He pressed his palms together and addressed himself to the patron saint of divers in a hurried and anxious whisper.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

Theodosius I founded the Church of John the Baptist to house the skull of the saint ( today preserved at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the Forum of Taurus, and turned the ruined temple of Aphrodite into a coach house for the Praetorian Prefect ; Arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the Mese, near the walls of Constantine.

prelest, Gr. plani )— the antonym of sobriety — in which a person believes himself or herself to be a saint, has hallucinations in which he or she ' sees ' angels, Christ, etc.

Within this area the Bishop of Durham had almost as much power as the king of England himself, and the saint became a powerful symbol of the autonomy the region enjoyed.

Reasons for his interment in Canterbury are debatable, but it is highly likely that Henry deliberately associated himself with the martyr saint for reasons of political expediency, namely, the legitimation of his dynasty after seizing the throne from Richard II.

Professions sometimes get a patron saint who was himself or herself involved in that profession.

* Gang Bing: patron saint of eunuchs in China who castrated himself to demonstrate his loyalty to emperor Yongle

Boniface had been under Charles Martel's protection from 723 on ; indeed the saint himself explained to his old friend, Daniel of Winchester, that without it he could neither administer his church, defend his clergy, nor prevent idolatry.

Bishop Colmán argued the Ionan calculation of Easter on the following grounds that it was the practice of Columba, founder of their monastic network and a saint of unquestionable holiness, who himself had followed the tradition of St. John the apostle and evangelist.

I had Godric narrate his own life, and despite the problem of developing a language that sounded authentic on his lips without becoming impenetrably archaic, and despite the difficulties of trying to recapture a time and place so unlike my own, the book, like Lion Country before it, came so quickly and with such comparative ease that there were times when I suspected that maybe the old saint himself was not entirely uninvolved in the process, as, were I a saint and were somebody writing a book about me, I would not be entirely uninvolved in the process either.

He then put himself to the task of writing livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs ( as he himself called it ), today known as the Life of Saint Louis.

However, he found himself unable to credit the accounts of Neot or any other saint, ultimately considering them mythical rather than historical, a discovery which further shook his religious faith.

* Shah Gardez, an 11th-century Syed saint from Gardez, established himself in Multan, Pakistan.

As St Anthony is the matchmaker saint, it is still the tradition in Lisbon to celebrate multiple marriages ( 200 to 300 ) and still following the tradition, if you are attracted to someone, one can declare himself in the heat of the festivities by offering to the loved person a manjerico ( a flower-pot with a sweet basil plant ) and a love poem.

In 1163, Christ Church was converted to a priory of the Regular Order of Arrosian Canons ( Reformed Augustinian Rule ) by the second Archbishop of Dublin, later saint, Laurence O ' Toole, who adhered to the rule himself ; it was subsequently headed by an Augustinian prior, who ranked as the second ecclesiastical figure of the diocese, and not a dean, until re-establishment in 1541.

* Simon Peter, 1st century AD ; first of the Apostles, saint, martyr, first bishop of Antioch and Rome, calls himself " Simeon " in 2 Peter 1: 1

The centre of his cult ( and possibly of his activity ) was Culross, which according to tradition, was founded by the saint himself.

However, the Ivan of these songs has almost no resemblance to the Christian saint: he is described as a young and handsome man, courting with young girls, and in one particular song he even explicitly refuses to baptise a young child presented before him, explaining he cannot do so because he himself is not a Christian.

King Aethelstan ( 924 – 39 ) presenting a copy of Bede | Bede's Life of St Cuthbert to the saint himself.

Francis of Paola wanted to distinguish himself as being of even less significance than the Friars Minor founded by his patron saint.

This was a problem the Christian church never really solved ; at best, it could offer a Christian saint or martyr to replace the pagan deity of a certain cult, but the cult itself thrived, as did the mythological view of the world through which natural phenomena were explained.

