"Yes, but I make hereby a vow in your presence, to employ all that remains to me in pious works."

December 16 - Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works (born 1611)

April 17 - Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works (died 1698)

Toribio carried out his pious works in an exemplary manner with emphasis on examination of conscience, meditation, spiritual exercises and visits to the Holy Sacrament.

By 1752, increased hostility put Gnadenhutten at risk for attack, but the missionaries' pious good works did not go unnoticed.

The stigma is usually confined to creative literature rather than to pious or scholarly works.

Instead, he 'found God' throwing himself into pious works, the most enduring of which was the foundation of Westminster Abbey.

There it was that, after passing the day in prayers and pious works, Cardinal Roderigo used to repair each evening and lay aside his mask.

And she a widow, who should be engaged in pious works!

Since the advent of printing, the sale of reproductions of pious works has been a major element of popular Christian culture.