Example sentences for: consecrated

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  • In the same grounds is the magnificent three-story brick basilica of San Vitale, consecrated in 547.

  • The policy of the Roman Catholic Church is that except in extreme circumstances, only Catholics (and sometimes Eastern Orthodox Christians) are invited to consume the consecrated bread and wine at a Catholic Mass.

  • Classical sacred dance, Bharatanatyam, has a total of 108 different consecrated forms — you can see them performed by Shiva in the sculpted frieze of Thanjavur’s Brihadisvara Temple (see page 191).

  • Not only was the Mass in English, celebrated by a priest facing the congregation, but at Communion time, the sacrament was distributed in both "species" (wine as well as bread) by ministers of both sexes--though some older parishioners, after receiving the consecrated wafer from priestly hands, avoided the female eucharistic minister (a laywoman) offering the chalice.

  • This square is dominated by Bhaktapur’s most famous monument, the Nyatapola Temple, which was consecrated in 1702 and is both the valley’s tallest temple and one of only three five-tiered pagodas in the valley.


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