angelus
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The Vatican confirmed the Pope will preside over the angelus prayer this coming Sunday, but next Wednesday's general audience will not take place "to safeguard the Holy Father's post-surgery recovery".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads the Sunday angelus prayer in Saint Peter Square at the Vatican February 10, 2013.
From Time ● Feb. 11, 2013
The Chapel bells chimed out their angelus across the fantasmal gloaming, tinkling through the girl's mood in utter harmony with the music of her soul, and the supernal smiles that lingered about her cupid lips.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
What had ye done to her, years upon years, That her head should be bowed down thus— Thus for your golden vespers, And deepening angelus?
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes
On we labored, the golden evening sun glinting down upon our picturesque row of haymakers, nor did we cease until the angelus sounded from the village spire.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various
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