Saints example sentences

Kabir, who probably lived in the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries, was one of the most influential saints.From the heavens above, Christ, saints and angels gaze upon the scene.Such people, especially craftspersons, peasants, traders and labourers, thronged to listen to these new saints and spread their ideas.They discussed spiritual matters, sought the blessings of the saints in solving their worldly problems, or simply attended the music and dance sessions.This tradition also included saints like Dadu Dayal, Ravidas and Mirabai.People used it to write holy texts, chronicles of rulers, letters and teachings of saints, petitions and judicial records, and for registers of accounts and taxes.What a thunderclap these words were to me! Oh, the wretches; that was what they had put up at the town-hall! My last French lesson! Why, I hardly knew how to write! I should never learn any more! I must stop there, then! Oh, how sorry I was for not learning my lessons, for seeking birds eggs, or going sliding on the Saar! My books, that had seemed such a nuisance a while ago, so heavy to carry, my grammar, and my history of the saints, were old friends now that I couldn t give up.This term included saints or Sufis and other religious personalities, daring colonisers and deified soldiers, various Hindu and Buddhist deities and even animistic spirits.A unique feature of most of the saints is that their works were composed in regional languages and could be sung.The seventh to ninth centuries saw the emergence of new religious movements, led by the Nayanars (saints devoted to Shiva) and Alvars (saints devoted to ishnu) who came from all castes including those considered “untouchable” like the Pulaiyar and the Panars.Thus the songs as we have them today are as much a creation of the saints as of generations of people who sang them.