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How To Use Reconsecrate In A Sentence

  • James and Preston wanted the land to be taken from the mine, prayed over, filled in, and reconsecrated to the spirits who dwell there.
  • The bells tolled as parishioners carrying candles filed out through the 13th-century doorway of St Ninian's church last night to reconsecrate the ground in which the unfortunate woman's remains once lay.
  • Prior even to his election as pope, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini paid for the restoration of the district church of S. Martino, which was reconsecrated on August 10, 1458.
  • In particular, says the Report, it was thought necessary in the Early Church to exorcise the sites of churches to be consecrated or reconsecrated.
  • He reconsecrated it to the Virgin Mary and resumed using the temple to pray for the dead, only now it was ‘Christianised ‘, as men added the unscriptural teaching of purgatory.
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  • In particular, says the Report, it was thought necessary in the Early Church to exorcise the sites of churches to be consecrated or reconsecrated.
  • The bishop of the diocese is now pondering whether to reconsecrate the site after news of what happened there emerged.
  • It has traditionally been argued that, after the Edict of Constantine in 314, there was a concerted programme to reconsecrate pagan temples as Christian churches.
  • The church, built by Hawksmoor, was completed in 1725, although the interior was destroyed by fire in 1850 and reconsecrated in 1857.
  • The wedding took place in a Champagne cellar as churches were not yet reconsecrated following the French Revolution.
  • At the end of the 19th century it was reconsecrated as the Spitalfields Great Synagogue for the East End's newly arrived Jews.
  • In 1825, Charles X, last surviving brother of Louis XVI, even underwent an elaborate coronation, in the traditional setting of Reims Cathedral, to reconsecrate the bond between his dynasty and God.

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