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The sanctity of death

Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 2001
IN SOME AFRICAN VILLAGES the ancestors, known as the living dead, seem almost near enough to be touched—close enough at least to awaken feelings of respect, fear, comfort, wonder, and sometimes awe. Death is a disturbing event even as it seems the inauguration of a new way of continuing life with those no longer physically present.
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Female sanctity, 1500–1660

2007
Introduction During the Renaissance and early modern period, female religious life emerged with extreme vivacity. Scholars agree that both the socio-economic and juridical condition of women’s lives deteriorated during the Renaissance. They also agree that religion, on the other hand, provided a means for different forms of female affirmation to ...
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Sanctity and Servitude

Blackfriars, 1923
Even in the ages of faith, servitude was never a congenial atmosphere for the growth of sanctity. Chattel slavery and serfdom bred an impoverished character, and rare is it to find in the calendar the name of a saint in the middle ages born or brought up in bondage to a master,—save in the case where freedom had been achieved or granted in early life ...
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8. Globalizing sanctity

2018
The cult of saints crossed global horizons as part of the spread of Roman Catholicism that began in the late 15th century with the maritime expeditions of Catholic Portugal and Spain. ‘Globalizing sanctity’ explains that the most successful seedbed of sainthood was the Americas, where the Church received most patronage when it operated as a colonial ...
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Sanctity and Identity:

The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, 2012
ABSTRACT With her Liber Revelationum Elisabeth de Sacro Exercitu Virginum Coloniensium (Book of Revelations), Elisabeth von Schönau establishes the authenticity of the relics of St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, which had been discovered some fifty years prior to the text's composition.
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Sanctity of capital

1990
In origin, the profit or loss of any organization was found by comparing the net assets of the owner at the time of commencement of trade with the net assets at the time of ceasing of trade. This is still the legal way of ascertaining ‘profit’, and is used by accountants to ascertain profit or loss where financial records have been accidentally ...
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Sanctity and Community

2018
This chapter looks at important aspects of Jonas of Bobbio’s hagiography in relation to the broader political and social changes of the seventh century. The chapter deals with the writing and the use of hagiography in the political sphere and with the increasing prominence of the Frankish aristocracy in hagiographic texts from this period.
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Sanctity

2021
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The sanctity of life as a sacred value

Bioethics, 2023
Steve Clarke
exaly  

Sanctity

Life of the Spirit, 1951
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