11 sentences with 'saints'
Example sentences and phrases with the word saints and other words derived from it.
• « The tradition of saints' days, feasts celebrated in veneration of specific saints, often overlapped with various non-Christian celebrations. »
• « Relics were everything from the bones of saints to fragments of the "True Cross" on which Christ was crucified. »
• « 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. »
• « The problem was that it was a slippery slope between venerating God, Christ and the saints "through" icons as symbols, and worshipping the icons themselves as idols, something expressly forbidden in the Old Testament. »
• « By contrast, the saints were enormously important to medieval Christians because they were saints and yet they were still human. »
• « In contrast to the omnipotent and remote figure of God, medieval Christians saw the saints as beings who cared for individuals and communities and who potentially interceded on behalf of their supplicants. Thus, every town, every city and every kingdom had a patron saint who was believed to advocate on its behalf. »
• « Along with the patron saints, the figures of Jesus and Mary became much more important during this period. »
• « Most medieval Christians were content to accept the sacraments and offer prayers to the saints without concern for theological details, but increasingly, educated priests themselves wanted to understand the nuances of their own religion. »
• « A Spanish knight, Loyola was wounded in battle. During his recovery, Loyola read books on the life of Christ and the saints, which inspired him to renounce his possessions and make a pilgrimage through Spain and Italy. »
• « Lives of saints, prayer books and anti-Protestant propaganda were printed and distributed throughout Europe. »
• « A synagogue or a church attended only by saints would be like a hospital admitting only healthy people. It would be much easier to administer, and it would be a much nicer place, but I don't think such a temple would fulfil the function for which it was erected. »