1.   Her cult was particularly prevalent in eastern Gaul, though images of her have been found as far west as Gloucestershire.

2.   Many would say that a cult is considerably less than a minority.

3.   Miracles were performed at his tomb and until the Reformation there was a cult of St Richard the Hermit there.

4.   The cult is a survival from the old Zoroastrian religion.

5.   What they often fail to see is that cults are a direct result of blocked politics.

6.   The cult of relics was important and great churches were built to house such relics.

7.   In episcopal hands a cult was a powerful weapon, even against the king.

8.   And so the cult was born.

9.   As crowds swelled, as newspaper and magazine sales went stratospheric, as TV ratings soared, the Diana cult was born.

10.   At the time, she told relatives that the cult was self-supporting, that its members drove expensive cars, lived communally and were celibate, Bull said.