They had particular oratories where they went upon occasions of great distress, and drew blood from several parts of their body.
Besides this there were several other temples and publicoratories in the city, situated either in groups within a square, or scattered throughout the wards, and attended to by their special priests and servants.
They hadoratories in thick groves, and if they found a spot where a large tree grew over a spring, they held the place to be divine, because two divinities met in the tree and in the pool.
There were oratories raised to their honor in every ward that had two streets.
In or before these oratories the people offered cooked food to such images of the gods as they had there.
Upon the ruins of which temple and altar he erected two oratories or chapels; one bore the name of St. John the Baptist, the other of St. Martin.
Being made bishop in this last country, he filled it with oratories and churches, and by planting the true spirit of Christ in the hearts of many, settled that church in a most flourishing condition.
The Breviary of Aberdeen mentions that he founded one hundred and fifty churches and oratories in Scotland, and ascribes many miracles to his intercession after his death.
Others are the retreats which the primitive confessors of Scotland excavated or enlarged for their oratories or cells.
Others of the Scottish caves and oratories are less artificial in their character.
It is exceedingly likely that some of the primitive oratories of the first centuries of Scottish Christianity still exist on the remote sites frequently chosen by the ascetic missionaries of the faith.
In this case the long passage was outside the congeries of habitations, and was lighted on two floors by the windows of the recesses before alluded to as having been the oratories of past generations.
If the tradition be true, it renders the use to which these oratories are now applied, and the condition of the occupants of these dwellings, more sad and revolting by contrast.
The other law was for enlarging Christian oratories and churches, or for rebuilding them more grand and splendid.
Gained the top by a steep pull; snow before and behind; a crucifix, and oratories thicken upon our course as we draw near to the Hospice.
On the banks of the stream, hives and oratories were alternately ranged; and their neatness and whiteness were set off by the deep green of the cypresses that spired up amongst them.
Roman examples, but were based on expansions of the first oratories built, to which aisles had afterwards been added.
From the oratories of the Compagnie and the parlors of the convents this peculiar form of art was extended to the Courts and public theaters.
That they originated in the oratories of lay brotherhoods, and that they retained the character of Lauds to be sung after they had assumed dramatic shape, may be reckoned as established points.
It was customary to sing these compositions in the oratories after the discipline of the confraternity had been duly performed; and that they were sung, is a fact of importance which must never be forgotten.
Yet we have no exact means of ascertaining when the Laudesi left their oratories and began to recite Divozioni with action in church or on the open square.
In writing of the Early Churches orOratories of Ireland, Dr.
But even in parts where wood was easily procured, oratories seem to have been sometimes, from an early period, built of stone.
Petrie, the average of the smaller type of churches or oratories may be stated to be about 15 feet in length, and 10 feet in breadth, though they show no fixed similarity in regard to size.
Most of the old oratories and houses raised by the early Irish and Scottish saints were undoubtedly built of wattles, wood, or clay, and other perishable materials, and of necessity were soon lost.
Such built-passages are often found in Ireland connected with small churches and oratories of the sixth and seventh centuries, but never, to my knowledge, with any of a later age.
Footnote 85: South doorways are certainly very rarely to be met with in the very ancient churches or oratories in Ireland.
Stone-roofed oratories of a more complex and elaborate architectural character than that of Inchcolm still exist in Ireland, and of a supposed very early date.
There can hardly be any doubt that it was then these villages of beehive cells and stone oratories at Kilmalkedar and Gallerus, as well as on the Blasquet Islands, were built for the accommodation of the disciples of St. Brendan.
Thus we have in the single townland of Killeany no less than seven or eight churches and oratories, grouped together around the oratories of St. Enda and of St. Benignus.
There were other chapels and sepulchral oratories at Clonmacnoise, which have now completely disappeared, and to which it is unnecessary for us to make further reference.
Of these small oratoriesthe most complete model now remaining belongs to the Ptolemaic period; namely, the temple of Hathor at Deir el Medineh (fig.
They erected chapels and oratories on the terraced roofs, and reserved space for the construction of secret passages and crypts in the thickness of the walls, wherein to hide the treasure of the god (fig.
The houses[61] and oratories of noble and burgess were rich with ivories exquisitely carved, with sculptures and paintings, tapestry and enamels: the very utensils of common domestic use were beautiful.
This spirit found some expression in the great number of Oratories in the leading private houses, that were licensed, all over the Western Diocese.
The lower chapel--now the church of the Contrada--is the one referred to in these documents, the upper oratories being the result of later acts of devotion.
Oratories and churches built over the tombs of martyrs and confessors.
The poor Santons, filled with holy energy, having bustled to light up wax torches in their oratories and expand the Koran on their ebony desks, went forth to meet the Caliph with baskets of honeycomb, dates, and melons.
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