Definition of "evangels" [evangels]

• Plural form of evangel. (noun)

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• "All this shows only what Saint Francis was not; to understand what he was and how he goes with Saint Bernard and Saint Victor through the religious idyll of Transition architecture, one must wander about Assisi with the "Floretum" or "Fioretti" in one's hand; -- the legends which are the gospel of Francis as the evangels are the gospel of Christ, who was reincarnated in Assisi."
• "Even among the evangels there is much rethinking going on behind closed doors."
• "Meanwhile, evangels of the religious right scorn her as a Mary Magdalene, while pundits in the secular press ridicule her spirituality as flaky New Age blather."