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

As his angelus rings out I fancy all wild heads bowed in adoration.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

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

Inscripta Christo pagina immortalis est, Excepit adstans angelus coram Deo.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry