breviary

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He had a worn leather breviary stuffed with prayers and Mass cards he’d been collecting for years, and he read through them all at the dining-room table every night during the 11 o’clock news.

From New York Times • May 26, 2020

It came on the day after Christmas, in 1948, when 16 political policemen armed with automatic rifles took him to their notorious Andrassy Street headquarters, stripped him of his breviary, rosary and religious habit.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the request of their priests, some bishops will push for a drastic shortening of the breviary, the collections of psalms, verses and readings that ordained clerics must recite every day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Concealed in his saddlebags he carried a Mass kit and a Latin breviary.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the wall hung a little cupboard which held Brother Luke’s few personal belongings and his breviary.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli