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Ave Maria   /ˈævənu mərˈiə/   Listen
noun
Ave Mary, Ave Maria  n.  
1.
A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; used in the Roman Catholic church. "To number Ave Maries on his beads."
2.
A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. "Ave Maria! blessed be the hour!"





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"Ave maria" Quotes from Famous Books



... fresh voice began to sing 'Ave Maria' in the music-room, and Bess unconsciously echoed her father's prayer for her as she dutifully obeyed his wishes. The soft sound of the air Marmee used to sing led the listeners back into the world again from that momentary reaching after the loved and lost, and they ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... "Ave Maria," said the woman; "whom have we here? This is not Gil the clock-maker." "Whether it be Gil or Juan," said I, "we are in need of your hospitality, and can pay for it." Our first care was to stable the horses, who were much exhausted. We then went ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... Tyrolian legend of "a poor idiot boy, who lived alone in the forest and was never heard to say any words but 'Ave Maria.' After his death a lily sprang up on his grave, on whose petals 'Ave Maria' might be ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... learned from my mother the Pater Noster, the Ave Maria, and the Belief. All that I know was taught me by ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Volume 2 • Mark Twain
... at the first notes, then sat with bowed head. I filled the old church with an Ave Maria, then another. As I sang, the candles seemed to have been lighted on the gilded altars, and the brown friars and dusky Indians took ...
— The Lure of San Francisco - A Romance Amid Old Landmarks • Elizabeth Gray Potter and Mabel Thayer Gray


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