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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.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2020
Concealed in his saddlebags he carried a Mass kit and a Latin breviary.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 1 he lunches in his upstairs apartment, at 1:30 he reads his breviary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then with Father Angelus, his secretary, he read his breviary before reading and decoding the day's dispatches.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the wall hung a little cupboard which held Brother Luke’s few personal belongings and his breviary.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Moreover, the widespread liturgical experimentation encouraged by Vatican II seriously undermined a profitable "black book" trade in breviaries, missals and hymnals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides many missals, breviaries, lives and legends of the Saints, 'Books of Hours,' and other religious works.
From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne
With slow steps they passed along the corridor and into the choir of the darkened church, which was lighted only by the scattered wax-lights of the brethren who were deciphering their manuscript breviaries.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Breadfruit-, mango- and orange-trees grew in the tangled tall grass, and the garden where the priests had read their breviaries was a wilderness of tiger-lilies.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
Opposite them three priests read in their breviaries the prayers of the dying.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
