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- Dictionarysaintly/ˈseɪntli/
adjective
- 1. very holy or virtuous: "a truly saintly woman"
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4 days ago · The term saint was originally a self-designation of all Christians. “The saints,” according to the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians (1:31), are “sanctified through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.”
5 days ago · saint, holy person, believed to have a special relationship to the sacred as well as moral perfection or exceptional teaching abilities. The phenomenon is widespread in the religions of the world, both ancient and contemporary.
4 days ago · Pilgrimage to the shrines of the saints, for example, touches economic and political life, military history, visual and musical arts, popular devotion, and the exchange of scientific information.
2 days ago · An 18th-century pope gave his definition of incorruptibility in a treatise on the process of beatification and canonization of saints. Prospero Lambertini, the future Pope Benedict XIV, wrote the lengthy work while serving in the Holy See’s congregation for the promotion of saints’ causes from 1708 to 1728.
4 days ago · It’s a delicate and sensitive type of enjoyment, lovely and righteous. It’s a different but similar word to the other Hebrew words interpreted as delight, including hapes (meaning desire, pleasure, to prefer) or rasa (meaning to be favorable to).
1 day ago · The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist.
4 days ago · Mothers worn thin by eight or ten children can thank Aquinas’s horror of contraception. He thought women easily corrupted: “When a soul is vehemently moved to wickedness, as occurs mostly in little old women…”. He had paved the way for witch-burning. Plus he spent an awfully long time figuring out how male and female demons had sex.
