On her deathbed she made her son promise to become a holy man. Becoming a priest was not easy.
The pope flew to Guatemala for the canonization mass for the 17th Century holy man Pedro de San Jose de Betancourt.
Millions of sadhus, or impoverished Hindu holy men, make the pilgrimage to bathe in the sacred river.
Although he is still a holy man and dreams of reviving his monastic order, he has earned himself a reputation as a theatre critic.
Otherwise, this tzaddik lives and dies the same as any other holy man.
Additional meanings cited by dictionaries include: sage, poet, spiritual leader, wise man and holy man.
An encounter with a family struggling to survive in this harsh environment forces the holy man to confront his own fate.
The second of these statements contains a similar ambiguity in the phrase the most holy man.
