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Angelus

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Angelus, Byzantine emperors

Angelus (ăn`jələs), family name and dynasty of three Byzantine emperors (1185–1204): see Isaac II Isaac II (Isaac Angelus) (ăn`jələs), d. 1204, Byzantine emperor (1185–95, 1203–4).
..... Click the link for more information. ; Alexius III Alexius III (Alexius Angelus) (əlĕk`sēəs, ăn`jələs), d. after 1210, Byzantine emperor (1195–1203).
..... Click the link for more information. ; Alexius IV Alexius IV (Alexius Angelus), d. 1204, Byzantine emperor (1203–4), son of Isaac II . When his father was deposed, Alexius fled to Italy and then went to Germany.
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Angelus, prayer

Angelus [Lat.,=angel], daily prayer of the Roman Catholic Church, said usually three times daily, as announced by a bell, traditionally at six in the morning, at noon, and at six in the evening. It is said in honor of the Incarnation and consists of three repetitions of the Hail Mary together with verses and a prayer. It takes its name from the opening word of the Latin version: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae [the angel of the Lord declared unto Mary].
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Sometimes one caught sight, upon a bell tower, of an enormous head and a bundle of disordered limbs swinging furiously at the end of a rope; it was Quasimodo ringing vespers or the Angelus.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
But they quarrelled, for one morning when she returned from the Angelus she found him in the kitchen coolly eating a dish which he had prepared for himself during her absence.
A Simple Soul by Flaubert, Gustave View in context
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