Alfonso then took the infant from Sulpicia, and, presenting it to Lorenzo, he said, "Signor and brother, receive your nephew, my son, and see whether it please you to give permission for the public solemnisation of my marriage with this peasant girl-the only one to whom I have ever been betrothed."
"The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Catholic recusants were to be subjected to the former penalties: they were sentenced to exclusion from the palace and from the capital; they were forbidden to hold any appointment in the public service either in the administration of justice, or as government officials, or even as physicians; they were obliged to open their houses at any moment for examination; the solemnisation of their marriages and the baptism of their children were henceforth to be legal only if performed by Protestant clergymen.
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)"
Leopold von Ranke
And presently one morning came,-warm with the breath of summer, sunny and beautiful,-when the window was solemnly re- consecrated by Bishop Brent at ten o'clock,-a consecration followed by the loud and joyous ringing of the bells, and a further sacred ceremony,-the solemnisation of matrimony between John Walden and Maryllia Vancourt.
"God's Good Man"
Marie Corelli