Part of Leofric's reputation for
saintliness was founded upon his and his wife's generosity towards theChurch.
She is a warm-hearted and lovable character, if somewhat stereotypical, and her
saintliness at times can be irritating.
"When I asked him on the day he was going to the monastery 'what is your future my son', he said '
saintliness'.
Not just because of the weather, although that's grim enough, but because so many of my friends have an attack of
saintliness and give up booze for the month.
They show the sacramental nature of membership in the Body of Christ, deification of all through Christ, spirituality in the Body of Christ and the
saintliness of all the baptized.
Tanta is the earthy Jewish counterpart to the ethereal Buddhist
saintliness Iris is supposed to incarnate.
The English were eager to claim Helena as their own because, after she had been converted to Christianity by Constantine in AD 312, she went about building churches and ministering to the poor, and acquired a universal reputation for special
saintliness. In c.325 she visited the Holy Land, where she was believed to have discovered the True Cross and the Three Holy Nails that fastened Christ thereon, and the veneration with which she was regarded increased a thousand-fold.
Negotiating sainthood; distinction, cursileria and
saintliness in Spanish novels.
She sends them out with her equivocal blessing." As fast with the putdown as she is quick to heave bunches of gladioli into the audience, she treads perilously between common sense and effrontery, pretense and insolence--a vicious critter loudly proclaiming her
saintliness. And we're helpless with laughter.
Her acting was of the highest quality, granting her the scope to lose her temper at the unjust accusations she faces in Act III and yet to portray goodness, even
saintliness, in Act IV.
The chronicles of Allen's book title narrate the history (often over three or four centuries) of such communities in their search for a more religious life, the nature of Observant reform, celebrating the ingenuity and courage required to institute it, as well as the
saintliness and leadership projected by individual women.