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  • Blessing the Oils: This ceremony takes place in St. Peter's during mass, the cardinal arch-priest, or a bishop in his stead, officiating.

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • The Sleeper Awakes is, I think, much superior, but it suffers from vast contradictions because of the fact that Wells, as the arch-priest of ‘progress’, cannot write with any conviction against ‘progress’.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • I have seen the accursed descendants of that accursed empire worship him and hail him as their arch-priest.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • I have seen the accursed descendants of that accursed empire worship him and hail him as their arch-priest.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • I have seen the accursed descendants of that accursed empire worship him and hail him as their arch-priest.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • I have seen the accursed descendants of that accursed empire worship him and hail him as their arch-priest.

    The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977

  • He is the arch-priest of racialism in South Africa.

    STATEMENT IN THE SPECIAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1957

  • A college or arch-presbytery was founded there in 1341, 'which college,' says Lysons, 'consisted of an arch-priest and five other priests, who lived together in community.'

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • Strabo, for instance, whose great-uncle was arch-priest of Comana, mentions it in connection with that city, (XII, 3, 36, p. 559 C), and he manifests no surprise.

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • On the contrary, he congratulated himself the next day on the happy change that had taken place in her, owing to her religious exercises, because she seemed no longer as she had been, but was quiet, attentive, active, spoke with satisfaction of the approaching departure, the position which Don Rocco hoped to find for her with a certain arch-priest, a friend of his; a promotion for her.

    Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian Various

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