What is "churches"

Usage examples of "churches".

He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people .

By donating the artwork anonymously to specific churches and then using their political influence, the brotherhood facilitated placement of these four pieces in carefully chosen churches in Rome.

I told you four cardinals have been kidnapped and are going to be murdered at different churches tonight.

When churches honored their most distinguished members with ornate tombs inside the sanctuary, surviving family members often demanded the family be buried together .

He knew, of course, that not all churches would have visible spires, especially smaller, out-of-the-way sanctuaries.

Not to mention, Rome had changed dramatically since the 1600s when churches were by law the tallest buildings allowed.

The path intersected the Margherita Bridge, Via Cola di Riezo, and passed through Piazza del Risorgimento, hitting no churches at all until it dead-ended abruptly at the center of St.

Cleats like these were common in churches and were placed high to prevent tampering.

Somehow he had imagined the churches would be scattered randomly across Rome.

Improbably, the three churches seemed to be separated systematically, in an enormous city-wide triangle.

Renaissance architects lived for only two reasons-to glorify God with big churches, and to glorify dignitaries with lavish tombs.

Baptist zeal, Methodist self-satisfaction, Presbyterian Scots certainty about everything, Anglican social superiority, and a horde of evangelists and back-street messiahs to suit every taste, as well as an undertow of prohibitionists, anti-tobacco crusaders, and warriors against prostitution, who were linked with the churches though not actually a part of them, seemed to dominate the mores of the city.

Coburg Social Parlours Annual Bad Breath Contest, that I first experienced prayer as something other than what went on, ritually, in churches and meant nothing to me whatever.

He always loved that sort of thing and I remember the glee with which he described how, in some churches in the Age of Faith, a beadle with a sword stood near the altar at Communion, ready to stab any dog or cat who might wander in and gobble up a fallen crumb of the Holy Bread.

A few people fell away, and went to less exigent churches, but of these almost all came traipsing back, admitting with humility that religion was more fun at St.