If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.

Lacey's report to Major General John Armstrong further documented the atrocities: " Some of the unfortunate, who fell into the merciless hands of the British, were more cruelly and inhumanely butchered.

This suspicion was heightened, when the crew of the discovery boat came aboard and informed the captain they had come across a new moccasin as well as the partially butchered remains of a seal.

Portraits of Marx and Lenin were posted on every street corner, and horrific tales began to filter in from surrounding villages of priests being shot and wealthy men being butchered in front of their families.

After packing his things, Henry leaves through the front door of his house, nonchalantly passing the butchered remains of his family, Vicki, Jill and a grown male relative along with a grown female relative, whom he had earlier murdered.

family resident in S. Africa, most of whom fought in both wars, who became a Catholic after sheltering the Carmelite fathers in Barcelona — in vain, they were caught & butchered, and R. C.

This bogus aspect of the military hero's life is his alleged policy of having all of his enemies butchered and served up to him and his family as delectable gourmet meals.

" The old priest, Eli, fell dead when he heard it ; and his daughter-in-law, bearing a son at the time the news of the capture of the Ark was received, named him Ichabod — explained as " The glory has departed Israel.

* June 17, 809 (): In the 4th year of Emperor Heizei's reign, he fell ill and abdicated ; and the succession ( senso ) was received by Kammu's second son Saga, the eldest son having become a Buddhist priest.

In the end, White fell into a Dublin controversy over the confessions of an intriguing priest, which threatened the authority of the Queen's deputised government in Ireland ; out of caution Cecil withdrew his longstanding protection, and the judge was imprisoned in London and died soon after.

" After Hidalgo's death leadership of the revolution fell to a zambo / mestizo priest named José María Morelos, who led insurgent troops in the Mexican south.

According to the traditional rabbinic interpretation, in the early part of the Bible, as recorded in the Book of Genesis, the duties of a priest fell upon the eldest son of each family.

In 1895, José Turiano Santiago, a close personal friend of Bonifacio, was expelled because a coded message of the Katipunan fell into the hands of a Spanish priest teaching at the University of Santo Tomas.

After the fall of the Templars the church, along with the rest of the Temple, fell into the hands of the Knights Hospitaller, and from there passed to Henry VIII, who appointed a priest, known as the Master of the Temple.

Smith brought the Share The Wealth Society into a brief coalition with the followers of radio priest Charles Coughlin and old-age pension advocate Francis Townsend in support of the short-lived Union Party, a third party effort which ran William Lemke of North Dakota for President in 1936, but under his leadership, the Share Our Wealth movement quickly fell apart.

There he became the royal priest, and the sister of the king, Jīva, fell in love with him.

A notorious incident in which Sheehan ’ s colleague satiric poet and journalist Francis Sylvester Mahony, Father Prout ( 1804 – 1866 ) fell out with Celbridge parish priest James Callinan took place at Sheehan ’ s home in Celbridge in 1830.

Venice, 1652, 59 ) and by Antoninus of Florence ( Chronica, III, 19, xiii, 1 ), the latter, however, does not say ( as the local legend claims ) that the priest doubted the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, but, merely that a few drops from the chalice fell upon the corporal.

The Lusitanians practiced human sacrifice and when a priest wounded a prisoner in the stomach they made predictions by the way the victim fell down and by the appearance of the victim's innards.

In the papal Mass a cardinal-bishop acted as assistant priest ; this honor fell on the most solemn occasions to the Cardinal-bishop of Ostia, the Dean of the College of Cardinals.

Lucklily for the priest, the lot fell upon the ox.

Lucklily for the priest, the lot fell upon the ox.

Father Lee was sent as a missionary priest from All Hallows College, Dublin and was initially based in Johnstone, as Kilbirnie fell within the archdiocese of Glasgow in those days.

In April 2010, Cardinal Brady, who was under pressure to resign and had publicly stated he was considering his position over his role in the cover-up of the activities of a paedophile priest, was officiating at a confirmation ceremony in the parish church of Kildress in County Tyrone, when he fell ill.

Before he dies, Rochester asks the priest to recite Isaiah verse 53 ; he also asks his wife to retell the story of how he had abducted her as an 18 year old lady when they fell in love.

One day, a handsome visiting priest named Anchin fell in love with a beautiful woman named Kiyohime, but after a time he overcame his passions and refrained from further meetings.

* Kiyohime 清姫 " Purity Princess " was a teahouse waitress who fell in love with a young Buddhist priest.

That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??

In this effort, precursors of the National Conference of Christians and Jews created teams consisting of a priest, a rabbi, and a minister, to run programs across the country, and fashion a more pluralistic America, no longer defined as a Christian land, but " one nurtured by three ennobling traditions: Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism.

Later, they stumble across a group of non-possessed children and Father Horst, a Christian priest who led them to escape the settlement, and try to protect them from the attacks by the increasingly effective possessed humans, the weapons of the mercenaries of limited use, and their numbers insufficient to fend off the attackers.

In his message " The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word " to priests for the 44th World Communications Day ( 16 May 2010 ), Pope Benedict XVI called for them to become digital citizens and engage with the information society, saying, " Priests stand at the threshold of a new era: as new technologies create deeper forms of relationship across greater distances, they are called to respond pastorally by putting the media ever more effectively at the service of the Word .... Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology, a pastoral outreach capable of making God concretely present in today ’ s world and presenting the religious wisdom of the past as a treasure which can inspire our efforts to live in the present with dignity while building a better future?

