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Among the Maories and their Polynesian kinsmen the priests are the great depositaries of tradition.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

Hence, the Priests were required to be intimately acquainted with the Sacred Scripture, because they were the depositaries of God's law, and were its expounders to the people.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James

Before the suppression of the friars, the convents were the great depositaries of this species of treasure. 

From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

The following, says Mr. Forster, are some of the benefits resulting from the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts:— That reform has reduced the depositaries for wills in this country from nearly 400 to 40.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

A small minority of the Cursives, just as a small minority of the Uncials, are probably the depositaries of peculiar recensions.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William