It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Argosy,'Father Giles of Ballymoy', May.

Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliffe churchyard Yeats is laid, An ancestor was rector there Long years ago; a church stands near, By the road an ancient Cross. No marble, no conventional phrase, On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Under Ben Bulben', stanza 6. Collected in Last Poems (1939).The last three lines were used as his epitaph.