How To Use pretorium In A Sentence
- He was of noble descent, his father and grandfather being Christians and prefects of the pretorium of the Gauls. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- The Brevarius of Jerusalem (c. 436) mentions in the pretorium "a great basilica called St. Sophia, with a chapel, cubiculum, where our Lord was stripped of his garments and scourged". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- On the rock of Baris, the natural site of the royal palace, was the tribunal, "the inner court", called "the court of the pretorium" in the Syrian Version (Mark, xv, 16). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Caiphas and the pretorium of Pilate had remained "unto that day a heap of ruins by the might of Him who hung upon the Cross" (Catech., xiii, xxxviii, xxxix). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- That Pilate resided in one of these two castles when Jesus was brought before him can scarcely be doubted; and the early tradition which locates the pretorium in the fortress of Antonia is well supported by history and archæology. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- St. Ambrose was born about the year 340, of a Roman of the same name who was at that time prefect of the pretorium in Gaul, a province which then embraced a large portion of western and southwestern Europe. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
- In the midst of the camp the pretorium, or general's quarters, rose above the others; the cavalry, the infantry, and the auxiliaries occupied their respective stations; the streets were broad and straight, and a vacant of 200 feet was left on all sides between the tents and the ramparts. Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
- The local tradition remained constant, showing at all times up to the present day the pretorium of Pilate to have been in the Antonia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- And when the emperor saw that in no manner he could resist her wisdom, he sent secretly by letters for all the great grammarians and rhetoricians that they should come hastily to his pretorium to Alexandria, and he should give to them great gifts if they might surmount a maiden well bespoken. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
- Nor did he return to the pretorium, until his dining-room was in flames from the chimney's taking fire. De vita Caesarum
