sancta

It is only to such an assembly that it is lawful to apply the term sancta synodus (see GENERAL COUNCILS).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

In another way it denotes firmness, wherefore in olden times the term "sancta" was applied to such things as were upheld by law and were not to be violated.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

As he inserts them, he says the words newly assigned to each one: “Per sua sancta vulnera” at the first, “gloriosa” at the second, etc.

Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.1 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the New Fire, Procession, Exultet, Prophecies 2009

He explains that, by the mid-1960s, transatlantic smoking rooms had metamorphosed from turn-of-the- century, men-only sancta for smoking, drinking, gambling and occasional vulgarity into larger, less smoky and prettier public rooms admitting their wives.

When the Going Was Good Martin Rubin 2011

He does not, however, represent recognizable Jewish thought or practice in his mis- representations of the Torah and other Jewish sancta -- or for that matter, New Testament and Christian biblical interpretation and theology.

Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.: Eddie Long Is Not A 'King' Ph.D. Rev. Wil Gafney 2012

Judica me Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me.

Think Progress » Archdiocese responds to controversy over its decision to kick children with lesbian parents out of school. 2010

The early fathers of the Christian Church — Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, and Gregory the Great — transformed classical architectural mnemonics into sancta memoria (holy recollection), a monastic practice of meditation that cultivated the memory through aedificatio, a process in which the craft of edifying thoughts mirrored the edifying craft of architecture.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

The convivial aspirations of sancta memoria fortified personal expression.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Building on this tradition, Christian theologians conceived sancta memoria, a medieval practice of meditation in which mechanisms and processes of architectural construction figured as metaphors for spiritual edification.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

The economic debacle that has diminished and may demolish the sancta sanctorum of the University -- from Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the entire system at the University of California -- is an essential element of this sense of loss.

Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox 2010