Their intercessor was no less than the mayor himself who was able to settle the family feud. From LearnThat.org.
The icon is an 'intercessor', an active mediator, because it is a presence that draws you into a shared prayer. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'] Reference
An "intercessor" is a person who prays on behalf of another. From Wordnik.com. [Pastor Steven Furtick] Reference
There is only one intercessor to whom this is needless. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
And Rodrigo arose and prayed to our lady and intercessor. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Have we no intercessor here to plead with King, who came. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
This good work cost the benevolent intercessor his life. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Father, a mediator and intercessor for all those who have faith in. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge] Reference
“Be thou my intercessor with Sharper Ali that he take me to wife.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Queen, whose fears began again to unfit her for the duty of intercessor. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
As noted Evangelicals are hostile even to the idea of Mary as intercessor. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor"] Reference
Even though you morn his loss; what a wonderful intercessor you have in heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Wanted: Bears for Joshua] Reference
Condescend to give shelter for the time being, and become the intercessor with Tamiya Dono. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
No mediator is needed between the soul and the Soul of our souls; no intercessor or redeemer. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
The boy was liberated, but the comely intercessor was impressed into the service of the captain. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
The archic man has got so far he can play the part of intercessor between Cyaxares and his Medes. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
Karen Armstrong has been honored around the world especially as an intercessor among the Abrahamic faiths. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Novogratz: Chautauqua Institution Spotlights Compassion] Reference
The mysterious intercessor himself melted away stage left before it could occur to me to wonder who he was. From Wordnik.com. [David Dagan: How Not to Catch a Thief] Reference
To emphasise the deep concern of the intercessor about the needs of the UPGs, there is a desire to fast and pray. From Wordnik.com. [Intercession for the Unreached Peoples] Reference
The part I feel most eager and able to pass on here has to do with the role of the intercessor: why is it needed?. From Wordnik.com. [Standing in The Breach] Reference
When Mary is present, it is not as the passive object of sympathy but as an active intercessor for mother or child. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
An intercessor to reverse the suffering in the world through miracles has, therefore, no place in Buddhist thought. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing The New Spain] Reference
His mother, and only when they had invoked her as intercessor, bowed towards them with His little arms outstretched. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
He represents the blood, sweat and tears of those who suffer under the Law as it stands, their advocate, their intercessor. From Wordnik.com. [The Stain of Sin] Reference
A woman who has suffered anguish and humiliation, who has paid a price, becomes the intercessor for the sufferings of others. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Why Clinton Won Texas, And What That Means Going Forward] Reference
After the biblical period, “Mother Rachel” continued to be celebrated as a powerful intercessor for the people of Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel: Bible.] Reference
I was high in credit with him, as an intercessor for the folk and an intermediary between them and him, when they wanted aught of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
That praying to saints for the remission of sins, is misplacing adoration; as the saints themselves have occasion for an intercessor in. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Its more ascetic doctrine stressed instead the importance of the founder as the sole effective intercessor between this world and the next. From Wordnik.com. [1782] Reference
They suppose it to be endued with more sagacity than any other animal, except the owl, and to be peculiarly their intercessor with the Evil. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
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