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

Bear with me that I transgressed the law of this holy order.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

First there are the priests, a holy order set apart and endowed with mysterious power, representing Christ and administering his gifts.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire

This is well known and a trite saying in our holy order.

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