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Example sentences for "parish priest"

  • As little is this first argument overcome by [the assertion] that the civil law provides that the regular who is a parish priest is immediately subject, in what pertains to that office, to the visitation and correction of the ordinary.

  • The soul of the missionary or parish priest has a thousand dangers in the solitude of a village; but with prayer and mortification he can overcome all.

  • As early as 1815 this showed itself in the prosecution of Diego Dilicado, parish priest of San Jorje in Coruña, because he had reported the existence there of a lodge to the public authorities and not to the Inquisition.

  • The son of a small proprietor, or even of a parish priest, may rise to the highest offices of State, whilst the descendants of the half-mythical Rurik may descend to the position of peasants.

  • When a parish priest dies, what is to become of his wife and daughters?

  • The Blagotchinny is a parish priest who is in direct relations with the Consistory of the Province, and who is supposed to exercise a strict supervision over all the other parish priests of his district.

  • I once danced with the daughter of a friar (parish priest of a neighbouring village), whilst he took another girl as his partner.

  • Up the river the rebels were increasing daily, and at Pasig a thousand of them threatened the civil guard, compelling that small force and the parish priest to take refuge in the belfry tower.

  • It will be convenient to us here to divide our study of his life in the parish under several headings: his house and furniture; dress and daily life; and his duties as a parish priest.

  • Martindale be Parish Priest at Marton, and to have like wages as Sir W.

  • In the poems of John Audelay, in the fifteenth century, a parish priest is described in-- His girdle harneshed with silver, his baselard hangs by.

  • Look on quietly, and you will see the poor fellow as sober a parish priest as yourself.

  • It was a melancholy work to have brought home a missionary, and secularized a parish priest!

  • No; her very aspect proves that a parish priest has no business to think of her.

  • The food and rest quickly revived his host's strength, and very soon Silvio could hardly believe that he was sitting at the table of a parish priest in the Sabina.

  • When you were a parish priest in the city?

  • Then there was no parish priest in Youghal; now it may almost be said there is nobody in Youghal but the parish priest!

  • At a meeting in Dublin in the autumn of 1885, a parish priest, the Rev.

  • A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

  • A dignitary or parish priest appointed by a bishop to exercise a limited jurisdiction in a particular town or district of a diocese.

  • The Happy Life of a Parish Priest in Sweden.

  • Sweden apart, the condition of a parish priest is in itself sufficiently happy: in Sweden, then, much more so.

  • All his rights as a citizen are restored, and he is free to enter the public service in any province of the empire, save only that of Riazan, in which he has served the altar as a parish priest.

  • Father Goumilef, a parish priest in the town of Riazan, applies for leave to give up his frock and re-enter the world.

  • A parish priest is a married man; must, in fact, be a married man; and no young deacon can obtain a church until he has first obtained a bride.

  • I am very much puzzled," said to me a parish priest, "by what is going on.

  • Many a parish priest in Ireland and America lives in greater style.

  • Purchase has brought peace,' said a parish priest.

  • Father Gilligan, parish priest at Carrick-on-Shannon, preached against boycotting the Sunday we were there.

  • Burke was educated at Seton Hall and is parish priest in Mt.

  • McManus was educated at Seton Hall and is parish priest in Newton, N.

  • Father John Sheppard, also educated at Seton Hall, is parish priest in Dover, N.


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