Saintly blood and the translation of relics, then, became the primary elements of ecclesiastical and civic identity, occupying significant parts of the saints' offices.
A
saintly person sins through those actions he or she knows can be done better.
He talked incessantly of loving his fellow man and posed as an almost
saintly civic figure in public.
No matter how
saintly one king may be, the next may again turn despotic.
It is my hope that John Henry Cardinal Newman is in heaven--not only because he was a wise and
saintly man but also because he would then be spared the indignity of spinning in his grave every time his important work on the development of doctrine is abused.
I REALLY wish that those with the views of G Rea would remove the rose-tinted spectacles that continually project a
saintly halo around Tony Blair's head.
Can it be that these two thunderous rejections of a fearsome and faithless document are further evidence that the divine graces released at the death of John Paul are continuing through his
saintly intercession?
After a moment, he mentioned Angelo, the duke's deputy in Measure for Measure who prides himself on his
saintly self-control yet falls so completely for Isabella, who is studying to become a nun, that he tries to force her to submit to him.
If his prose occasionally rises too sharply with indignation, if the persecuted are occasionally too
saintly, it hardly matters.
The tale of a
saintly peasant girl whose family is beaten up by a greedy landlord, The Flower Girl begins, like many other Kim productions, with everyone starving.
Captain Cook appears to have died in a less
saintly manner at the hands of the Hawaiians than previously thought, as a newly discovered watercolour, to be sold at Christie's, London, on 23 September, reveals.