Sacred College

British  

noun

1. the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church

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Example Sentences

There he received the Christmas felicitations of a score of cardinals, delivered in a speech by Gennaro Granito Cardinal Pignatelli di Bel-nionte, 81, dean of the Sacred College.

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Bernardin is the only American among the 18 clerics who will be elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II at a special consistory on Feb. 2.

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Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes.

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With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense.

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At Night the Pope and the Sacred College assisted at the Miserere, which was sung in the great Chapel with Instrumental Music.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von