holy order

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So the back‑pass rule became a holy order to hoof, a proclamation from above that this was now at least half the goalkeeper's job.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2011

She was the 17-year-old daughter of a nobleman of Assisi; she founded a holy order for women, was canonized after her death like Francis, whom she had loved all her life.

From Time Magazine Archive

After due study, the abbot seeing him qualified for the priesthood, obliged him to receive that holy order when he was about thirty years old.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

My father did not wish me to take the vows of this holy order.

From A Chinese Wonder Book by Chu-T'ang, Li

Thus it will result in a very fine building indeed, and just as the affairs of that so distinguished and holy order are wont to result.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander