aureola

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My theory is that there is a human aureola.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is, therefore, perfectly right for the Church to surround Christ and Christianity with this divine aureola of reverence and wonder, not exaggerating it, but neither understating it.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

A new painting had just been hung in the church,—the Holy Child, called by the people “Little Jesus,” with an aureola about his head.

From Fairy Book by May, Sophie

His face wore a look of triumph, and was surrounded by an aureola which dazzled Rosanette.

From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave

The balloon threw large shadows on this heap of clouds, and was surrounded as by an aureola.

From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Verne, Jules