Tradition holds that the text was written by Luke the companion of Paul ( named in Colossians ) and this traditional view of Lukan authorship is “ widely held as the view which most satisfactorily explains all the data .” The list of scholars maintaining authorship by Luke the physician is lengthy, and represents scholars from a wide range of theological opinion.

Tradition holds that, in that era, the year began on the first new moon after the winter solstice.

Tradition holds that the text was written by Luke the companion of Paul ( named in Colossians ).

Tradition holds that Habakkuk was buried here, but the site may actually be the tomb of a local sheikh of Yaquq, whose name was misunderstood to sound like " Habakkuk ".

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

Tradition holds that he made enough money to go into the nautical business, but that the venture collapsed.

Tradition holds that his final words were " treason, treason, treason!

Tradition holds that Ninian was a Briton who had studied in Rome, that he established an episcopal see at the Candida Casa in Whithorn, that he named the see for Saint Martin of Tours, that he converted the southern Picts to Christianity, and that he is buried at Whithorn.

Tradition generally holds that if the betrothal fails because the man himself breaks off the engagement, the woman is not obliged to return the ring.

Tradition holds that Charlemagne granted a charter to the Andorran people in return for their fighting the Moors.

Tradition holds that she was born on the Feast of the Epiphany, but there is no documentary evidence ( d. 1431 )

Orthodox distinctives ( shared with some of the Eastern Catholic Churches ) include the Divine Liturgy, Mysteries or Sacraments, and an emphasis on the preservation of Tradition, which it holds to be Apostolic in nature.

Tradition holds that this was given to St. Simon Stock by the Blessed Virgin Mary, who appeared to him and promised that all who wore it with faith and piety and who died clothed in it would be saved.

Tradition holds that the seven hills were first occupied by small settlements and not grouped or recognized as a city called Rome.

Tradition holds that following the Roman departure, Roman customs held on into the 5th century in southern Wales, and that is true in part.

Tradition holds that she served as a Maid of Honour to Margaret of Anjou, but the evidence of this is uncertain.

Tradition holds that during his papacy he determined the various prerogatives of the clergy and defined the grades of the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Tradition holds that a congressman was particularly disgusted by the appearance of a midshipman returned from cruise.

Tradition also holds that he died at nearby Llanrhos, and was buried there.

Tradition holds that he died of the ' Yellow Plague ' of Rhos, but this is based on one of the Triads that was written much later.

Tradition holds that the Quakers purchased several tracts on Apple-pie Ridge from the natives, who did not disturb those settlements.

Tradition holds that Jean Joseph LeKintrek and Joseph Blainpain, who had formed a partnership to trade with the Opelousas Indians, came in the early 1740s.

Tradition holds that it was at the Middlebrook encampment that the first official flag of the United States was unfurled, after a law to adopt a national flag had been passed by Congress on June 14, 1777.

Tradition holds that three of the tribe's villages were located in the town.

Tradition holds — and archeological evidence bears it out — that the crest of the ridge, which runs from the southwest some 50 miles to present-day Reidsville in the northeast, was well used by Native Americans.

The Cemetery H culture is part of the Punjab Phase, one of three cultural phases that developed in the Localization Era of the Indus Valley Tradition.

According to Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has " leveled off " as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans.

Tradition changes slowly, with changes from one generation to the next not being seen as significant.

Tradition is one of the key concepts in anthropology ; it can be said that anthropology is the study of " tradition in traditional societies ".

Tradition in music suggests a historical context with which one can perceive distinguishable patterns.

A Singleness of purpose emerged as Tradition Five: " Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

Tradition maintains that Braunschweig was created through the merger of two settlements, one founded by Brun, a Saxon count who died in 880, on one side of the river Oker – the legend gives the year 861 for the foundation – and the other the settlement of a legendary Count Dankward, after whom Dankwarderode Castle ( Dankward's clearing ), which was reconstructed in the 19th century, is named.

In Space Cadet, Ezra Dahlquist is one of " hose who helped create the Tradition of the Patrol ".

Tradition speaks of 28 British bishops, one for each of the greater British cities, over whom presided the Archbishops of London, York and Caerleon-on-Usk.

Tradition states that Palden Lhamo, the female guardian spirit of the sacred lake, Lhamo La-tso, promised the First Dalai Lama in one of his visions "... that she would protect the reincarnation lineage of the Dalai Lamas.

Tradition says one Corydon miller overpaid by $ 200 ; Morgan promptly returned it to him.

Tradition has it that no one, not even the town's founders, liked the name " Smock Ville ," and so a public meeting was held to rename the town.

Tradition varies on his relationship to Arthur, but he is best known today as Arthur's illegitimate son by one of his half-sisters, Morgan le Fay or Morgause.

::" Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation ; he is present to us in his body which is the Church.

Nevertheless, our separated brethren, whether considered as individuals or as communities and Churches, are not blessed with that unity which Jesus Christ wished to bestow on all those to whom He has given new birth into one body, and whom He has quickened to newness of life-that unity which the Holy Scriptures and the ancient Tradition of the Church proclaim.

Tradition stands that on at least one of the operational days it will rain.

" Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry the message to the addict who still suffers " ( Narcotics Anonymous ' Fifth Tradition ).

The term most often refers to the infallible teaching of a truth believed bona fina de fide credenda, meaning one defined as explicitly revealed in the deposit of faith and demanding supernatural faith in itself on the authority of the Word of God: Public Revelation in Scripture and Tradition.

Tradition teaches that on Rosh Hashanah, each person is written down for a good or a poor year, based on their actions in the previous one, and their sincere efforts at atoning for mistakes or harm.

Tradition adds to this that he was one of the first martyred in the persecution ( he was clubbed to death ), and for this he is considered a saint.

In Revolt Against the Modern World, he expounds according to the ancient texts that there is not one Tradition, but two: An older and degenerate tradition that is feminine, matriarchal, unheroic, associated with the telluric negroid racial remnants of Lemuria ( continent ); and a higher one that is masculine, heroic, " Uranian " and purely Aryo-Hyperborean in its origin.

MacRitchie himself argued in his Testimony of Tradition, under a chapter subheading entitled " A Hairy Race " ( p. 167 ) that they were somewhat connected to the Lapps or Eskimos, but were a distinct race because of their very long beards, concluding: " one seems to see the type of a race that was even more like the Ainu than the Lapp, or the Eskimo, although closely connected in various ways with all of these " ( p. 173 ).