benedictus

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Mozart never got around to finishing the Mass, which ends with a Benedictus but no “Dona nobis pacem,” no plea for the end of conflict.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2022

Leo Benedictus examines the history of such literary frauds and asks some of the writers why they allowed a fiction to mask the truth.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2019

The son of Wim Cox, a documentary filmmaker, and the former Else Kuminack, Paulus Henricus Benedictus Cox was born on April 16, 1940, in Venlo, in the Netherlands near the German border.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2016

By Posted Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, at 12:47 PM ET Animi et corporis fluctuatio deinceps Benedictus XVI edidit consilium de papatu abdicandum fine Februarii.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

The Benedicite is sung instead of the Te Deum; the Benedictus is recited in full, and the Collect for the First Sunday in Advent is used daily throughout the Season.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James