308 adjectives to describe priests

"I had no bad intentions, but as I've been assured that nearly all the money is in the hands of the native priests, I said to myself: the friars are dying for curacies and the Franciscans are satisfied with the poorest, so when they give them up to the native priests the truth must be that the king's profile is unknown there.

There never was any doubt in the many discussions on this subject, that the work and care of a parish is a sacred office, and that parish priests hold such an office.

"So this is the little priest!" says my lord, who knew for what calling the lad was intended, and adding: "Welcome, kinsman.

This privilege extends to secular priests who are Franciscan tertiaries, if it exists at all.]

Some holy priests maintained that they could recite from memory with greater fervour than from the reading of the pages of the Breviary; but the practice is not one for the many.

Rome made the humiliating confession that she possessed no priest worthy of the papacy, that the clergy in the city were rude and utter simonists.

They have lost faith in Christ's immediate and personal government of the world and its nations; and, therefore, they are tempted more and more, either to try to misgovern the world themselves, or to fancy that Christ has entrusted His government, as to a substitute and vicar, to an aged priest at Rome.

Then King Richard, looking toward the spot whence the sound came, saw a tall, burly, strapping priest standing in front of all the crowd with his legs wide apart as he backed against those behind.

The heathen priests of old never delivered oracles but when they were drunk and mad or distracted, and who knows why our modern oracles may not as well use the same method in all their proceedings?

I take my tithes from fat priests and lordly squires, to help those that they despoil and to raise up those that they bow down; but I know not that thou hast tenants of thine own whom thou hast wronged in any way.

The attendant priest said it implied that fourteen years of his life still remained.

"Come!" said the man who opened ita white-haired priest of benevolent face.

The representatives of the whole nation are now assembled at Mount Carmel, with their idolatrous priests.

"Thou false, lying priest!" said he in so stern a voice that the man of law shrunk affrighted, "I am no false knight, as thou knowest full well, but have even held my place in the press and the tourney.

Perhaps, the example which is best known to missionary priests, is the example of the Cure d'Ars, who in the early days of his priestly life always said his Breviary kneeling in the sanctuary.

A venerable priest of Islam arose.

But, carina, these foreign priests are often of a different way of thinking; and Don Fernanzo Lillo, that fluent Spaniardverily I would have thee don thy most freezing dignity when he comes again.

Then, had he well weighed the mortifications which await the apostate priest!

"Who art thou, mad priest?" said the King in a serious voice, albeit he smiled beneath his cowl.

Then she played picquet or whist with some friendly priests.

The sincerity of their seal they proved by the most convincing test,an act for the extirpation of popish priests and Jesuits, and the disposal of two-thirds of the real and personal [Footnote 1: Journals, Aug. 18, 19, Oct. 20.

The ambitious, vain, unsuspecting priest was delighted to receive so great a man, whose fame filled the world.

A zealous priest in the north of Ireland missed a constant auditor from his congregation, in which schism had already made depredations.

Father J. Walker, the principal priest, superintends the female guilds, and visits the soldiers at the Barracks; Father R. Brindle attends to the male guilds; Father Boardman hangs out an educational banner, and has the management of the various schools; the fourth priest officiates as auxiliary.

SEE Clarke, Isabel C. The eucharistic priest.

308 adjectives to describe  priests