Within a week, Ambrose was baptized, ordained and duly consecrated bishop of Milan.

Probably due to the influence of Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( 959 – 988 ), Ælfheah was elected Bishop of Winchester in 984, and was consecrated on 19 October that year.

When Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter, he caused her to dwell in a house outside Zion, as Zion was consecrated because of its containing the Ark ( 2 Chron.

Alexander V died soon after, and on 25 May 1410 Cossa was consecrated pope, taking the name John XXIII.

This series was seen originally as that of the bishops of a particular see founded by one or more of the apostles, but it is generally understood today as meaning a series of bishops, regardless of see, each consecrated by other bishops themselves consecrated similarly in a succession going back to the apostles.

Only later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.

John Wesley a bishop or not, If he was episcopally consecrated, Wesley could not openly announce this without incurring the penalty of the Præmunire Act.

It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.

A church was planned in the 1930s but delayed by World War II: the Church of St Mary and St Petroc was eventually consecrated in 1965: it was built next to the already existing seminary.

* One & All Lodge No. 330 was consecrated on the 8 March 1810, it currently meets on the second Monday in each month

* Beacon Lodge No. 9425 was consecrated on the 15 February 1991, it currently meets on the third Tuesday in February, April, October & December, and the 4th Tuesday in May

* Saint Petrock Royal Arch Chapter No. 330 was consecrated on the 11 April 1878, it currently meets on the third Wednesday in January, March, May, July, September & November

* St Nicholas Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1188 was consecrated on the 30 March 1955, it currently meets on the third Thursday in February, April, June, August & October

* St Nicholas Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners No. 1188 was consecrated on the 2 June 1979, it currently meets on the second Thursday in March, May, September & November

* Conclave of Light of the Masonic & Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine No. 498 was consecrated on the 23 April 2009, it currently meets on the second Tuesday in January, July & November

Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012.

Constantinople was built over 6 years, and consecrated on 11 May 330.

In 1215 he went to Rome in order to report to the Curia on the condition and prospects of his mission, and was consecrated first " Bishop of Prussia " at the Fourth Council of the Lateran.

In reality, more often than not, Rome consecrated the clergy once it was notified by the kings who the incumbent would be.

The first bishop of Ethiopia, Saint Frumentius, was consecrated as Bishop of Axum by Pope Athanasius of Alexandria in 328 AD.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.