venerables

(You get the feeling her parents should at least be "venerables".) [Information on Bl. Bonne is from a much longer passage in Engelbert's Lives of the Saints. posted by John at 1: 07 AM

10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002

When establishment venerables congregate to stroke their chins and reach consensus, not a whole lot of crockery is in danger of being broken.

American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

I mean, who call themselves critics of poetry anymore, save Stephen Burt, perhaps the venerables like Vendler and Perloff, a handful of others?

Writing and Failure (Part 2) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

In the case of Edith Stein, even those second-class relics -- rosaries and crucifixes she used, clothes she wore -- were destroyed when the Nazis burned the Carmelite convent in Echt. Thus, without these very tangible means whereby Catholics for millennia have invoked intercession, Stein's cause seemed destined for a lengthy stay in that limbo reserved for those venerables who lack the miracles required of blesseds and saints.

Making Saints 2008

So there I am under Arts and Humanities/Literature being saved for the nation along with J. K.Rowling and all sorts of other venerables.

Reasons for blogging 1 2006

So there I am under Arts and Humanities/Literature being saved for the nation along with J. K.Rowling and all sorts of other venerables.

65 entries from December 2006 2006

So there I am under Arts and Humanities/Literature being saved for the nation along with J. K.Rowling and all sorts of other venerables.

Reasons for blogging 1 2006

Lord M. has engaged the two venerables to stay here to attend the issue: and I, standing very high at present in their good graces, am to gallant them to Oxford, to Blenheim, and to several other places.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Indeed, in this place, with its tombs of John Winthrop and Paul Revere and such venerables, one felt the whole heavy weight of history.

Beacon Street Mourning Day, Dianne 2000

Rossi, the Venerable Jean Eudes, and many other saints, blesseds, and venerables, were proud to belong to the sodalities of the Blessed

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