In Religion
- The number of Stations of the Cross.
- The Fourteen Holy Helpers were a group of saints formerly venerated together by Roman Catholics.
- The number of muqatta'at in the Qur'an.
- The number of Infalliables (Masoomeen) in Shia Ithna-Asheri Islam.
- The number of pieces the body of Osiris was torn into by his fratricidal brother Set.
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“... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words of the Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint’s picture.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
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