Being defined in canon 1055, it is a legal pre-requisite to sacramental marriage or Catholic marriage.

Re-marriages are specially allowed when a natural marriage becomes a sacramental marriage.

The convents, the indissolubility of sacramental marriage and the customary charitable works kept in check many difficulties.

"I can just hear her telling me, 'This is what you get for not having a sacramental marriage.' "

The church could refuse to marry those couples who do not seem to have the qualifications that would make for a sacramental marriage.

Another fundamental aspect of parish life is the worthy celebration of the sacraments, including sacramental marriage.

After three weeks in the mine, one man who was civilly married to his wife 25 years earlier asked her to enter into a sacramental marriage.

Holy Matrimony is another name for sacramental marriage.

It refers to the 1st centuries of the church, where spiritual union of spouses in the first sacramental marriage was eternal.

Various impediments can render a person unable to validly contract a sacramental marriage.