"catholic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The abbey would remain a Catholic stronghold in the Protestant city until 1803.
- In the era of the Hussite Wars, Jihlava remained a Catholic stronghold and managed to resist a number of sieges.
- Waterford was the last Irish Catholic stronghold to hold out in the east of Ireland against the English Parliamentarian forces.
- Charles decided to head into Shropshire, a Catholic stronghold with many hiding places.
- Donnelaith had remained, right up to the bloody fire, a powerful Catholic stronghold.
- More blacks followed, faster still as white families moved away before a tide of immigrants from Catholic strongholds in the West Indies.
- In 1622 the Council of the City of La Rochelle ordered its destruction in place for a Catholic stronghold.
- Paris remained very much a Catholic stronghold, and executions continued apace up to the outbreak of religious civil war.
- The tower has been marked with a red cross to indicate that the new Toledo is to be ever a Catholic stronghold.
- The south, under Spanish rule, remained a Catholic stronghold; most of its Protestants fled to the north.
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