As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple area and defiled this holy place '" ().

When the priests emerged from the holy place after placing the Ark there, the Temple was filled with a cloud, " for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord " ( 1 Kings 8: 10-11 ; 2 Chron.

In the Book of Matthew 24: 15, of the New Testament, Jesus gives attestation to Daniel, " When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand )".

In the final aspect of the vision, Israel ’ s restoration, as a holy place, is declared in contrast to the Edomite lineage that shall end.

: Matthew 24: 15-26 ( ESV ) " So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand ), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Accordingly, “ moved by the same purposes ” the fathers “ apportioned equal prerogatives to the most holy see of new Rome ” because “ the city which is honored by the imperial power and senate and enjoying privileges equaling older imperial Rome should also be elevated to her level in ecclesiastical affairs and take second place after her .” The framework for allocating ecclesiastical authority advocated by the council fathers mirrored the allocation of imperial authority in the later period of the Roman Empire.

In 1551 the Council of Trent definitively declared: " Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread 6: 51, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.

Beneath him, he held a council whose powers were essentially unlimited except by agreement of the larger council and in cases of murder, which were tried before a council of 300 drawn from the twelve cantons and meeting at a holy place, twenty miles southwest of Ancyra, written in Greek as Drynemeton ( Gallic * daru-nemeton holy place of oak ).

It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's " wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence " " in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world ; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned ; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully ; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong ; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots ; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains ; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God ; and in very many other biblical types of this kind.

Yahweh dwells with Israel in the holy of holies ; all the priestly ritual is focused on Yahweh and the construction and maintenance of a holy space ; but sin generates impurity, as do everyday events such as childbirth ; impurity pollutes the holy dwelling place ; failure to ritually purify the sacred space could result in God leaving, which would be disastrous.

During this period, Gandhi claimed to be a " highly orthodox Hindu " and in January 1921 during a speech at a temple in Vadtal, he spoke of the relevance of non-cooperation to Hindu Dharma, " At this holy place, I declare, if you want to protect your ' Hindu Dharma ', non-cooperation is first as well as the last lesson you must learn up.

This martyrium, which proves the existence of an old Christian holy place, has been sometimes attributed to Priscillian, although without further proof.

The mountain served as a holy place in prehistoric times.

For this reason Shiraz is a holy city for Bahá ’ ís, and the city, particularly the house of the Báb, was identified as a place of pilgrimage.

Although he took holy orders in the Church of England, he had become a Puritan at Cambridge, forfeiting any chance of a place of preferment in the Anglican church.

The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, who became dean of the cathedral in 1972, fostered projects to enable it to become " a holy place for the whole city " and encouraged a revival in the construction of the Cathedral.

If they were given the opportunity, the Protestants would get an official answer to their grievance by the next Friday ( seeing as this was all taking place on the eve of Ascension Day and they all must observe the holy day ).

The notion that a person who sought sanctuary in a holy place couldn't be harmed without inviting divine retribution was familiar to the ancient Greeks and ancient Egyptians.

Murudeshwara temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva, lies in the holy beach town in the Bhatkal Taluk of Uttara Kannada district in the state of Karnataka, India.

Because their doctrines were esoteric and exoteric, and because it was believed that men in general could not understand the higher paths, the Priscillianists, or at least those of them who were enlightened, were permitted to tell lies for the sake of a holy end.

This holy man lies at his eternal rest in a small but gorgeous sepulchral chapel … and for the modest sum of five francs you may have his shrivelled mortality unveiled and gaze at it with whatever reserves occur to you.

The significance of the place lies in the fact that the holy religious text of the " Hindus ", the " Bhagwad Gita " was complied in this sacred place

The importance of Bagmati also lies in the fact that Hindus are cremated on the banks of this holy river, and Kirants are buried in the hills by its side.

The water is described as so holy that anything that enters the well will become " as white as the membrane called the skin that lies round the inside of the eggshell.

* – lies south of Kyoto and is considered a holy land, it is a site for religious pilgrimage.

The famous island Eyrisoulla Egrocilla lies in this land: it is there that the holy apostle St Thomas is buried ”.

" Christianity's lies are not holy.

St Anne's holy well is marked on the 1860 OS and lies above Bank wood, flowing into the Burnanne.

The holy as well as historical city of Amritsar () lies to its northwest and Jalandhar ( 38 km ) to its southeast.

The people are engaged in a holy war, for their country lies beside the pagan Zanj.

At the heart of the Mouride holy city lies its Great Mosque, purported to be one of the largest in Africa.

