How To Use Sacristan In A Sentence
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She was also church sacristan at the Ursuline Convent for five years.
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And he was dressed like a sacristan in a Catholic seminary, and he held a bible.
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Whereon a sprightly devilkin seized hurriedly upon his soul and was on the point of bearing it away to Hell, when an angel (mindful doubtless of the abbey's piety) arrived, objecting with a nicely argued piece of logic that the sacristan had not been carried off "en male veie," but before any sin had been committed.
The Story of Rouen
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There was a sacristan kindling branches of candles on the high altar; a deacon, he judged unerringly.
THE THORN BIRDS
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A few moments later, he returned with an altar-boy carrying a crucifix, and a sacristan who walked before them ringing a bell to announce that the Lord was coming to the house of the dying woman.
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In addition to the special members of a chapter already mentioned there are usually appointed the following, in order to secure well-ordered services: precentor, sacristan, cancellor, succentor, punctator, hebdomadarian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Moreover, he served the Brothers humbly in his office of sacristan for nearly four years, and so that versicle which is sung for confessors was apt and fitting for him "who was ever pious and prudent, lowly and modest, sober and chaste and peaceful so long as this present life endured in his bodily limbs.
The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes
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But no more than the sacristan is the hemp-dresser gifted solely with the desire of frightening; he loves to make people laugh; he is sarcastic and sentimental at need, when love and marriage are to be sung.
Appendix. I. A Country Wedding
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The sacristan is grateful for the generous response by all Mass goers to the recent collection at the Masses over last weekend.
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While Mother rises virtuously early for sacristan duties at Little Saint Mary's church, we heathens opt for an indolent morning with the papers.
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Others will leave the amount to your discretion, but the priest is normally paid €150 and the sacristan, €50.
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Alice Burke, sacristan, had the church looking splendid and was further enhanced by the floral arrangements prepared by her daughter Veronica Troy, Lismore.
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Many of the churches of Rome were restored by him; and its clergy, its deaconries for the care of the poor, and its lay sacristans all benefited by his liberality.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Let the presider and sacristan know that you are one of the lectors for that mass.
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James IV. endowed the chapel with large revenues, and in 1501 erected it into a collegiate church for dean, subdean, chanter, sacristan, treasurer, chancellor, archpriests, sixteen chaplains, six singing boys and a choir master.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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Barbara Hall, the sacristan, comes in after night shifts at a care home to keep the interior spick-and-span.
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He had added to their nightly meal cups of a heady and intoxicating cordial, of ten times the strength of the most powerful wine, under which several of the fraternity had succumbed, and indeed, although the Sacristan had been strong to resist its influence, they might yet see, from his inflamed countenance and thick speech, that even he, the accuser himself, was in some degree affected by this unhallowed potation.
Quentin Durward
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There was a sacristan kindling branches of candles on the high altar; a deacon, he judged unerringly.
THE THORN BIRDS
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The sacristan was a kind, gentle, little old man, who let me do whatever I wanted.
Essays on Life, Art and Science
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Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret (Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection), sacristan, b. at Mouy, 16 Sept., 1715, professed 19 Aug., 1740, twice sub-prioress in 1764 and 1778.
The Holy Martyrs of Compiegne
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In a given year, in 1824, for example, there were 34,095 priests and archpriests, 15,081 deacons, and 59,740 sacristans in Russia.
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My father worked in the church, so he was the sacristan, which means, he kind of cleaned the place up.
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Some churches require you to use their flowers - remember to ask the church sacristan if this is the case and expect to pay from €200 upwards.
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Joel Katz played the buffo Sacristan with humour, and the required nervous tics so meticulously notated in Puccini's score.
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EVERYBODY has heard of the Cave of St. Cyprian at Salamanca, where in old times judicial astronomy, necromancy, chiromancy, and other dark and damnable arts were secretly taught by an ancient sacristan; or, as some will have it, by the devil himself, in that disguise.
The Alhambra
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a small pigtail clubbed at the back of his head, like one of Goya's sacristans or a tabellion in an old play, Swann passed by an office in which the lackeys, seated like notaries before their massive registers, rose solemnly to their feet and inscribed his name.
Swann's Way
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Coming to the top of the staircase, up which he had been followed by a servant with a pallid countenance and a small pigtail clubbed at the back of his head, like one of Goya’s sacristans or a tabellion in an old play, Swann passed by an office in which the lackeys, seated like notaries before their massive registers, rose solemnly to their feet and inscribed his name.
Swann's Way
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Nor did it seem unlikely that a city which styled itself 'the nurse of Artemis' should also claim the less audacious title of 'sacristan' to this same goddess.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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The Churches did not signify the hierarchy through money; there was no difference in salary between a sacristan and a pastor.
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Mr. Moya alternates chapters of Haydée's diary with the comic misadventures of her son Clemen and his cousin Jimmy, both on the run from the regime, as they attempt to escape the country, shifting disguises—housemaid, priest, sacristan, livestock traders—and getting lost in a labyrinthine mangrove swamp.
Adios, Warlock
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Thanks was extended to the choir, readers, also to the sacristans Paddy McEvoy and Eileen McEvoy and all who helped out in any way.
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The popular lady, who worked as a sacristan in Portlaw for many years, was surrounded by family and friends for a party at her home.
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What followed was seen by only one person, that is, the sacristan's wife, a big, hard-faced woman with a faint mustache and a wart on her chin, who sat by the great column near the door dispensing holy water out of a cracked saucer and whining for pennies.
Through the Wall
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He founded the Mozarabic Chapel in Toledo cathedral, with an endowment for thirteen chaplains, a sacristan and two mazos sirvientes, and with provision for a sung Mass and the Divine Office daily.
The Mozarabic Rite: The Two Missals
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Now do you go and call the sacristan from the bell," the prior said, "and bid him lead you to the chancel, where I shall be.
Wulfric the Weapon Thane
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In a given year, in 1824, for example, there were 34,095 priests and archpriests, 15,081 deacons, and 59,740 sacristans in Russia.
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He rather showed it to her than to the sacristan.
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He paid tribute to the concelebrating priests, the choir for the lovely singing, the sacristans, the Eucharistic Ministers, collectors and all others who do such wonderful work in the parish.
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_Ce brave homme_ (I like the old sacristan's term of _brave homme_, as it is one of the few untranslateable French words) flew to the cathedral at the moment that a horde of brigands had entered it to commence the work of mutilation; and, seconded by nothing but his known character for resolution, and an athletic person, fairly intimidated and turned them out for the time.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
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It appears that the Sacristan of St. Ouen fell most uncanonically in love with a lady who dwelt on the other side of the Robec.
The Story of Rouen
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On top of all of her other duties she is the sacristan of Duiske Abbey, and that is no small job.
