Citations:odour of sanctity


 * 1839, Annals of the Propagation of the Faith, page 497:
 * It is not enough that their books should be treated with contempt, their persons too are far from being in the odour of sanctity with the natives. M. Aulagne, when  travelling, lately came to an inn at Cadappah, where he was asked who he was; ...
 * 1829, Walter Sneyd, Portraits of the Spruggins family, arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins
 * He took up his abode at Quimper Corentin, where he embraced the Catholic Religion, and spent the remainder of his life in acts of devotion and charity. He  was raised to the odour of sanctity by Pope Innocent XII. about the year 1700.