Cyril of Jerusalem ( 346 AD ) in the sixth of his Catechetical Lectures prefaces his history of the Manichaeans by a brief account of earlier heresies: Simon Magus, he says, had given out that he was going to be translated to heaven, and was actually careening through the air in a chariot drawn by demons when Peter and Paul knelt down and prayed, and their prayers brought him to earth a mangled corpse.

Before the battle, Oswald had a wooden cross erected ; he knelt down, holding the cross in position until enough earth had been thrown in the hole to make it stand firm.

He removed his garments without assistance, knelt down, and prayed.

A seminal moment came in December 1970 with the famous Warschauer Kniefall in which Brandt, apparently spontaneously, knelt down at the monument to victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Finding on his arrival that the prisoners were suffering from lack of water, he knelt down in prayer.

... the Virgin knelt down with great veneration in an attitude of prayer, and her back was turned to the manger .... And while she was standing thus in prayer, I saw the child in her womb move and suddenly in a moment she gave birth to her son, from whom radiated such an ineffable light and splendour, that the sun was not comparable to it, nor did the candle that St. Joseph had put there, give any light at all, the divine light totally annihilating the material light of the candle ....

The small stream is said to mark the boundary of the Kingdom of Mourne and legend has it that there is a rock in the stream with his hand print in it where he knelt down to drink the water.

She was pronounced dead at 2: 10 p. m. Everyone knelt down and prayed for the repose of her soul, and Countess Sztaray closed Elisabeth's eyes and joined her hands.

He states that, without thinking, he went to the room where his grandfather's body was and knelt down to pray over him.

The elephant knelt down three times in reverence and then, following a wave of his Indian mahout ( keeper ), aspired to a bucket of water with his trunk and splashed it over the crowd and the Cardinals.

It is said that they knelt down three times as the Pope made the sign of the cross with a sweeping gesture extending from one end of the mountain to the other.

When they knelt down, it also came down with a big bang.

Guan Yu was not very appreciative towards Cao Cao's other gifts, but when Cao gave him the steed, he knelt down and thanked Cao.

Bernadette knelt down immediately, saying she saw aquero again and falling into a trance.

Bankes was given a last show to redeem himself, and during the performance Marocco knelt down before a cross held by one of the priests of the city, " proving " he was not of the devil.

Joinville also recounts incidents that demonstrate Margaret's good humor, as on one occasion when Joinville sent her some fine cloth and, when the queen saw his messenger arrive carrying them, she mistakenly knelt down thinking that he was bringing her holy relics.

Upon his return to Bangalore, he knelt down in front of the helicopter with his hands folded and paid respect to the Karnataka soil highlighting his Kannada pride.

Coming to the dead, naked body of the one who preceeded, each inmate knelt at the corpse's feet and then lay face down upon in order to be shot in the back of neck.

Fowler claimed in his autobiography that he knelt down to close Short's eyes before Paegel began shooting pictures.

Seeing the Germans were gaining ground, fearful for the safety of their treasure, they suddenly knelt down and renewed their vow to God that they would perish for their country ".

Sehorn immediately walked up to Harmon, knelt down on one knee and proposed.

When he arrived on the scene, he put all of the mourners out of the room whereupon he " knelt down and prayed.

On the way my camel knelt down for it was the weakest among all the other camels and so I wept.

Down the tree he scrambled and knelt at the edge of foliage.

I knelt, just for decency I thought at the time, but found myself whispering, `` Our Father which Art in Heaven '' And it was only after that that something unlocked in me and I felt a grief.

After declaring the site at which they were standing would be the location of the new school, they knelt in the snow and conducted a dedication service.

The eventual composition of Roméo et Juliette as we know it now was made possible by the generous gift of 20, 000 francs by Niccolò Paganini ; after hearing a performance of Harold en Italie at the Paris Conservatoire on 16 December 1838, the great virtuoso had publicly knelt before Berlioz and hailed him as the heir of Beethoven.

At night, alone with me in the dormitory, he rushed to my bed, knelt at my side, and threw his arms around me and kissed me, and cried, and kissed me.

He recalled especially Rousseau's statue at the Panthéon (" I almost knelt before it ... he whom Tolstoy described as the conscience of the 18th century "), the River Seine and the tollings of the Notre Dame.

Despite attending each evening service during the fall campaign, and after two previous unsuccessful attempts to pray through to spiritual victory during those meetings, on November 20, 1850, Crosby left her pew again and knelt at the " anxious seat " at the front of the church sanctuary, and sought an assurance of her salvation.

According to De Sales ' Selected Letters, the " torment of despair came to a sudden end " as he knelt in prayer before the statue of Our Lady of Good Deliverance ( the Black Madonna ) at the church of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Paris, saying the Memorare.

According to cathedral authorities, when half a dozen Austrian Muslims, who were part of a group of 118 people on an organized tour for young European Muslims, knelt to pray at the same time, security guards stepped in and “ invited them to continue with their tour or leave the building ”.

In December 1982, an intoxicated Salvadoran immigrant broke into the cemetery at night and knelt before the eternal flame.

On May 13, 1923, the war orphan Amilcar Săndulescu, student at the " Dimitrie Sturdza " Military High School, knelt in front of the fourth coffin and said: " This is my father ".

As dean of Peterborough, Richard Fletcher, at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay " knelt down on the scaffold steps and started to pray out loud and at length, in a prolonged and rhetorical style as though determined to force his way into the pages of history ".

In March 2003, Morrison was charged with a misdemeanor offense for assaulting " American Taliban " John Walker Lindh as he knelt for evening prayers in the chapel at U. S. P.

He knelt and blessed the glen at the spot where the house " Beannach Aonghais " ( Gaelic ' blessing of Angus ') now stands and built a stone oratory at Kirkton, where he spent the rest of his life.

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Had the Giants knelt on the subsequent play, there still would have been one second left on the game clock once the play clock ran down, requiring a fourth-down play to be run ( the play clock at the time ran for 30 seconds ; it now runs for 40 ).

Though Nelson's lawyer James Herbert Stitt attempted to portray Nelson as mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his crimes, the jury found Nelson guilty of the Winnipeg slaying of Emily Patterson, found strangled underneath her own bed by her husband who had knelt by the bed to pray for her safe return after finding her missing on the afternoon of June 9.

As soon as he got home he went to his bed where he knelt and prayed.