saints

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The next year the Mass, processions, and the images of the saints were abolished; the shrines were opened and the relics buried.

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  1. noun Christianity A person officially recognized, especially by canonization, as being entitled to public veneration and capable of interceding for people on earth.
  2. noun A person who has died and gone to heaven.
  3. noun A member of any of various religious groups, especially a Latter-Day Saint.
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  • And if they accused him, where in the name of all the saints was their evidence? —  Out of the Past - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 23: 1953
  • At the age of six years the practices of the saints were already familiar to her. —  The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
  • Together they felt the moral beauty of the man's conclusion that "it's the side that suffers most that will win out in this war--the saints is the only ones that has got the world under their feet--we've got to do the way they done if the unions is to stand," so completely that it seemed quite natural that he should forfeit his life upon the truth of this statement. —  20 Years At Hull House
  • The 'glory' or nimbus around the head of the saints is a symbolic witness of their CAPACITY to render divine homage Sri Yukteswar went on to read the marvelous story of Lazarus' resurrection. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • The old, familiar names from religious history and the stories of the saints were all about us. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
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