1 a title used when talking to or about an important religious leader:
Yes, Your Holiness.
His Holiness Pope Francis
The holiness of the object is what evokes emotional responses of awe, terror, admiration, worship, and so forth.
Your holiness will have heard of our troubles - you cannot have failed to !
Catholics parcel the body parts of saints, believing that through these body parts we approximate the holiness of the saints.
The question is whether it is as strong as the holiness of the land on the other side.
Spiritual blessing includes such qualities as holiness, fulfillment, etc., whether in this world and\or the next.
It is possible to participate in holy work by being virtuous in the world, without having gifts of holiness.
One was that penitence and holiness were not to be bought at the price of asceticism, a position going against the prevailing wisdom.
For relics represent extraordinary holiness beneath which rests a heroic commitment to living morally.