His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent unaffiliated with the Anglican Church.

Barker was a devout Anglican, and donated her artworks to Christian fundraisers and missionary organizations.

As a devout Anglican and believer in scriptural authority, part of Jennens's intention was to challenge advocates of Deism, who rejected the doctrine of divine intervention in human affairs.

A devout Anglican, he was also given control over ecclesiastical matters.

Dudeney was a devout Anglican who regularly attended services, studied theology, and on occasion wrote tracts defending church positions.

Eventually, Davy " crossed the room " to became a devout Anglican Christian herself ; she had reexamined her life and views on the nature of sin after a thwarted attempt by a stranger to assault her.

Brought up in a devout Buddhist family, he entered the prestigious Anglican school S. Thomas ' College.

As a devout Anglican of the high church tradition, Cripps was very active in church affairs and was appointed Vicar-General of York in 1900 and of Canterbury in 1902.

Evening Prayer, like Morning Prayer ( Mattins ) and in contrast to the Eucharist, may be led by a layperson, and is recited by some devout Anglicans daily in private ( clergy in many Anglican jurisdictions are required to do so ).

Grace was a devout Catholic, which sometimes created tension with husband Dave, who was a non-practising Anglican.

Evie Hone was extremely devout ; she spent time in an Anglican Convent in 1925 and converted to Catholicism in 1937.

He was a devout Anglican and died in 1929.

Converted by Asbury, the previously devout Anglican family became members of the Methodist Church.

His grandmother was a devout Methodist ; his parents, John and Martha, were not practicing Christians although they took young Smith to Methodist and Anglican churches on regular occasions.

As a young man he produced a manuscript titled " Why I have discarded Evolution ", causing some scholars to describe him as a devout Methodist Episcopalian, who was impressed with fundamentalism, and perhaps supportive of creationism.

It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

Dollfuss, who was raised as a devout Roman Catholic, was shortly in seminary before deciding to study law at the University of Vienna and then economics at the University of Berlin.

While he was a devout Muslim who could recite the Koran, he was opposed to fanaticism and joked freely about Islam.

On the coming of his age, Gregory married a woman called Miriam a devout Christian who was the daughter of a Christian Armenian Prince in Cappadocia.

The culture war gave secularists and socialists an opportunity to attack all religions, an outcome that distressed the Protestants, including Bismarck, who was a devout pietistic Protestant.

As a boy, Pei was very close to his mother, a devout Buddhist who was recognized for her skills as a flautist.

Jain ideas and practices powerfully influenced Gandhi, particularly through his mother, who was a devout Jain.

Over time, Weber would also be significantly affected by the marital tension between his father, " a man who enjoyed earthly pleasures ," and his mother, a devout Calvinist " who sought to lead an ascetic life.

His wife, Wen Ch ' i-mei, was illiterate but a devout Buddhist who tried to temper her husband's strict attitude towards both his children and other locals.

Her mother, Anne ( Purcell ) Higgins, was a devout Catholic who went through 18 pregnancies ( with 11 live births ) in 22 years before dying at age 50 of tuberculosis and cervical cancer.

Webster in early life was something of a freethinker, but in 1808 he became a convert to Calvinistic orthodoxy, and thereafter became a devout Congregationalist who preached the need to Christianize the nation.

Later she would become a close friend with the devout Françoise d ' Aubigné, better known as Madame de Maintenon, the lady-in-waiting who would later become the second wife of Louis XIV.

Bismarck, a devout Lutheran was loyal to his king, who in turn gave Bismarck his full support.

Ti Kuan Yin, which in Chinese means “ Iron Goddess .” There was once a poor farmer who was devout and dedicated to maintaining the temple of Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy.

It is the business of the pope to look after the interests of the Roman empire, since the empire derives its origin and its final authority from the papacy ; its origin, because it was originally transferred from Greece by and for the sake of the papacy ... its final authority, because the emperor is raised to his position by the pope who blesses him, crowns him and invests him with the empire .... Therefore, since three persons have lately been elected king by different parties, namely the youth son of Henry VI, Philip Hohenstaufen, brother of Henry VI, and Otto Brunswick, of the Welf family, so also three things must be taken into account in regard to each one, namely: the legality, the suitability and the expediency of his election ...... Far be it from us that we should defer to man rather than to God, or that we should fear the countenance of the powerful .... On the foregoing grounds, then, we decide that the youth should not at present be given the empire ; we utterly reject Philip for his manifest unfitness and we order his usurpation to be resisted by all .... since Otto is not only himself devoted to the church, but comes from devout ancestors on both sides ..... therefore we decree that he ought to be accepted and supported as king, and ought to be given the crown of empire, after the rights of the Roman church have been secured.

His mother, a devout Catholic from Corscia, was once a professional singer, while his father, an assimilated Jew who had converted to Protestantism, ran a successful wine-export business.

Despite the efforts of Kealty, various members of his administration and Pavel Laska, Kealty's kingmaker and a devout enemy of Ryan who sought to bring Ryan's administration down by connecting him to a then-fugitive John Clark, Ryan wins the election by a narrow margin ; overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him.

This extended to Edward's elder sister, the daughter of Catherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor, who was a pious and devout Catholic.

Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in the campus of St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, Bengal, India ( British India ), to Ernest Hartley, an English officer in the Indian Cavalry, and Gertrude Mary Robinson Yackjee ( 1888-1972 ), a devout Roman Catholic of Irish and Armenian descent, the daughter of Mary I. Robinson and John G. Yackjee, who wed in 1872.

His mother, a devout Methodist, was a midwife who later obtained her medical license.

Examples include Shadowcat, Sabra and Magneto who are Jewish, Dust who is a devout Muslim, Nightcrawler who is a devout Catholic, and Neal Shaara / Thunderbird who is Hindu.

As Mrs. Letch Feeley, was it any wonder that I, once the social arbiter of Filmdom, was excluded from the smart entertainments given by the Astaires, the Coopers, the Gables, the Colmans, the Rathbones, the Taylors, the Thalbergs and such devout, closely knit families as the Barrymores and the Crosbys??

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

His mother was a devout woman, so Ampère was also initiated into the Catholic faith along with Enlightenment science.

This was connected to a devout religiosity that declared depiction of living things in art an immoral rivalry to Allah's creation.

Among these gifts was reputed to be a piece of the true cross, a true treasure for the devout Saxon king.

Ānanda was one of the principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha.

Even Houbraken recalled that Cuyp was a devout Calvinist and the fact that when he died, there were no paintings of other artists found in his home.

Jabarah remembered Haznawi specifically, saying that he was " very devout and could recite the entire Koran from memory ".

Associated perhaps initially with Jesus People and the Christian counterculture, born again came to refer to a conversion experience, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in order to be saved from Hell and given eternal life with God in Heaven, and was increasingly used as a term to identify devout believers.

His father, Walter A. Rogers, was a civil engineer and his mother, Julia M. Cushing, was a housewife and devout Pentecostal Christian.

Mary, a devout Catholic, was determined to crush the Protestant faith in which Elizabeth had been educated, and she ordered that everyone attend Catholic Mass ; Elizabeth had to outwardly conform.

Although he was not a particularly devout Catholic, he " regularly used Catholic images and themes his films ".