The patron saint of the city could be explained by the sale of the seigneury to François-Pierre Bruneau, whose name was slightly transformed.

Its name is explained by the fact that Vsevolod's patron saint was Saint Demetrius.

The priest had him pray to the life-size Saint Joseph statue at the church where the Father explained to the saint that the boy was only young and did not know better.

Valakhilya explained his difficult situation to the divine saint and requested him to suggest pragmatic solutions to deal with the obstacles on his way.

Jerome's version of the Life of St Anthony the Great, the hermit monk of Egypt, written by Athanasius of Alexandria, was widely disseminated in the Middle Ages ; it relates Anthony's encounter with a centaur, who challenged the saint but was forced to admit that the old gods had been overthrown.

* 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

Some 20th-century historians have questioned these medieval accounts, claiming that references to St. Valentine are very scanty in old historical records and many of the accounts of the life of the saint appear to have originated with Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Basilica di San Nicola ( Saint Nicholas ) was founded in 1087 to receive the relics of this saint, which were brought from Myra in Lycia, and now lie beneath the altar in the crypt, where are buried the Topins, which are a legacy of old thieves converted to good faith.

The Russian Church, in the Carrassi district of Bari, was built in the early 20th century to welcome Russian pilgrims who came to the city to visit the church of Saint Nicholas in the old city where the relics of the saint remain.

In fact, long before becoming the new capital of Kazakhstan, the city was " an astana ," a burial ground of a saint, hence the old name of the city, Ak Mola ( Ақмола ), " white mausoleum.

Chandragupt gave up his throne in 298 BCE, when he was 42 years old, and became an ascetic under the Jain saint Acharya Bhadrabahu, migrating south with them and ending his days in " sallekhana " at Śravaṇa Beḷgoḷa in present day Karnataka, though fifth-century inscriptions in the area support the concept of a larger southern migration around that time.

In the heart of the old town there is a grave called The Sheikh Ibrahim which is one of the 66 graves in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, who was considered a saint by the locals.

At the end of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock ( 1938 ), the unnamed Frenchman the old priest tells Rose about, who never took the sacraments but who some think was a saint, is obviously Péguy.

It is, for instance, quite clear that a popular saint in many Slavic countries, St Elijah the Thunderer, is a replacement of old thunder-god Perun.

Another saint Bridget of Sweden ( 1303 – 1373 ) was given a Swedish variant of the old Irish name named in honour of Brigit.

Hobbs also did the chapel in honour of Saint Thomas Becket illustrating the saint standing in front of the old Canterbury Cathedral on the chapel ’ s east wall and the murder of Thomas on the west wall.

The new saint would be adopted in lieu of the old, whose day would still be marked by a lighting of a candle, with much less fanfare.

Church and state have combined into one secretive institution, whose mythology, based on misinterpreted stories of the war and an old Catholic saint ( Eustace ), is enacted in puppet shows.

Today they are showing in the local church an old baptismal basin made of stone and are asserting that it was used during for the baptizing of the future saint.

One legend has it that Haridas was passing through the forests when the five-year old Ramtanu's imitation of a tiger impressed the musician saint.

: Now this saint was the founder of one of the two Orders which were started by Innocent III against the Humiliated and the Poor Men of Lyons: and as a part of the project, he contrived, we see, to mark himself in such a manner, as to bear a sort of practical testimony against the old triclavian heresy of those whom he was appointed specially to oppose.

Dnyaneshwari is considered to be more than a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita because it was professed by Dnyaneshwar, who is considered to be a saint. It contains more easy and lucid examples about the teaching in Bhagavad-Gita as it is said that saint dnyaneshwar composed it for the development in the behaviour of people. It is quite difficult for today's life to understand the concepts clearly as the written text is very old and is written in about 1500 A. D.

After the old church fell into decay, Louis XV ordered a new church worthy of the patron saint of Paris ; he entrusted the Marquis of Marigny with the construction.