angelus

Example Sentences

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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

For it is the first summons to vespers, soon followed by the tinier tinkle of the angelus.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

They would linger a little in her head, and, perhaps, always wake at some sunset hour or some angelus chime, but not to trouble her.

From Bebee by Ouida

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 Read, Opie Percival