in the morning in all the churches of the city by prayer for God's blessing on the Government and its first President.
They sailed northwards to far St. Kilda and the Orkney and Shetland Isles, where the ruins are still to be seen of churches which they founded.
There are more than ninety churches in Scotland that can trace their foundation to the time of Columba; and each church, according to the custom of the time, had its neighbouring monastery.
His friends and kinsfolk were generous, and churches and monasteries built by the Saint and owning him as their patron and head sprang up in every direction.
This latter iconoclast is in especially bad odor with the sextons and vergers of most of the old churches which I have visited.
With the few exceptions just mentioned, the whole of the Western churches have now substituted for the ancient bath the ceremony of letting fall a few drops of water on the face.
They mistrusted their love of the drama, and filled the churches instead.
Through the following century numbers of Seventh Day Baptist churcheswere founded in America.
He wrote: "The very heart and kernel of the Eastern Question can only be reached in the Holy City, Jerusalem, where the Eastern and Western churches are still wrestling as of old for the mastery.
Here in England are about nine or ten churches that keep the Sabbath, besides many scattered disciples, who have been eminently preserved in this tottering day, when many once eminent churches have been shattered in pieces.
There was elected in the cathedral churches a bishop or archbishop of the Fools, which election was confirmed by all sorts of buffooneries, played off by way of consecration.
In those churches which held immediately from the Holy See, a pope of the Fools was elected, who officiated in all the decorations of papacy.
Let us once for all abandon the pretence that all the marriages made in churches or in registrars' offices are, therefore, necessarily made in heaven.
The treasures of the churches were carried away, and even the tombs of the ancient emperors were rifled in the mad search for relics.
So universal was this apostasy that only seven churches throughout Asia, Africa and Europe were considered worthy of being either reproved or blessed by the voice of revelation.
At Fanueil Hall, in the churches and at the market place, the rights of the people were discussed.
While the apostles lived the churches planted by them continued to exist with more or less of spiritual life.
Of Bournemouth's many modern churches that of St. Peter, situated at the junction of the Gervis and the Hinton Roads, has interesting historical associations, apart from its architectural appeal.
Taken altogether, this church, with its splendid windows and richly-wrought reredos and screens, is one of the most pleasing modern churches in the country, both with regard to its architecture and its delightful situation.
The most remarkable attitude yet taken in regard to the war by any body of people in the world is that of the native Christian Churches in China.
I would add a Sonnet to my Ecclesiastical Series, upon the union of the two Episcopal churches of England and America.
The churches seem generally falling into decay in the country.
The architecture of these churches and chapels, where they have not been recently rebuilt or modernised, is of a style not less appropriate and admirable than that of the dwelling-houses and other structures.
Still more remarkable, as more involved in personal matters, is his advice to Augustine, who had consulted him as to the differences in worship between the Gallican churches and those of Rome.
He is suspected of having had a guilty liking for the Gothic style in architecture which greatly shocked the Roman dilettanti; and certainly expressed his admiration for some of the great churches in Germany with enthusiasm.
The churches were in ruins, the country abandoned, the streets in evil state, and an extreme penury reigned everywhere.
Dull and bare outside, thechurches are gaudy and dull within.
She promised and published through all the Churches the freedom and integrity of the Papal dominions.
In their bravado, they carved initials and dates on trees, on the leaves of the maguey, and on the doors of churches and haciendas.
Some chapels and churches had pews, but in those without furniture the workers knelt.
There were haciendas that possessed chapels that rivaled the provincial churches in size, architecture, and decor.
Blossoms filled churches and chapels with fragrance, they crisscrossed patios on wires, they brightened roadside shrines.
HULME remarks, "The sculptured fonts or stained-glass windows in the churches of the Middle Ages were full of teaching to a congregation of whom the greater part could not read, to whom therefore one great avenue of knowledge was closed.
The mediaeval cathedrals and churches of Europe admirably exhibit this combination of art with craft.
K] It is singular to observe how the "votiva paries," in the churches of Papal Rome, are hung with similar offerings to those which formerly ornamented her temples in Pagan times.
There were no churches in Traverse City then, but Sunday was kept just as sacred as though the people had churches to go to.
Footnote 4: The tribes of Israel were sometimes distinguished in countrychurches by the ensigns given to them by Jacob.
The city churches rang out the hour when they were within a hundred yards of the gate, and as this opened, Van Voorden, with his daughter behind him on a pillion, rode out to meet them, followed by two mounted men.
The cathedral and churches were all lighted up and crowded with worshippers, thanking God for having preserved them in their hour of greatest need.
In the vestibule or approaches to catholic churches is usually found a vase filled with water, (called Piscina,) and this water is considered holy.
And the priests filled the churches with clouds of smoke, and said to the people: We pray for you, God accepteth our incense, and blesseth your arms.
There werechurches and schools already started, and a beginning had been made in government.
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