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Example sentences for "missioners"

Lexicographically close words:
missio; mission; missionaries; missionary; missioned; missionnaire; missionnaires; missions; missis; missive
  1. Sidenote: C[=o]missioners appointed to meet and commune of peace.

  2. He wouldn't be the first of these psalm-singing missioners who have turned out to be hypocrites!

  3. There's plenty of work for missioners there.

  4. We look upon ourselves as missioners only.

  5. Of course, the missioners saw water-monsters in the Congo River.

  6. The missioners insist upon their privilege of travelling free of expense, and make a barefaced use of the corvée.

  7. Sonho fell from a father superior and six missioners to two (Merolla).

  8. It is said that two of a trade never agree, and accordingly we find the hottest wrath of the missioners vented upon their rival brethren, the Ngangas or medicine-men in Africa, and the Pages or Tupi doctors in South America.

  9. The missioners strongly recommend medals, relics, Agni-Dei, and palm-leaves consecrated on Palm Sundays.

  10. His Most Faithful Majesty that missioners were sadly wanted.

  11. If circumstances need it, they take charge of a parish; if not, they do the work of missioners in their own churches.

  12. His fellow missioners were highly amused, and this incident tells wonderfully for his virtue, for it is almost the only instance we could ever find of his having done anything like losing his temper during his life as a Passionist.

  13. The two missioners appointed for the Indies lived in this manner; and impatiently waited for the proper season of navigation.

  14. The example of the two missioners drew many Portuguese to that kind of life, of which they both made profession.

  15. Xavier found at Malacca three missioners of the company, who were going to the Moluccas, in obedience to the letters he had written.

  16. What I have said, points chiefly to the missioners of Comorine and the Moluccas.

  17. In the midst of the conversation, the king sent for the Prince of Portugal, his son Don Juan, and the Infanta Maria, his daughter, that the two missioners might see them.

  18. These missioners were John Beyra, Nugnez Ribera, and Nicholas Nugnez, who had not yet received priests' orders.

  19. The season began to be more moderate, and Xavier was disposing himself to set sail for the Cape of Comorine, when a Portuguese vessel arrived from Mozambique, which brought in her live missioners of the society.

  20. He arrives at Malacca, and there meets three missioners of the company.

  21. But to the end that the conduct of the missioners might be uniform, and that the same spirit might animate all of them, besides the instructions which he gave them by word of mouth, he gave them the following rules in writing.

  22. Our two missioners laboured not in vain at Lisbon.

  23. The rules which he prescribes to the missioners of the fishing coast.

  24. The women missioners had classes in three other places, and held preparation classes for young teachers, thus training up a supply of teachers from among the young girls of the neighbourhood.

  25. The four missioners who had served this district at different times had all been killed in the War.

  26. The women missioners went up to Regina once a quarter, when the clergy and laymen met to discuss their work.

  27. It was noticeable how beloved the missioners were.

  28. Missioners of other orders send quite as much produce, but each one keeps his own portion separate, to be used as he likes, so that the quantity however great being thus divided, does not make much impression on those who see it.

  29. Nevertheless, Sanders was watchful, for there were times when the L'Mandi missioners and their friends strayed outside their sphere.

  30. Sent to the reverend father Andrew Castillon, provincial of the province of France, by the missioners of the fathers of the Society of Jesus.

  31. But the dangers which the missioners ran were not always of their own provoking.

  32. Many of Farel's missioners were temporarily settled in these village churches; but they were for the most part better fitted for pioneer work than for a settled pastorate.

  33. Missioners of the Reformed faith came in great numbers.

  34. The earliest missioners were priests and monks who had become convinced of the errors of Romanism.

  35. The missioners changed their names frequently to elude observation.

  36. The French-speaking provinces in the south had been evangelised for the most part by missioners trained under Calvin at Geneva, and they brought his theology with them.

  37. The holy abbot would take his turn at the oars with the rest, and when he was not with the missioners on their travels would follow them in spirit from his cell at Iona, shielding and protecting them by his prayers.

  38. Some missioners seem to think because you're poor everything God put in other people's hearts and minds and bodies and souls He left out of you.

