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Agnus Dei

noun
1.
Figure of a lamb; emblematic of Christ.  Synonym: Paschal Lamb.
2.
A liturgical prayer beginning with these Latin words.





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"Agnus Dei" Quotes from Famous Books



... peccata mundi, miserere nobis! Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis! Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... establish peace in the country. Hundreds of men enrolled themselves at once. The confreres, from the fact that they wore hoods of white linen, obtained the name of Chaperons Blancs. Upon their breasts hung a piece of lead with this inscription: 'Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi dona nobis pacem.' The confraternity spread into Aquitaine, and the routiers were defeated in pitched battles with great slaughter; but the chaperons in course of time became lawless fanatics, and were almost as great a nuisance to society as those ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker
... contro alle leggi d'Inghilterra egli havesse portato seco una bollo papale, alcuni grani benedetti et agnus dei.' Martyrio di Cutberto Maino, in Pollini, Istoria eccl. delle rivolutioni d'Inghilterra p. 499. It is a pity that the eminent Hallam had not the first ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke


Words linked to "Agnus Dei" :   allegory, prayer, emblem


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