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
She was a Christian, so devout that she would have hung her head in the potato field had she heard the ringing of the angelus.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read
As his angelus rings out I fancy all wild heads bowed in adoration.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
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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