Ave Maria

Example Sentences

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At the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Rome's southern EUR district, bells played "Ave Maria" for Riccardo as hundreds of people spilled out into the street, far too many to fit inside.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

Softly at first then louder, as if to encourage those who joined in timidly, the nuns broke into Ave Maria.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

The project now covers 2,000 square miles encompassing smaller inland towns like Ave Maria.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

Forty students from Ave Maria University in Florida who traveled to Washington said they intended to participate in protests back home.

From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Mary: Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum; benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.

From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Schoffen, Elizabeth