Definition of Holy Sacrament

1. Noun. A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Holy Sacrament

Holy Communion
Holy Eucharist
Holy Father
Holy Ghost
Holy Grail
Holy Innocents' Day
Holy Joe
Holy Land
Holy Mother
Holy Mother of God
Holy Roller
Holy Rollers
Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
Holy Roman Empire
Holy Sacrament (current term)
Holy Scripture
Holy See
Holy Sepulcher
Holy Sepulchre
Holy Spirit
Holy Thursday
Holy Trinity
Holy War Warriors
Holy Wednesday
Holy Week
Holy Writ
Holy Year
Holy of Holies

Literary usage of Holy Sacrament

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the nineteenth century, however, confraternities for the adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament were also established in other countries, and these now ..."

2. The whole works of ... Jeremy Taylor, with a life of the author and a by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1856)
"Of the institution and reception of the holy sacrament of the Lord's supper. 1. As the sun among the stars, and man among the sublunary creatures, ..."

3. The rule and exercises of holy dying. [Another] by Jeremy Taylor (1859)
"He that baptizes, and he that ministers the holy Sacrament, and he that prays, does holy offices of great advantage; but in these also, just as in tho ..."

4. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus, Ralph Francis Kerr (1891)
"... the Cardinal went with our Lord of Magdeburg in the procession, which every year is wont to be made with the Holy Sacrament, and the Cardinal himself ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... mitted against him in the most holy sacrament, and that the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi should be set apart for this devotion. ..."

6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"... delightful " Como of the wilderness," was called originally by the French the Lake of the Holy Sacrament, and kept that title for a hundred years, ..."

7. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1877)
"Having received the Holy Sacrament, he implored the doctor not to order him meat, as he desired to keep his rule to the end. ..."

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