In the past, and well into the 20th century, whenever the seas were too rough for the Gozitan priest to make the crossing to Comino for the celebration of Holy Mass, the local community would gather on the rocks at a part of the Island known as Tal-Ħmara, and gaze across the channel towards the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rocks ( Maltese: il-Madonna tal-Blat ), in Ħondoq ir-Rummien, Gozo, where Mass was being celebrated.

On his way to Amsterdam, Fadrique came across Naarden, which surrendered on 22 November 1572 ; and to set another example, Fadrique herded all of Naarden's citizens ( reportedly including a Roman Catholic priest ) into their church, which was subsequently set on fire.

Family and friends of the victims and many people from across the Metro Detroit area including local media attended and a local priest read each name aloud.

David Lyon, by now the only Scottish Episcopal priest ministering to a flock scattered across the West of Scotland, took part in the secret meeting held in Moffat in 1769 to discuss a Protestant bride for Bonnie Prince Charlie.

While still in high school he was working alongside an inspector with the Department of Agriculture when he came across a bee ranch owned by a priest who had just died.

The delicate medieval screen now enclosing the vestry was originally placed across the arch separating the chancel ( occupied only by the priest and assistants ), from the nave ( used by the people ).

* MojaveDesert. net: Francisco Garcés-" Missionary priest who led an expedition across the Mojave "-history webpage

Coraje and his friends come across Father John, a priest who has been assaulted by thieves while on his way to take over the parish at a church in La Cruz.

To find the priest hole, go up the stairs into the attic ( leading from the landing in the oldest part of the Manor ) and across to the opposite wall, just to the right of the staircase.

In Byzantine usage, an antimension signed by the bishop is kept on the altar partly as a reminder of whose altar it is and under whose omophorion the priest at a local parish is serving.

The congregation lighting their candles from the new flame, just as the priest has retrieved it from the altar — note that the picture is Flash ( photography ) | flash-illuminated ; all electric lighting is off, and only the oil lamp s in front of the Iconostasis remain lit.

Two deacons go to priest-elect who, at that point, had been standing alone in the middle of the church, and bow him down to the west ( to the people ) and to the east ( to the clergy ), asking their consent by saying “ Command ye !” and then lead him through the holy doors of the altar where the archdeacon asks the bishop ’ s consent, saying, “ Command, most sacred master !” after which a priest escorts the candidate three times around the Holy Table, during which he kisses each corner of the Holy Table as well as the bishop's epigonation and right hand and prostrates himself before the holy table at each circuit.

* 1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $ 23. 4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

During this service the Canon of Great Saturday is repeated, at the end of which the priest and deacon take the epitaphios into the sanctuary through the Holy Doors and lay it on the Holy Table ( altar ), where it will remain until the feast of the Ascension.

Eastern Orthodox clergy: bishop ( right, at altar ), priest ( left ), and two deacon s ( in gold )

The priest enters, with a deacon, if there is one, and altar servers ( who may act as crucifer, torch-bearers and thurifer ).

The Liturgy of the Eucharist begins with the ceremonial placing of the gifts of bread and wine on the altar, after which the congregation stands, as the priest gives the exhortation to pray, " Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father.

The priest and people then depart in silence, and the altar cloth is removed, leaving the altar bare except for the cross and two or four candlesticks.

* " To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead ' st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?

* eastward-facing orientation of the priest at the altar ( not standing at the north side, the evangelical Anglican practice )

No offering of incense had been ordered ; the only legitimate incense offerings were those made daily by the high priest upon the sacred altar.

A priest ( or minister in Protestant circles ) celebrates at the altar, on which the bread and the wine are placed.

In almost all cases, the eastward orientation for prayer was maintained, whether the altar was at the west end of the church, as in all the earliest churches in Rome, in which case, the priest celebrating Mass faced the congregation and the church entrance, or whether it was at the east end of the church, in which case the priest faced the eastern apse and had his back to the congregation.

Such altars are found in Roman Catholic churches awaiting restructuring from an arrangement in which a priest celebrated Mass at a remote high altar, usually facing away from them, to one in which he is closer to the congregation and generally facing them.

The animal would then be slaughtered by a ritual butcher, the blood carefully collected by the priest in an earthen vessel and sprayed / thrown on the two outer corners of the altar, while the fat, liver, kidneys, and caul, were burnt on the roof of the altar.

Two bullae in the neo-Babylonian style, one showing a priest standing beside an altar to the gods Marduk and Nabu.

In the dim light they mistook the officiating priest for the Emperor and the confusion allowed Leo to snatch a heavy cross from the altar and defend himself.

That Poseidon and Erechtheus were two names at Athens for the same figure ( see below ) was demonstrated in the cult at the Erechtheum, where there was a single altar, a single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, adding " An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic name has been superimposed on an autochthonous, non-Greek name.

They will thus make all that I have ordered, the Communion Tent, the Ark of the Covenant, the ark cover to go on it, all the utensils for the tent, the table and its utensils, the pure menorah and all its utensils, the incense altar, the sacrificial altar and all its utensils, the washstand and its base, the packing cloths, the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, the vestments that his sons wear to serve, the anointing oil, and the incense for the sanctuary.