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For decades, many people of my generation have turned to her text-driven work as a breviary of cultural and political insight.

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He had a worn leather breviary stuffed with prayers and Mass cards he’d been collecting for years, and he read through them all at the dining-room table every night during the 11 o’clock news.

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On the wall hung a little cupboard which held Brother Luke’s few personal belongings and his breviary.

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But I was deeply engaged with most of the rest of this exhibition, especially the panels that come together as a personal and secular breviary of dying.

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In later years, he served as the librarian of Durham Cathedral and passed many happy months at the Vatican Library poring over its medieval English missals and breviaries.

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