Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.

it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

He was stern and overbearing with his flock, but obsequious and conciliatory with the whites, especially the rich who partly supported the church.

The characteristic thing about this church was its Amen corner and the weekly religious orgy.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.

On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.

The deacon of the church, Carlson, was its janitor.

But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

There was the slate roof of the church ; ;

There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.

Both church and graveyard were smaller than she remembered them ( how many things had lessened while she was gone away ) but the headstones had grown so thick in thirty years that to find one named `` Dorothy Tredding '' seemed suddenly impossible.

Kildamhnait on the south east coast of Achill is named after St. Damhnait, or Dymphna, who founded a church there in the 16th century.

Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

Custer was accidentally possessed by the supernatural creature named Genesis in an incident which killed his entire congregation and flattened his church.

The sin of simony, or paying for position and influence in the church, is named for Simon.

or ) is the act of paying for sacraments and consequently for holy offices or for positions in the hierarchy of a church, named after Simon Magus, who appears in the Acts of the Apostles 8: 9-24.

Bede says that Ninian was a Briton who had been instructed in Rome ; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons ; that his episcopal see was named after Saint Martin of Tours ; that he preached to and converted the southern Picts ; that his base was at " hwit ærn ", which was in the province of the Bernicians ; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.

Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".

San Estevan del Rey Mission Church is a church that was founded in 1629 in Acoma, New Mexico and named for the king.

Its history goes back to the Roman harbour ( named " Portus Luguidonis "-presumably located in the little bay in front of the ancient church of St. John ), from where the Romans entered inner Sardinia.

Although Tamar was canonized by the Georgian church much later, she was even named as a saint in her lifetime in a bilingual Greco-Georgian colophon attached to the manuscript of the Vani Gospels.

The Carnival season in Greece is also known as the Apokriés ( Greek: Αποκριές, " saying goodbye to meat "), or the season of the " Opening of the Triodion ", so named after the liturgical book used by the church from then until the Holy Week.

The body was eventually buried in a church in the City of Westminster, which was fittingly named St. Clement Danes.

However, more recent research — which takes into account church and school records in addition to the will of a relative — has suggested that he was originally named Leon Bismark.

* Church of Saint Agrippina, a Catholic church founded in Mineo and named after Saint Agrippina of Mineo, who is the patron Saint of the town

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

These keys are those to the gates of heaven held by St. Peter, for whom a large church in the city center is named.

" Many of the anarchists were ardent freethinkers ; reprints from freethought papers such as Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, Freethought and The Truth Seeker appeared in Liberty ... The church was viewed as a common ally of the state and as a repressive force in and of itself ".

Among these houses, Bevacqua remember the Villa Villa and Cumbo, S. Marina, and the ancient church of ' Spadafora, S. Peter. Among the most famous are those of the Fatherland Fallen Milazzo ( located in Piazza Roma and erected in 1924 ), the source of the mythical and ancient Apple ( opposite the Church of the Carmine ), the ' Statue of Liberty, built in honor of Garibaldi, the Statue of Luigi Rizzo, the monument Milazzo Bridge, erected to commemorate the famous battle of 20 July 1860 ; the large floor mosaic depicting the coat of arms, located in the Atrium of the Carmine.

This ' Ward ' was constituted of the original ' Guildable Manor ' and the properties previously held by the church, under a charter of Edward VI, latterly called the ' King's Manor ' and ' Great Liberty ' manor.

Leaders of this church, most notably President Joseph Smith, Jr., were imprisoned for some months in Clay County in the jail at Liberty ( see Liberty Jail ).

The most popular — though probably mythical — story regarding the reason the area was named Liberty was put forth by Mrs. Annie Craig in 1936: “ At the close of the Revolutionary war a religious meeting was being held at a church close to a spring near the present town of Liberty when the word came that Cornwallis had surrendered and the colonies had gained their independence.

The Liberty Presbyterian Church was built in 1883 at its present site ; formerly the church ’ s members had worshipped at Mt.

The lands of the church were transferred to St. Peter's Church at York as the Liberty of Ripon and it was during this time that Ripon Cathedral was built on top of the ruins of Wilfrid's building.

In 1971, the church founded Lynchburg Baptist College, now known as Liberty University, as well as Liberty Christian Academy ( known as Lynchburg Christian Academy until it moved and was renamed in 2005 ).

" " Many of the anarchists were ardent freethinkers ; reprints from freethought papers such as Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, Freethought and The Truth Seeker appeared in Liberty ... The church was viewed as a common ally of the state and as a repressive force in and of itself.

The Alliance has also worked to uphold the separation of church and state through its membership and support of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

In October 1939, delegates from Duck River, Mount Zion, Union, Mount Pleasant, Liberty, New Liberty and Ebenezer Associations, and the Pleasant Hill church of Kentucky, met at Garrison Fork Church, Bedford County, Tennessee, and organized the The General Association of The Baptists.

In 1994, the Liberty Baptist Fellowship had 100 churches, including the 21, 000 member Thomas Road church, which was also affiliated with the Baptist Bible Fellowship International.

With its leading church and pastor affiliated with Southern Baptists through the Virginia Convention, the future of Liberty Baptist Fellowship is unclear.

In 1842, Garnet became pastor of the Liberty Street Presbyterian church, a position he would hold for six years.

Although these days it is a purely ceremonial affair, every year at the parish church, on the first Monday after Saint Andrew's Day ( the first in December ), known as " Choosing Day ", the Freemen of Brightlingsea gather to elect the " Deputy of Brightlingsea " who is the representative of the Mayor of Sandwich in the Liberty.

When Bernard left Boston on 1 August, the town held an impromptu celebration, decorated the Liberty Tree, and rang church bells.

Wine was also the founder of several humanist organizations that are not specifically Jewish, such as the Humanist Institute and the International Association of Humanist Educators, Counselors, and Leaders, as well as the cofounder of Americans for Religious Liberty, which promotes separation of church and state.

In 1982, The Voice of Reason merged with the Center for Moral Democracy, which had been started by Ethical Culture leader Edward L. Ericson and others, to form a new organization, Americans for Religious Liberty, which continues as an advocacy group for the separation of church and state.

" Smith and other church leaders were imprisoned in Liberty, Missouri and the majority of the Latter Day Saints were deprived of their property and expelled from the state.