Sentences with phrase «wayside shrines»

I'd never heard of wayside shrines before, so I turned to my brochure.

At strategic intervals along the wooded path through the grotto were posts identified as «wayside shrines.»

«Typical of European and Latin American countries,» it said, «wayside shrines are located along roads and pathways, where travelers stop and offer prayers, turning heart and mind to God.»

Where are you in your journey, and what sort of «wayside shrines» have given you rest along the way?

And yet somehow my «week of silence» brought me to both of these places — curiously juxtaposed wayside shrines.

One soldier wrote in 1915: «it is little short of miraculous how the wayside shrines and statues inserted in the fronts of the houses have escaped injury.

However, I can connect to the Holy Spirit and to the people with whom the Holy Spirit resides at every wayside shrine I encounter along the way.

All at once I realized that, for me, St. Bernard's was a wayside shrine on my long and uncertain journey of faith.

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In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.