holy order

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So the back‑pass rule became a holy order to hoof, a proclamation from above that this was now at least half the goalkeeper's job.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2011

She was the 17-year-old daughter of a nobleman of Assisi; she founded a holy order for women, was canonized after her death like Francis, whom she had loved all her life.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I was the Heir of Mountjoy; and my father had knelt before a King of France and been made Knight of a holy order for his deeds on the Plains of Jerusalem.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay

First there are the priests, a holy order set apart and endowed with mysterious power, representing Christ and administering his gifts.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire

That utterest command by the holy order of Anu.

From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Langdon, Stephen