Skip to main content

angelus

/an-juh-luhs/US // ˈæn dʒə ləs //UK // (ˈændʒɪləs) //

天使,天使之城,天使之光,天使之心

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Roman Catholic Church.

    • : a devotion in memory of the Annunciation.
    • : Also called Angelus bell . the bell tolled in the morning, at noon, and in the evening to indicate the time when the Angelus is to be recited.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Like some sinuous sax, we first hear the thoughts of Obersturmfuhrer Angelus (Golo) Thomsen.

  • Francis was expected to name the new cardinals at his Sunday Angelus, which he did, or at his weekly audience on Wednesday.

  • The Angelus will be ringing from all the towers, I shall have celebrated my return to the city that I have loved.

  • Certainly those bells were passing glad and very sweet, and they were ringing, too, the Angelus.

  • The Angelus had sounded, and the Sacristan wished to close the church.

  • The same incident is renewed in the evening, between six and seven o'clock, when the bell sounds for the Angelus (Oraciones).

  • Bene autem vigilantibus pastoribus angelus apparet, eosque Dei claritas circumfulget.