The presents that da Gama sent to the Zamorin as gifts from Dom Manuel — four cloaks of scarlet cloth, six hats, four branches of corals, twelve almasares, a box with seven brass vessels, a chest of sugar, two barrels of oil and a cask of honey — were trivial, and failed to impress.

() Also, Wisdom is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit according to Anglican, Catholic, and Lutheran belief.

In both Catholicism and Anglicanism, courage is also one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 119: 164 states: " Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws " which is among the scriptural quotes in the attestation of Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki that commences " The times of prayer and the services are seven in number, like the number of gifts of the Spirit, since the holy prayers are from the Spirit.

In many expressions of Christianity, such as Catholicism and Anglicanism, knowledge is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.

The seven gifts successively given by Gilgamesh were:

" The tradition holds that the seven gods will arrive in town on the New Year and distribute fantastic gifts to worthy people.

Blitzstein's musical gifts were apparent at an early age ; he had performed a Mozart piano concerto by the time he was seven.

Among the wedding gifts are seven maids who will be Philology's servants: they are the seven liberal arts: Grammar ( an old woman with a knife for excising children's grammatical errors ), Dialectic, Rhetoric ( a tall woman with a dress decorated with figures of speech and armed in a fashion to harm adversaries ), Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy and ( musical ) Harmony.

For the confirmand it increases the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit ( wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord ), unites more fully to Christ and the Church, and gives strength to confess Christ and defend the faith.

Going further into these stipulations, it says that there exist “ eight kinds of things which should not be given, one kind of thing which may be given, seven kinds of legitimate gifts, and sixteen kinds of illegitimate gifts .” The is easy to read in this way, because it has a funnel effect.

Significant past gifts to the University include the Seven Society Carillon in the UVA Chapel, donated in memory of deceased members of the society, and given with the request that there should be a toll of seven times seven bells on the passing of a member ; a memorial to past Seven Society members who gave their lives in World War I ; $ 17, 777. 77 for a loan fund in honor of University president John Lloyd Newcomb ; the ceremonial mace carried in academic processions ; $ 10, 777. 77 in support of the re-establishment of Homecomings ; a plaque on the Rotunda honoring University students who died in the Korean War ; $ 7, 077. 77 to endow the Ernest Mead Fund for the Music Library ; $ 47, 777. 77 for the making of a film on the honor system ; and $ 1 million in support of the University's South Lawn Project.

These gifts are related to the traditional seven gifts of the Holy Spirit described in ( wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord, as listed in Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1831 ).

Above her head are seven doves representing the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.

While many Roman Catholics and some other Christians accept these as a definitive list of specific attributes, others understand them merely as examples of the Holy Spirit's work through the faithful, or consider that there is no such thing as seven gifts of the Spirit in the Bible.

The source of the enumeration of " seven " gifts is often given as Isaiah 11: 2-3.

He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.

The first seven councils were called by the Byzantine Emperors and the sixteenth by the future Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.

* Salvador Miranda, " The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ": Martin's seven cardinals

The Archbishop also had great significance as one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire.

In the Roman Catholic Church " Holy Matrimony " is considered to be one of the seven sacraments, in this case one that the spouses bestow upon each other in front of a priest and members of the community as witnesses.

John campaigned in Bohemia and was elected king by deposition of Henry of Carinthia, he thereby became one of the seven prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire and – in succession of Wenceslaus III – claimant to the Polish and Hungarian throne.

In the periods between the Councils the highest administrative powers are exercised by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, which includes seven permanent members and is chaired by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Primate of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Philip the Evangelist, one of the original seven deacons, is directed by the Holy Spirit to catch up to the eunuch's chariot and hears him reading from the Book of Isaiah ( chapter 53 ).

On the Day of Atonement, some of the blood would be sprinkled in front of the veil covering the entrance to the Holy of Holies when the blood would be sprinkled in front of the mercy seat ; this was done seven times.

Today, this wall is one of the seven wonders of the Holy City.

Chaim ibn Attar maintains that this is the symbolism behind the Menorah: “ The seven candles of the Menorah the Holy Temple correspond to the world's nations, which number seventy.

