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Missioner

noun
1.
Someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country.  Synonym: missionary.






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"Missioner" Quotes from Famous Books



... Life, a Slave and a Swine-Herd: Happy, though wretched Servitude! In which, his leisure Hours, mostly employed in Christian Confidence and Prayer, made him so signally the Favourite of Heaven, that from those cloudy Dawnings, he in Process of Time became a learned Doctor, a sanctified Missioner, a venerable Prelate, an eminent Primate, a national Apostle, and the bright Instructor of Kings! Such were the fruitful Rewards of uninterrupted unshaken Devotion, Piety, and Zeal! From this Time he formed the steady Resolution of converting the Irish; and, the ...
— An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland • Henry Brooke

... centuries, there are innumerable examples of oratories, some with stone roofs, others with roofs not so permanent, but all having the common features of an altar window facing the east, through which the sun fell at the beginning of the day to tell the early missioner that his hour of devotion had arrived, and a west door, through which the rays of the declining sun fell across the altar steps, speaking of a day that was closing. A south window was added close to the east end, ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox



Words linked to "Missioner" :   Jacques Marquette, Schweitzer, Marquette, religious person, Serra, Apostle Paul, Pere Jacques Marquette, Mother Theresa, Teresa, Mother Teresa, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Theresa, Junipero Serra, Pearl Buck, Saul, Paul, mission, St. Paul, Miguel Jose Serra, Albert Schweitzer, missionary, Apostle of the Gentiles, buck, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Paul the Apostle, Saul of Tarsus, Saint Paul



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