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'Non Angli, sed angeli' is what the future Pope Gregory the Great is supposed to have said at the sight of fair-haired Anglo-Saxon boys being sold as slaves in Rome: tradition has it that he was so struck by this encounter that he set about the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity (Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, II,1).
The Christian Artist 2009
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The plans came back from Rome with a question: Sunt angeli?
Ken Blackwell: The Economics of Life and Marriage Ken Blackwell 2011
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Pope Gregory I reportedly said of the Angles in England that they were "Non angli sed angeli" - not angles, but Angels!
IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns? Alexandra Petri 2011
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The plans came back from Rome with a question: Sunt angeli?
Ken Blackwell: The Economics of Life and Marriage Ken Blackwell 2011
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Intarsiated figures of Apollo and Minerva in the sala degli angeli.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The introit text varies according to the feast on which it is used - this version bids us rejoice 'sub honore Mariae Virginis, de cujus Assumptione gaudent angeli'.
Archive 2009-10-01 bls 2009
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The Communion song for the day is Benedicite, omnes angeli, from Daniel 3:58 part of the Benedicite, omnia opera:
Archive 2009-09-01 bls 2009
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The Communion song for the day is Benedicite, omnes angeli, from Daniel 3:58 part of the Benedicite, omnia opera:
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The introit text varies according to the feast on which it is used - this version bids us rejoice 'sub honore Mariae Virginis, de cujus Assumptione gaudent angeli'.
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The introit text varies according to the feast on which it is used - this version bids us rejoice 'sub honore Mariae Virginis, de cujus Assumptione gaudent angeli'.
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