14 (number) - in Religion

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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Famous quotes containing the word religion:

    We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)