angelus
Example Sentences
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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
Another usage is that of periodical prayer, in the fields, or wherever the peasants may happen to be employed, as in the angelus, &c.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper
Then, in the deepening dusk, two churches, one on each side of the river, began to sound the angelus.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
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
