Suspecting him of sarcasm, the strangers retired deeply mortified, and they complained to the Canons that they were much disappointed in the Prior, who evidently was not so saintly a man as rumour had led them to believe.
And, further, we are assured that she set herself to make profit of her sacrifice by emulating in her own person the holy life of her son John, and his saintly masters, Hinckaert and van Coudenberg.
They objected that the enclosure was not consecrated: he responded that one day it would be the site of a monastery, the home of saintly Religious, and the Mother-house of a holy congregation.
Five years later his saintly associate, the Provost Francis van Coudenberg, rejoined him beyond the grave.
In the meanwhile, though dead some two hundred years, the saintly character of Wulfstan suffered no diminution, and was turned to profitable use by the monks soon after 1203, the year of his canonisation.
For so saintly a man must not be taken as a hater of women, or his beatification as the son of a woman would have no sense, and would call his incorruptibility into question, and his saintliness of character in grave doubt.
But in the days of saintly Alphege, in 1005, the Danish invaders fell upon the city, making of the church a ruin, and of its bishop a martyr.
Still and solemn in its saintly evening rest, lay the beautiful earth everywhere.
Severe and saintly righteousness Compos'd the clear white bridal dress; Jesus, the son of Heaven's high King Bought with his blood the marriage ring.
But when the sculptur'd marble is raised o'er my head, And the matchless Blanch lies lifeless among the noble dead, This saintly Lady Abbess has made me justly fear.
The spirit of patience did seem so to rest upon him and his dear saintly wife.
My dear, dear Uncle,--How can I thank you enough for telling me so much of dear saintly Mr. Keble and his wife?
The saintly king purchased from Baldwin, Emperor of Constantinople, the veritable Crown of Thorns, and a fragment of the True Cross--paying for these relics an immense sum of money.
These you will meet at the house of the Countess Belverde, one of the Duchess's ladies, a woman of sound judgment and scrupulous piety, who gathers about her all our most learned and saintly ecclesiastics.
In the conversation of these saintly nuns, and of the holy Abbot of the Barnabites, you will find the surest safeguard against those errors and temptations that beset your age.
It began with thesaintly and earnest Keble; its master spirits were John Henry Newman and Dr.
Saxon England, with all its tumults, seems to mesaintly and beautiful.
Sick persons, Elia said, were expected to edify others by their resigned and saintly demeanour, not by singing so loud that they could be heard outside the palace walls.
Built by Pietro, a saintly abbot of the monastery in the tenth century, it seems to have remained for a long period almost untouched; in the fourteenth century the campanile was considered one of the wonders of Italy.
It is very curious to remember that these peaceful saintly pictures were painted when daily brawls were taking place in the city, even while her chief Piazza streamed with the blood of nobles and Raspanti.
While the girl listened to the saintly preacher, her heart and mind were deeply stirred; she determined to ask the Poverello's advice in her trouble.
San Giovanni in Fiore is exempt from earthquakes and epidemics because it is under the protection of Saint John the Baptist, and because its provincial councillor is a saintly man.
And under the influence of Mary-worship a new kind of saintlyphysiognomy was elaborated, as we can see from contemporary prints and pictures.
Those honourable saintly combats of the past with external enemies and plagues and stormy seasons were transplanted from without into the microcosm within, taking the shape of hallucinations and demon-temptations.
Spectres, likewise, are these saintly caricatures of humanity, perambulating metaphysics, the application in corpore vili of Oriental fakirism.
Footnote: The scandals that occasionally arise in connection with that saintly institution, the Foundling Hospital at Naples, are enough to make humanity shudder.
Thence one might argue that the cult of credulity implied by these saintly biographies is responsible for this laxness, for the general disregard of veracity.
On these occasions he usually invited his cousin Braga, with her saintly little daughters, to keep him company.
He invaded Northumbria, and killed the good and saintly Oswald at the battle of Maserfield, probably at Winwick in Lancashire, in the year 642.
She thus put into practice the charge of her saintly kinsman, King Louis the Ninth, who always counselled those about him to have compassion on all mental or physical suffering, since the heart may be stricken as well as the body.
I warn you that my saintlyuncle is not beyond misfortune, nor his milksop partner, the Reverend Gabriel Bennet.
Some mothers would die of the sight; others give themselves up to it in saintly adoration.
All very well for monseigneur; he's a saintly man.
So he cried as he strode; and the crucifix on his lance and the saintly words on his lips were better than trumpets, better than a hundred Cids in reserve.
It is the perfect balance in a saintly soul of feeling, creed, communion, and work.
In the clear obscure of that prophecy we may discern the outline of Peter's cross, the bowed figure of the saintly old man.
The instinct that speaks of "the saintly Fletcher" gives the same designation to his wife.
Like other saintly men, he found that the impulses, even of the regenerate life, may not be left to themselves with entire confidence in their sufficient working.
Then she added as an afterthought, with a saintly look in her eyes, that he must love God.
She exhaled an atmosphere of gentleness mixed with a saintly coquetry, which produced an impression at once human and divine, such as one receives from the sight of a rose in a Bible or a curl in the hair of a saint.
Malcolm, king of the Scots, was a rude warrior who had been tamed into an outward show of piety by his saintly wife, Margaret, the sister of Eadgar the Ætheling.
Edmund Rich, a saintly man, who had recently become Archbishop of Canterbury, protested against his misdeeds.
I have a much less saintly personage: my ideal is Alexander the Great.
She was born at Fochard, near Dundalk, about the year 453, where her parents happened to be staying at the time; but Kildare was their usual place of residence, and there the holy virgin began her saintly career.
St. Adamnan, whose fame as the biographer of St. Columba has added even more to the lustre of his name than his long and saintly rule over the Monastery of Iona, was of the race of the northern Hy-Nials.
The Annals give the obituaries of some saintly men, whose lives redeemed the age from the character for barbarity, which its secular literature would seem to justify.
This venerable prelate had attained his eightieth year, but he was full of the vigour of saintly heroism.
This interesting work affords full details of the character of the witnesses, the nature of the trial, and the Bishop's saintly end.
There is no doubt that there was much which required amendment, and no one was more conscious of this, or strove more earnestly to effect it, than the saintly prelate who governed the archiepiscopal see of Dublin.
