0 the act of using your influence to make someone in authority forgive someone else or save them from punishment:
Several political prisoners have been released through the intercession of Amnesty International.
Of course, when the highest men desire prayer and intercession, that is quite a different thing.
The mill ground the grain automatically due to the intercession of the saint's prayers.
Hundreds of votive tablets covering the walls of the crypt testify the granted intercession of the saint.
As a patron saint, she is asked for her intercession in difficult marriages and for people ridiculed for their piety.
She holds in her outstreched arms an orarion or veil, which symbolizes the protection of her intercession.
The saint's intercession was powerful in times of pestilence and contagious diseases among cattle.
The intercession of the wali is sought on a variety of occasions, particularly by those seeking cures or by barren women desiring children.
Only an intercession by a powerful friend could preserve him.