  39. There, for many years, French missioners had done the same work as Americans in Armenia, work in every sense liberal and civilising, but undenominational in religious matters and unproselytising.

  40. Outside in the town the Turkish Consul began hanging Christians, and the missioners were allowed to take the bodies and bury them.

  41. Even if the massacres had not occurred, the entry of America into the war would have resulted in a similar cessation of their work, and most probably in a massacre of the American missioners themselves.

  42. Many travellers and traders have been murdered by them on entering their territory, and the missioners of North-America regard them as likely to be the last in the order of their conversion to Christianity.

  43. St. Boniface has been the residence of a bishop since 1818, and is now the resting-place and point of departure for all missioners bound for the northern deserts of America.

  44. The seminary meanwhile sent out its missioners to conduct services at Lachine and Pointe aux Trembles and the surrounding district.

  45. This year the Jesuit missioners in charge of Ville Marie were Fathers Buteaux and Isaac Jogues.

  46. The peace with the Iroquois left further opportunity for self-sacrificing missioners to work among them, so that in 1669 the clergy were glad to welcome the return of the Recollects.

  47. Souart, the curé of Montreal, went over to France to seek new missioners for the work of the Sulpicians.

  48. Graith was one of the most illustrious missioners who laboured in our Irish Church during the sixteenth century; and, as Peter Lombard informs us, was at one time the only bishop in the province of Munster.

  49. With that Father Somazzo left the small boy standing in the garden and followed the other missioners into the house.

  50. Twice in the period that he was Vicar of Holy Trinity a Parochial Mission was held, the respective missioners being the Rev.

  51. It had not then been reduced to a science: missioners adopted their own individual methods, as seemed best to them.

  52. The missioners spent their first night in Canada at the Isle of Orleans, which they reached on the evening of the 31st of July.

  53. She found among our women, virgins worthy of admittance to the sanctuary, and among our warriors, missioners and martyrs who will weave a crown for her in heaven.

  54. Another object of intense amazement was the first clock brought by the missioners to the country of the Hurons.

  55. The plan of the missioners in the northern continent was to try and gain access to some Indian village, and, this point attained, to build a cabin and as soon as opportunity offered, announce the Word of God to all who would receive it.

  56. Before leaving Paris, the missioners had the honour of two interviews with the Queen, Anne of Austria, who then expressed and ever after manifested the liveliest interest in their great work.

  57. As soon as affairs appeared sufficiently promising, he invited missioners to the spiritually destitute land.

  58. Ou, as sounded in you, is of this description; to distinguish it from the articulated sounds, the early missioners marked it by the figure 8.

  59. Undeterred by the certainty of privation and suffering, new missioners continued to swell the ranks and aid the work.

  60. Several years after, missioners were amazed and charmed at finding a little band of fervent Christians in the very centre of heathen vice and barbarism.

  61. The reputation of her zeal had even reached New France, whence she received urgent petitions from the missioners to hasten, to the aid of their dear converts.

  62. Our limits do not permit us to dwell on the heroism of the missioners in the daily, hourly sacrifices of their crucified lives, ending for very many among them in death by a cruel martyrdom.

  63. The forms of the verb thus vary to infinity, and hence arose the immense difficulty to the missioners of learning the languages.

  64. It now occurred to her to institute an order of health-missioners as such.

  65. Fifteen missioners were sent out from England under commission from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

  66. Most of the missioners themselves stated that it was a unique experience in their life and work.

  67. Nelson was the last diocese to be worked, but special farewell visits were made by individual missioners to parishes in which they had laboured in the earlier part of the course.

  68. Brother Albert, of Pisa, had sent missioners into Upper and Lower Germany, with great success.

  69. Angelo of Pisa, one of the missioners sent by St. Francis, was the first warden of the Parisian convent.

  70. The latter maintained a constant correspondence with Jesuits, even with the missioners in China.

  71. Meat was out of the question except where the missioners themselves imported live stock and kept a farm of their own; variety of fruit depended also on their own exertions.

  72. A more serious charge, often made in India, is that missioners destroy the sanctions of morality by undermining the traditional beliefs of the natives, and that the convert is neither a good Asiatic nor a passable European.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "missioners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.