It is a case of sancta simplicitas; of the charming, because perfectly unconscious, self-sufficiency with which the Wit, rejecting pedantry as the source of all evil, thinks himself obviously entitled to lay down the law as theologian, politician, and philosopher.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
You have appealed to me because you unconsciously recognise that the Church is not the hierarchy alone, but the universal assemblage of all the faithful, gens sancta; that from the bottom of any Christian heart the living waters of the spring itself, of truth itself, may rush forth.
"The Saint"
Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer
Quid referam ut volitet crebras intacta per urbes Alba Palaestino sancta columba Syro?
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont