The present church was built in the 1700s and the graveyard contains memorials to the victims of two of Achill's greatest tragedies, the Kirchintilloch Fire ( 1937 ) and the Clew Bay Drowning ( 1894 ).

This was later demolished in 1926-27 to allow the construction of the current church, though this still contains the steeple from the 17th century reconstruction.

I know nothing of your church ; at the very least it contains people who will, I fear, overturn the whole system and drive the princes into using force to restrain good men and bad alike.

The church was built in 1708 in Baroque style and contains some curious paintings by local artists.

( This section contains Matthew 16: 13 – 19, in which Simon, newly renamed Peter, ( πέτρος, petros, meaning " stone "), calls Jesus " the Christ, the son of the living God ", and Jesus states that on this " bedrock " ( πέτρα, petra ) he will build his church — the passage forms the foundation for the papacy's claim of authority ).

Since Rome is the preeminent episcopal see of the Church, it contains the central government of the church, including various agencies essential to administration.

The church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome contains a Baroque sculpture of Habakkuk by the 17th-century artist Bernini.

Every altar in every Orthodox church contains relics, usually of martyrs.

St Mary's Church contains a memorial to the men of who lost their lives in HMS Monmouth, which was sunk with all hands on 1 November 1914, by German cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau off the Chilean Coast at the Battle of Coronel ; the church hosts an annual service in remembrance.

* The old parish church of St. Ulrich is a good example of the Transition style of the 13th century, and contains a valuable antiquarian collection.

The Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck () contains the wooden statue of St. Paul the Apostle carved in 1657 by Melchiorre Gafà, brother of Lorenzo Gafà who renovated the church in 1680.

The church contains two first-class relics, the right wrist-bone of St. Paul and part of the column on which he was beheaded in Rome.

Widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the most well-known churches ever built, Notre Dame is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris ; that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra ( official chair ) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois.

The abbey church contains some fine examples of cadaver tombs.

The town contains a fine parish church and a considerable number of listed buildings.

The church of Santa Maria contains outstanding works of art, and there are murals dating from the Romanesque period to the Gothic.

Fourteen of England's cathedrals are of smaller dimensions, while only Westminster Abbey contains more medieval church monuments.

The church contains a notable 15th-century painted pulpit donated by Edward IV.

The church contains a baptistry heated by hypocausts.

It also contains a Prairie Village with local landmark homes and other buildings, including a Pony Express station and pioneer church among many others.

It possesses a Kurhaus, fifteen bathing-establishments, a parish church in late Gothic style, and a town-hall, which contains archives.

* Lazarevskoye, 59 km from the city center, contains a delphinarium, an old church ( 1903 ), and a new church ( 1999 ).

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

It reported that he now devoted only some 6-1/2 hours per month to public preaching and from 20 to 25 hours per month to church activities.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

The new members justifiably expect some things from their church family:

In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.

Although he had some trouble with the peasantry, the lands and treasures of the church enabled him to propitiate the nobles and for a time to provide for the expenses of the court.

Paul spends the next few years traveling through western Asia Minor and ( some believe ) founds his first Christian church in Philippi.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

The former main altar of the hermitage church in Warfhuizen in the Netherlands with a mural of Anthony the Abbot and a reliquary with some of his relic s. Since then they have been moved to a new golden shrine on a side-altar especially made for them.

Many states still prohibit selling alcohol for on and off-premise sales in one form or another on Sundays at some restricted time, under the rationale that people should be in church on Sunday morning, or at least not drinking.

He took his old nurse with him as a servant and they settled down to live in Enfide, near a church to St Peter, in some kind of association with " a company of virtuous men " who were in sympathy with his feelings and his views of life.

While traditional teaching maintains that any bishop with apostolic succession can validly perform the ordination of another bishop, some churches require two or three bishops participate, either to ensure sacramental validity or to conform with church law.

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

The small church ( dedicated to the Holy Trinity ) that lies to the east of the village closed some years ago.

On Elizabeth's death in 1603, the 1559 book, substantially that of 1552 which had been regarded as offensive by the likes of Bishop Stephen Gardiner as being a break with the tradition of the Western church, had come to be regarded in some quarters as unduly Catholic.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

Some Anglicans consider their church a branch of the " One Holy Catholic Church " alongside of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, a concept rejected by the Roman Catholic Church and some Eastern Orthodox.

In the 1870s, the church influence started to diminish slightly with the passing of several laws that took some old roles of the church into the State's hands such as the registry of births and marriages.

Adherents would include the Reformed church, most of the Presbyterian church, some low church Anglicans, some Baptist churches, some Wesleyan / Methodist churches and certain Lutheran churches.