From many sides come remarks that Protestant churches are badly attended and the large medieval cathedrals look all but empty during services.

There had been large marble reliefs used previously in Roman churches, but for most patrons, sculpted marble altarpieces were far too costly.

The Roman Catholic parish of Bodmin includes a large area of North Cornwall and there are churches also at Wadebridge, Padstow and Tintagel.

These churches also often have a dome or other large vaulted space in the interior to represent or draw attention to the heavens.

Thousands of priests and bishops were harassed or imprisoned, with large fines and closures of Catholic churches and schools.

These missions tended to found monastic institutions and collegiate churches that served large areas.

Russian icons are typically paintings on wood, often small, though some in churches and monasteries may be as large as a table top.

They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

Slavic prince Pribina began to build in January 846 a large fortress as his seat of power and several churches in the region of Lake Balaton, in a territory of modern Zalavár surrounded by forests and swamps along the river Zala.

Ministers are appointed to Circuits rather than to individual churches ( though some large inner-city churches, known as Central Halls, are designated as circuits in themselves – Westminster Central Hall, opposite Westminster Abbey in central London is the best known ).

Although the major churches are under indigenous leadership, a large number of missionaries remain in the country.

Comprising over 700 denominations and a large amount of independent churches, there is no central authority governing Pentecostalism ; however, many denominations are affiliated with the Pentecostal World Fellowship.

The program of dechristianisation waged against Catholicism, and eventually against all forms of Christianity, included the deportation or execution of clergy ; the closing of churches ; the rise of cults and the institution of a civic religion ; the large scale destruction of religious monuments ; the outlawing of public and private worship and religious education ; the forced abjurement of priests of their vows and forced marriages of the clergy ; the word " saint " being removed from street names ; and the War in the Vendée.

At that time, the chief source of information on the demography was provided by parish registration of baptisms, marriages, and burials that had occurred in the parish churches, supplemented by information on mortality in the Bills of Mortality that were published for certain large towns and by inferences drawn from various counts of taxpayers.

In Spain and Portugal, the Visigoths built several churches and left an increasing number of archaeological finds, but most notably a large number of Spanish, Portuguese given names and surnames.

On both sides of the Avenue de Paris were built the Notre-Dame neighborhood and the Saint-Louis neighborhood, with new large churches, markets, aristocratic mansions, all built in very homogeneous style according to the models established by the Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi.

In regards to larger structures and objects, Rococo might be appealing – although perhaps only because of its baroque roots that eventually become apparent –, but its fantastic overtones and features are not suitable for the large walls of most churches.

Flint was used in the construction of many churches, houses, and other buildings, for example the large stronghold of Framlingham Castle.

In Italy, with a few notable exceptions such as Florence Cathedral and Milan Cathedral, cathedrals are numerous and are often similar in form and size to monastic or large parish churches.

The nave is like an Italian basilica, while the large triple-apsed choir is like one of the early three-apsed churches, of which so many examples still exist in Syria and other Oriental countries.

The large cities like Marseille and Toulon saw the building of churches, opera houses, grand boulevards, and parks.

Other notable and / or large churches in Memphis include Second Presbyterian Church ( EPC ), Evergreen Presbyterian Church ( PCUSA ), Colonial Park United Methodist Church, Christ United Methodist Church, Idlewild Presbyterian Church ( PCUSA ), The Pentecostal Church ( UPCI ), Calvary Episcopal Church, and Elliston Baptist Church.

Pope Dionysius sent large sums of money to the churches of Cappadocia, which had been devastated by the marauding Goths, to rebuild and to ransom those held captive.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.

conduct engineering research and technical development work to determine, by laboratory and pilot plant testing, the results of the research and studies aforesaid in order to develop processes and plant designs to the point where they can be demonstrated on a large and practical scale ; ;

As soon as they are large enough to move, I put mine 9 inches apart where they are to bloom.

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

The blooms of Ribes and of the willow and sloe are the places where large numbers of our early insects will assemble: honeybees, bumblebees, and other wild bees, and also various kinds of flies.

Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.

then the search for the maximum at any one stage will require a number of operations of order Af ( where a is some number not unreasonably large ).

At one extreme are the systems of upper New York State, where libraries in two or more counties combine to serve a large, sparsely populated area.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

Cohen ( 1992 ) suggests effect sizes for various indexes, including ƒ ( where 0. 1 is a small effect, 0. 25 is a medium effect and 0. 4 is a large effect ).

He also offers a conversion table ( see Cohen, 1988, p. 283 ) for eta squared ( η < sup > 2 </ sup >) where 0. 0099 constitutes a small effect, 0. 0588 a medium effect and 0. 1379 a large effect.

Although the lowest salinity values are just north of the equator ( because of heavy tropical rainfall ), in general the lowest values are in the high latitudes and along coasts where large rivers enter.

In particular, this applies where large numbers of amateur astronomers with small telescopes are more effective than the relatively small number of large telescopes that are available to professional astronomers.

With two or more equally determined players, this can result in a " bidding war " where the attribute is driven up by increments to large sums.

Amethyst is produced in abundance from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil where it occurs in large geodes within volcanic rocks.

Communities would come together for an entire day of singing in a large building where they sat in four distinct areas surrounding an open space, one member directing the group as a whole.

Typically, these approaches follow a machine learning approach, where large numbers of manually rated photographs are used to " teach " a computer about what visual properties are of relevance to aesthetic quality.

Some immigrated to France, where they formed a large Jewish community, that outnumbered Jews in the United States, but relatively small compared to European Jews.

The turrets carried four. 50 inch ( 12. 7 mm ) machine guns, which were designed to be adjusted to converge at the single point where enemy aircraft were expected to appear at low altitude in conduction of strafing runs directed at large infantry and field artillery units.

His large house ( purchased in 1509 from the heirs of the astronomer Bernhard Walther ), where his workshop was located and where his widow lived until her death in 1539, remains a prominent Nuremberg landmark.

A lift will take visitors almost to the top – to the attic, where there is a small museum which contains large models of the Arc and tells its story from the time of its construction.

The large pillars called " Kose (' Mile ') Minar ", erected at intervals of two miles ( 3 km ) along the entire way between Agra and Ajmer mark the places where the royal pilgrims halted every day.

Some doubts have been raised about the long-term effectiveness of antipsychotics for schizophrenia, in part because two large international World Health Organization studies found individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia tend to have better long-term outcomes in developing countries ( where there is lower availability and use of antipsychotics and mental health problems are treated with more informal, community-led methods only ) than in developed countries.