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Example sentences for "monstrance"

Lexicographically close words:
monsoons; monster; monsterous; monsters; monstra; monstrances; monstrat; monstre; monstrer; monstres
  1. In the Sacristy is a fine monstrance by Juan de Arfe.

  2. It includes a wonderful monstrance by that prince of goldsmiths, Juan de Arfe; and something more interesting in the shape of keys presented to St. Ferdinand on the surrender of the city.

  3. After the choir sings, the priest says the prayer and goes up and blesses the people with the Blessed Sacrament; that is, when he holds up the monstrance over the people Our Lord Himself blesses them.

  4. Sunburst standards modelled in imitation of snow crystal, and resembling monstrance used in Catholic church; two at south of court; only large light sources in court; contrast with other illumination.

  5. They are like the monstrance used in the Catholic Church, to hold the sacred host, the wafer that is accepted by the faithful as the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

  6. In the same way they might take from us the other element and give us the empty monstrance to kiss as a relic, and at last abolish everything that Christ has instituted.

  7. It is a monstrance of burning gold, shining out in the depths of the darkness with a perpetual sparkle of moving stars.

  8. But all at once, when the Blessed Sacrament passed by, and she saw the star-like monstrance sparkling in the sun, a sensation of dizziness came over her.

  9. As if it had been some golden monstrance which the Divinity in person would soon deign to occupy, that throne dazzled them, disturbed them, filled them all with devout rapture.

  10. When the slanting sun fell upon him in front, the monstrance itself looked like another sun.

  11. He walked up to the little altar to place the monstrance on it.

  12. Without a word, without a sign of displeasure, he turned to the rock and placed the monstrance on a projecting stone.

  13. The Church door is open, and at a certain moment the monstrance on the altar is visible in the light of the sun.

  14. Sunlight now falls on the monstrance in the church above, so that it shines like a window pane at sunset.

  15. Holding a monstrance in his hands, he went to the prison and asked for the prisoner, placing the monstrance on a table at the prison gate.

  16. He stood there in the raiment of a king, and the gates of the jewelled shrine flew open, and from the crystal of the many-rayed monstrance shone a marvellous and mystical light.

  17. And those who will may guess what Karl Heinz saw when the mist cleared from before the monstrance in the priest's hands.

  18. It was a true mascot, a monstrance of human love; for Sylvia it had a sacramental, almost a divine significance.

  19. The altar-rail is the sudden and meagre boundary line between two worlds; he holds in his hand a Birmingham monstrance, and the monstrance holds the Host.

  20. They attacked at dawn, and the father rector and another father and a brother had no little trouble in escaping; they were scarcely able to remove the monstrance of the most holy sacrament, and to hide it in a thicket.

  21. On the twentieth of December, at eight o'clock in the evening, they omitted the holy sacrament in the Cathedral church of this city, because it had been stolen, together with the monstrance in which it was kept.

  22. The monstrance and host kept in the cathedral are stolen by sacrilegious hands, (an occurrence which causes the death of Archbishop Serrano).

  23. This monstrance was given by Bishop Dom Jorge d'Almeida who died in 1543, having governed the see for sixty-two years.

  24. You are thinking of the monstrance which should have been of gold but was of silver?

  25. When you were sick and near death you made a vow to the Lord that in case of recovery you would give a monstrance of pure gold to the convent church.

  26. In 1513 the monstrance at the cathedral of Cordova was also made by Arphe, it is similar in style and importance to that of Toledo.

  27. This monstrance is covered also with jewels of great value which almost conceal it, the gifts of royal personages.

  28. As the monstrance came opposite, tears began to stream from the child's eyes, hitherto closed.

  29. The monstrance had reached the image once again, and was advancing down the middle.

  30. Amongst the treasures of Schloss Ambras is the monstrance in which the Host was carried by the priests of Zirl when they celebrated Mass for the comfort of the Emperor on Martinswand and offered up prayers for his deliverance.

  31. The sacristy contains a splendid silver monstrance by Arfe, and an Italian enamelled chalice of the fourteenth century by Petrucci Orto of Siena.

  32. Processions were always a great feature of mediaeval worship; hence the monstrance was frequently in use, especially on such occasions as the celebrations of Corpus Christi Day.

  33. At the conclusion the priest, his shoulders wrapped in the humeral veil, takes the monstrance and with it makes the sign of the cross over the kneeling congregation, whence the name Benediction.

  34. There was a pyx in silver, a paten in gold, and two smaller ones; a monstrance with some exceedingly fine diamonds and the topaz in it, and a gold chalice much indented.

  35. If you search the world through, read the curse upon Barbarossa, and all the volumes of anathema, you will never find such a blasting accusation as the man spoke when he saw the monstrance in my hand.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monstrance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ark; beads; burial; candle; case; catacombs; cenotaph; censer; cist; compact; cross; crucifix; cruet; crypt; dolmen; file; font; grave; icon; mausoleum; ossuary; phylactery; pit; pyramid; relic; reliquary; rood; rosary; sacramental; sepulcher; shrine; sprinkler; stupa; tabernacle; tomb; tope; vault