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Benedictions for the dead recur in Salvatierra’s poetry, but so do sly critiques of consumerism, details accumulating in service of not only sorrow but laughter and the shock of juxtaposition.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2022

In the Hall of Benedictions, a long, corridor-like room with gold-ornamented walls and ceiling, the "imposition of the biretta" would mark a step in the elevation of some 30 prelates as princes of the Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three days later the Public Consistory was held in the Hall of Benedictions, which is above the fa�ade of St. Peter's basilica.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have seen the King of France touch for the Evil; The King of England go to the Parliament-House; and the Pope sitting in his Elbow-Chair, distributing his Benedictions.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

The congregation stood up for the Eighteen Benedictions.

From Yiddish Tales by Various