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Example sentences for "diocess"

Lexicographically close words:
dints; diocesan; diocesans; diocese; dioceses; dioecesi; dioecious; dioptric; diorama; diorite
  1. I have heard but one instance mentioned, which happened a few years ago, near Fridrichstad, in the diocess of Aggerhuus.

  2. In Illinois there are 10 churches, and 6 priests, a part of which are included in the Diocess of Indiana.

  3. She is titular saint of the parish of new Tuamia, in the diocess of Elphin, and another in that of Tuam.

  4. He made his studies in the monastery of St. Perpetuus in the diocess of Asti.

  5. After the death of Baldegisil, an unworthy prelate, who sought only to enrich himself by the spoils of his church, St. Bertran was chosen his successor in the diocess of Mans in 586.

  6. The Breviaries of Coutances and Rennes, and that of the Cistercian abbey of Beaubec, in the diocess of Rouen, which is possessed of his relics.

  7. The relics shown in the monastery at Vezelay in Burgundy, ten leagues from Auxerre in the diocess of Autun, may be a portion of the body of St. Mary Magdalen, or of some other Mary mentioned in the gospel.

  8. He was yet a child when they sent him to the monastery of Menat in the diocess of Clermont, in order to be early principled in knowledge and piety.

  9. The idolatrous inhabitants of Poland and Sclavonia had some time before laid waste the diocess of Meersburg, and destroyed that and several other churches.

  10. This was a great abbey of near three hundred Benedictin monks, of a reformed austere institute, situate on a mountain of difficult access, about four leagues in circumference and two leagues high, in the diocess of Barcelona.

  11. She was venerated with singular piety in the diocess of Cracow and several other parts of Poland, and her name was solemnly inscribed among the saints by Alexander VIII.

  12. See the history of the monastery of Chelles in the sixth tome of the late history of the diocess of Paris, by Abbé Lebeuf, and Solier on this day, p.

  13. A prelate publicly denounced the imposture, and an Abbe Deleon, priest in the diocess of Grenoble, printed a work called 'La Salette a Valley of Lies.

  14. In 1481, an edict was issued against the Jews; before the end of the year, in the single diocess of Cadiz, two thousand Jews were burnt alive!

  15. Cardinal Cole published a list of fifty-four Articles, containing instructions to the clergy of his diocess of Canterbury, some of which are too ludicrous and puerile to excite any other sentiment than laughter in these days.

  16. They suffered under Maurice, bishop of Rochester, in whose diocess they lived.

  17. Thomas Watts, of Billericay, in Essex, of the diocess of London, was a linen draper.

  18. Persecutions in the Diocess of Canterbury.


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