In Tibet there is an annual pilgrimage from Phari Dzong to a holy lake, Jomo Lharang, which lies at c. 5100 m elevation, just north of the mountain.

His relics were translated to the church at New Aberdour and his holy well lies nearby.

The temple is therefore the ultimate holy ground of the Goa ' uld, who kept the Jaffa loyal by propagating lies that they were gods.

"... took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, and the ark of God, and the king's treasures, and carried them away into Babylon.

Judeo-Christian literature positioned blindness as a flaw ; only through a cure could God ’ s love be made manifest, when the scales would fall away from the eyes of an afflicted individual upon contact with a holy man or relic.

I went to London with my wife to celebrate Christmas Day ... Sermon ended, as minister was giving us the holy sacrament, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away ...

Although the act of turning away the undead relies primarily on power of faith, a holy symbol is usually required as a focus for the divine power being invoked.

High continues that the norns that live by the holy well Urðarbrunnr each day take water from the well and mud from around it and pour it over Yggdrasil so that the branches of the ash do not rot away or decay.

For the thorns of vanity and the tares of the passions make it to bear but little fruit in certain places and none in others, and with the increase in iniquity, some, opposing the truth of Thy Gospel by heresy, and others by schism, do fall away from Thy dignity, and rejecting Thy grace, the subject themselves to the judgment of Thy most holy word.

In 1947, during discussions at the United Nations about the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, the Vatican supported the internationalization of Jerusalem, in order to keep the holy places away from either Israeli or Arab sovereignty.

: God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass ; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin ; nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.

Now these pentacles, are as it were certain holy signes preserving us from evil chances and events, and helping and assisting us to binde, exterminate, and drive away evil spirits, and alluring the good spirits, and reconciling them unto us.

Even this method is not fool-proof, however ; when an exorcist tried to drive away Heinzelmann, the kobold tore up the priest's holy book, strewed it about the room, attacked the exorcist, and chased him away.

There was a local tradition that earth from the Skirrid was holy and especially fertile, and it was taken away to be scattered on fields elsewhere, on coffins, and in the foundations of churches.

This holiness begins at baptism, when the blood of Christ washes away all sin and a person stands before God truly holy for the first time in his or her life.

The first written document about today ’ s town name is from 1395 A. D. when the Duchess Milica gave away as a present two houses and some belongings from the town of St. Prokopius to St. Panteleimon monastery on holy Mount Athos in modern-day Greece.

But because she would not be able to keep the Lord happy the holy man took away the idol.

Pilgrims take a holy dip in the lake known as Kachpateertham, near the temple, which washes away all their bad karma.

:" But, they say, during the time of persecution certain holy women plunged into the water with the intention of being swept away by the waves and drowned, and thus preserve their threatened chastity.

Polling can be set for inconvenient days such as midweek or on Holy Days ( example: Sabbath or other holy days of a religious group whose teachings determine that voting is a prohibited on such a day ) in order to make voting difficult for those studying or working away from home.

Not too far away, on Dun Ailinne, lived the King of Leinster who had donated the site to the holy woman.

Bathing in the holy waters at this auspicious time is said to wash away your karmic debt.

" The name of the holy Virtues signifies a certain powerful and unshakable virility welling forth into all their Godlike energies ; not being weak and feeble for any reception of the divine Illuminations granted to it ; mounting upwards in fullness of power to an assimilation with God ; never falling away from the Divine Life through its own weakness, but ascending unwaveringly to the superessential Virtue which is the Source of virtue: fashioning itself, as far as it may, in virtue ; perfectly turned towards the Source of virtue, and flowing forth providentially to those below it, abundantly filling them with virtue.

Again it is possible for this to simply be yet another circle of standing stones ( or the same one as mentioned in relation to Elijah and Elisha, as Bethel is on the circuit with Gilgal, and other assumed locations show Gilgal to be far further away than the other two locations ), and significant that it is treated as a holy place by the biblical text, rather than as a heathen one.

5: There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, of the priest of the Levites, of the holy singers, porters, and ministers of the temple, unto Jerusalem, [...] 68: Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said, 69: The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

Remember, O Lord, the God of Spirits and of all Flesh, those whom we have remembered and those whom we have not remembered, men of the true faith, from righteous Abel unto to-day ; do thou thyself give them rest there in the land of the living, in thy kingdom, in the delight of Paradise, in the bosom of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our holy fathers, from whence pain and sorrow and sighing have fled away, where the light of thy countenance visiteth them and always shineth upon them.