As one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire, the archbishop of Cologne was a key political figure for both the emperor and the reformers.

According to Roman Catholic Church teaching, a sacramental character is an indelible spiritual mark ( the meaning of the word character in Latin ) imprinted by three of the seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders.

It consists of seven prayers, at the end of which every member of the congregation is anointed with Holy Oil.

According to the Liberal Catholic Church's Statement of Principles, " The Liberal Catholic Church recognises seven fundamental sacraments, which it enumerates as follows: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Absolution, Holy Unction, Holy Matrimony, Holy Orders.

A part of Operation Anadyr was Operation Kama, a plan to forward-base seven Soviet ballistic missile submarines in Mariel, Cuba, much like the United States bases ballistic missile submarines in Holy Loch, Scotland.

A poster on Yahoo GeoCities, put the number of traditionalist Catholics ( in good standing with the Holy See or not ) " somewhere around the six or seven million mark ", and a sedevacantist site put them at " 60 to 120 million worldwide ".

In the Oral Torah, the Mishnah comments that the biblical commandment to take the lulav, along with the other four species, is for all seven days of Sukkot only in and around the Temple Mount when the Holy Temple in Jerusalem is extant, as indicated by the verse as " in the presence of Hashem, your God, for seven days.

In the Christian Science textbook, Eddy cites seven synonyms for God: < i > Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, and Mind .< i >< ref > Science & Health, Chapter 6 -- Science, Theology, Medicine, p. 115, < i >" Divine synonyms, GOD: Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind.

In all seven cases the admonition is included, " He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches ", although sometimes this comes before the promise and sometimes after.

Others would say that the falling away relates to the churches, not to the messengers, as each of the seven letters conclude with the words " He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

A seven kilometer road named the " Spirit way " ( Shen dao ) leads into the complex, lined with statues of guardian animals and officials, with a front gate consisting of a three-arches, painted red, and called the " Great Red Gate ".

Wandering Spirit was executed along with seven others.

On her thirty-eight foot yacht, the Spirit of Birmingham, Lisa survived the journey, despite capsizing seven times.

It was nominated for seven Razzie Awards in 1996 including Worst Picture, Worst Director ( Frank Marshall ), Worst Supporting Actor ( Tim Curry ), Worst Supporting Actress (" Amy the Talking Gorilla "), Worst New Star (" Amy the Talking Gorilla "), Worst Screenplay ( John Patrick Shanley ) and Worst Original Song ( Jerry Goldsmith and Lebo M for "( Feel ) the Spirit of Africa ").

There are approximately 37 impérios or religious structures to honour the Holy Spirit on the island, of these seven are located in the civil parish.

In a book review by Henry Lederle, Synan ’ s 2001 book The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal was described as “ a lasting contribution to the recording of Pentecostalism ,” and a book that is “ poised to become the standard work of reference for the historical development of the various Pentecostal and Charismatic awakenings of the twentieth century .” This book, which Lederle calls Synan ’ s “ magnum opus ,” contains 15 chapters, seven of which were written by Synan and the remaining eight chapters by contributing authors.

* November 16 – The northbound high speed tilt train Spirit of Townsville from Brisbane, bound for Cairns, failed to slow down for a sharp 60 km / h curve at Berajondo, Queensland, Australia, derailing the train ; although seven of the train's passenger cars and the leading power car left the tracks, remarkably there were no fatalities.

* Christian Science uses " Spirit " as one of the seven synonyms for God, as in: " Principle ; Mind ; Soul ; Spirit ; Life ; Truth ; Love "

The book contains the following parts: Offices of the Virgin Mary according to the rites of the Roman Church ; seven penitentiary psalms ; Offices of the Holy Cross ; Offices for the dead ; Offices of the Holy Spirit as well as numerous prayers.

These seven principles can be grouped into a threefold division of Monad ( transcendent Spirit, consisting of Atma and Buddhi ), Ego ( the higher immortal spiritual Personality, made up of the Higher Manas only ) and Lower Quaternity ( the mortal personality, the Lower Manas and the remaining principles ).