Sentences with phrase «heathen priests»

grow as jealous of their credit as heathen priests are of that of the jewelry and ornaments that blaze upon their idols.

Vocations that were related in any way to the powers of evil — such as making idols, being a heathen priest, a user of magic verses, an enchanter, astrologer, diviner, soothsayer, juggler, mountebank or amulet - maker - had to be abandoned, and any lifestyle that led one into immorality was to be rejected.

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This is what has kept me away from Catholicism, the thought of feeding these heathens while the lesser priests and nuns getting next to nothing.

I've read tales of Spanish Conquistodoros in the 16th century killing Indian babies by taking them by the heels and bashing their brains out against rocks after they were baptized by priests, so that they might enter heaven, to ensure that they wouldn't grow up to become heathen adults.

Have any of you heathens ever considered the vast majority of priests who live their entire lives as virgins and never fornicate?

Martin Scorsese returns to his 23 - years - in - the - making passion project Silence, about Jesuit priests attempting to bring Christianity to the heathens of Japan.

In a hostile new world, these three men - François Gervaise, a handsome painter; Henri Monange, a young runaway; and Pierre de Béhaine, a charismatic priest - discover that although they have come to convert the heathens, it is their own hearts and souls that are changed forever.