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
Instead of ange, angel, he has both angle and angre, where the r stands for the final l of angele, the more ancient French form of angelus.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
At the same moment the distant bell of one of those hamlets which border the sea-coast, or lie hidden in the mountain hollows, rang out the first peal of the angelus.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
An angelus beat against the torrid whiteness of a church-steeple with its blue wing, and Rabbit's noonday rest began.
From Romance of the Rabbit by Gladys Edgerton
