Trim's ecclesiasticalhistory dates back to the foundation of a church here by St. Patrick in the fifth century.
At Trim one is in the midst of military and ecclesiastical ruins which will make the lover of architectural remains long for the opportunity of knowing them better.
The cathedral of to-day is a rehabilitation of an ancient ecclesiastical building, though to all appearances it is a comparatively modern work and is often credited as such.
Near Drogheda is Monasterboice, a collection of celebratedecclesiastical ruins.
Dogmatic Gallicanism was concerned with the question of ecclesiastical government.
The most important of these is a grant dated December 1519 by which Vasco da Gama was created count of Vidigueira, with the extraordinary privileges of civil and criminal jurisdiction and ecclesiastical patronage.
The secular courts took cognizance of ecclesiastical affairs whenever the law of the land was alleged to have been broken; and papal bulls were not allowed to be published without the leave of the state.
After the 3rd century Gabii practically disappears from history, though its bishops continue to be mentioned in ecclesiastical documents till the close of the 9th.
From the ecclesiastical point of view, it corresponded nearly to the archbishopric of Auch.
Long before his time, however, the issue had been narrowed down to determining exactly how far the pope should be allowed to interfere in French ecclesiastical affairs.
Why, you're not going to cut my throat, nor put me into the Ecclesiastical Court!
On the very next morning he drove over to Puddingdale, and obtained the full consent of the wretched clerical Priam, who was endeavouring to feed his poor Hecuba and a dozen of Hectors on the small proceeds of his ecclesiastical kingdom.
Here was a nice man to be initiated into the comfortable arcana of ecclesiastical snuggeries; one who doubted the integrity of parsons, and probably disbelieved the Trinity!
Hiram's Hospital, as the retreat is called, is a picturesque building enough, and shows the correct taste with which the ecclesiasticalarchitects of those days were imbued.
He did not believe in the Gospel with more assurance than he did in the sacred justice of all ecclesiastical revenues.
Thus in ecclesiastical as in civil government it is true that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
A careful survey of the Middle Ages shows plainly an abiding antagonism between commerce and the ecclesiastical spirit.
The lords spiritual hold their seats by office; and the people at large have no voice in disposing of the ecclesiastical dignities.
Isabella the Catholic presented to the Chapel Royal of the cathedral of Granada an ecclesiastical robe embroidered by her own hands for the festival of Corpus Christi.
For this reason, these communities enjoy the protection of the ecclesiastical courts, to which, in cases of necessity, they frequently appeal.
But everything ecclesiastical at Bangor was in ashes, the torch, it will be remembered, having been applied by Glyndwr himself.
Outside the feudal castles and the great ecclesiastical foundations, there were few permanent structures of much value either in England or Wales.
It is not only the ecclesiastical but also the secular divisions of Wales, that in a great measure date from these fifth and sixth centuries.
A certain religious flavour was introduced into the martial songs of the bards, and Owen's native claims to the leadership of Wales were now supplemented by papal and ecclesiastical blessings from this new and very modern fount of inspiration.
Glyndwr, to be sure, did what few other makers of war, even in Wales, had done, for he destroyed some of the chief ecclesiastical buildings.
Never, so far as I know, has ecclesiastical tyranny been enduring under democratic institutions; and I see no reason why the result should be different in the new Ireland which the Land Acts and the Local Government Act have created.
But this ecclesiastical law is not even now in force in several countries.
The excommunication is against "those who compel, whether directly or indirectly, lay judges to summon ecclesiastical persons before lay tribunals.
It has not hesitated to interfere in Canada withecclesiastical sentences or censure which it believed invalid (see e.
The Deputy was to appoint English-speaking clergy to all ecclesiasticaldignities in Munster.
Nothing," says Mr. Bryce with reference to America, "excites more general disapproval than any attempt by an ecclesiastical organisation to interfere in politics.
Neither Scotland nor Ireland would willingly surrender its separate judicial and ecclesiasticalinstitutions or its separate machinery of administration.
It is quite as likely that it will lose ground, and that the first Irish Minister of Education will be the first to incur ecclesiastical censure.
The monks in surrounding the ecclesiastical village with a rath or caiseal, adopted no new contrivance.
Whitley Stokes, and also in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record for February, 1868.
He was an Irishman by birth, but had been trained in the monastery of Winchester to a more accurate knowledge and observance of ecclesiastical discipline than were to be found at that time in Ireland.
The fifth part of this work is the Book of Litanies, which has been published in the third volume of the Irish Ecclesiastical Record.
In North Connaught they were known as the Conmaicne of Moyrein in Leitrim and Cavan, with Fenagh as their ecclesiastical city, and St. Caillin as their patron saint.
The ancient round tower still standing, as well as the old stone cross, and the broken shaft of a second cross, show that the old abbey, on whose site the Protestant Church now stands, was a place of great ecclesiastical importance.
But it shows how carefully these matters were attended to in our early Irish Church, and is another striking monument of its ecclesiastical learning.
Colgan's opinion is always entitled to the highest respect, and the more deeply one is versed in the ecclesiastical history of ancient Ireland, the more one is likely to set a high value on the opinion of Colgan.
Venerable Bede gives us a very full account of the treatise De Locis Sanctis, in the 16th and 17th chapters of the fifth book of his Ecclesiastical History.
With continuous ecclesiastical service, he now is president of St. Johns Stake, elevated in July, 1887.
It is, as was the Temple of Solomon, more of a sanctuary, a place wherein ecclesiastical ordinances may have administration.
The earliest of them, the five ecclesiastical pamphlets of the year 1641, deal with a question which had been of intimate concern to Milton ever since the beginning of his Cambridge days.
The growing unrest, therefore, in mattersecclesiastical during the early part of the seventeenth century could not but affect him.
He might have found it incidentally but fully set forth in so recent a book as Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, I.
Excepting the ecclesiastical buildings, the houses are of one story, built of stone plastered with mud, sometimes of adobe or bamboo, and the windows are grated like those of a prison.
Quito is an ecclesiastical city, and is nearly supported by Guayaquil.
The query was put to the Congregation of the Inquisition if the clergy and people might, for the purpose of fast and other ecclesiastical obligations, follow the new time, or were they obliged to retain the true time?
Although the ecclesiastical year begins with Advent, the beginnings of the Bible are not read till March.
The minute study of the ecclesiastical calendar is not now so necessary for each priest, as it was centuries ago.
In connection with this matter a very instructive and devotional essay in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record (Fourth Series XXXI.
Ecclesiastical superiors are to introduce the new order of the Psalter, and chapters are permitted to use it if the majority of the members agree to its introduction.
Books of Scripture commentary by non-Catholic writers should be read with caution, and often ecclesiastical permission for their perusal must be sought.
So perhaps we shall have an ecclesiastical compromise by which all the Bishops shall wear Jaeger copes and Jaeger mitres.
Now, poets in our epoch will tend towards ecclesiasticalreligion strictly because it is just a little more free than anything else.
To prove his faith he would never suffer a military escort to accompany him in his wilderness pioneering, but took only an Indian companion or two as interpreter, and a mule to carry his ecclesiastical impedimenta.
An ecclesiastical order existent in rural New Mexico, probably deriving from the Third Order of Saint Francis, and distinguished by practices of self-flagellation for the remission of sins.
To constitute the Church they say there must be bishops at its head, ordained by men whose ecclesiastical orders have come down from apostolic times in unbroken succession.
While all who "hold the Head" stand fast in one spirit, they are not all enrolled as members of one ecclesiastical body, or subject to the authority of one earthly ruler.
The clock, standing on the mantle-shelf between two superb silver candlesticks with six branches, had an ecclesiastical splendor which revealed the hand of Boulle.
Max repented having driven the old man into giving away the pictures, and the rage he felt against the heirs after hearing from Baruch old Hochon's ecclesiastical scheme, was increased by what he termed his own stupidity.
He had stayed only a year and a half in this rich variety of pursuits, scholastic as well as apostolic, when the novelties apparent in his manner of life ended by making him a suspected character to the ecclesiastical authorities.
The branches of this theological course are Scholastic Theology, Moral Theology, Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and Oriental Languages, Ecclesiastical History, and Canon Law.
The Professor of Ecclesiastical History need not treat canons or dogma.
Henceforth, ecclesiastical knowledge and other acquirements will be proper to his state, as a Religious; but, for the special vocation of the Society of Jesus, he returns to secular studies.
They are reviewing all Theology, Philosophy, Sacred Scripture, Canon Law, Polemical or Controversial Theology, andecclesiastical erudition generally.
In legal or ecclesiastical papers to indicate numerical words which may have to be changed, or to indicate where details are to be supplied.
Then came Sir Walter Scott, who inspired me, as he inspired so many greater men, with the love of ecclesiastical splendour, and so turned my vague love of ceremony into a definite channel.
King to the Pastoral Professorship brought a new element of social delight into the ecclesiastical world of Oxford, and that was just what was wanted.
At first, that work consisted of service on a Public Morals Committee, and of lecturing on ecclesiastical topics; but gradually the field contracted in one direction and expanded in another.
He had made his fame by his speech on the Second Reading of the Irish Church Bill, and was always at his best when defending the temporal interests of ecclesiastical institutions.
Father Peter claimed trial by the ecclesiastical court, but our other priest, Father Adolf, said an ecclesiastical court hadn’t jurisdiction over a suspended priest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ecclesiastical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: churchly; clerical; ecclesiastical; pastoral; sacerdotal; sacred; solemn; spiritual
