Examples of intercession

• 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.