Sentences with phrase «assembled prelates»

Newman's sermon to the assembled prelates in the hot summer of 1852 was certainly complimentary: «And so that high company moves on into the holy place [Newman was picturing the procession of dignitaries with Cardinal Wiseman the last to enter the chapel of St Mary's Oscott]; and there, with august rite and awful sacrifice, inaugurates the great act which brings it hither.»