10 sentences with 'churches'
Example sentences and phrases with the word churches and other words derived from it.
• « By June 1988 he had spoken to some 44,000 people in clubs, churches and schools. And he had to do it with half of his speaking apparatus: the other half was cut off by cancer. »
• « The churches commanded to rest on Sunday, and not to mention shopping, because the stores were closed stone and mud. »
• « From the beginning of "official" Christianity, Constantine financed the construction of huge churches, including St. Peter's Basilica in what is now the Vatican (at the time an obscure cemetery in Rome). »
• « As money flowed into building Christian churches and away from the temples, Christians sometimes led attacks to desecrate pagan sites of worship. »
• « Outside the monasteries, churches were built in virtually every town and village (and many small towns) in the Roman sphere of influence. »
• « The success of these missionary efforts united much of Eastern Europe and Byzantium in a common religious culture - that of Eastern Orthodoxy. Thus, to this day, the Greek, Russian, Ukrainian and Serbian Orthodox churches share common historical roots and a common set of beliefs and practices. »
• « To return to Orthodox Christianity, it was not just because Constantinople was at the centre of the empire that the Byzantines thought it had a special relationship with God. Its power derived from the large number of churches and relics present in the city, which in turn represented an enormous amount of potency (sacred power). »
• « An icon is an image of a sacred figure, almost always Christ, the Virgin Mary, or one of the saints, which is used as a focus of Christian worship both in churches and in homes. »
• « Because of the sheer geographical distance between Rome and the kingdoms of Europe, the popes did not exercise much practical authority over the various national churches, and the senior ecclesiastics of the European kingdoms tended to be more closely associated with their respective kings than with Rome. »
• « The Medici spent vast sums on the city itself, financing the creation of churches, orphanages, municipal buildings and the completion of the great dome of the city's cathedral, once the largest free-standing dome in Europe. »