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  • Item: his brother is most likely a Catholic, as are his mother, sister, chief mistress (she keeps a prie-Dieu in her bedroom now), and wife, and he is arguing with Parliament over the nonconformists (he is for toleration, bravo!)

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Item: his brother is most likely a Catholic, as are his mother, sister, chief mistress (she keeps a prie-Dieu in her bedroom now), and wife, and he is arguing with Parliament over the nonconformists (he is for toleration, bravo!)

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Here you can see Fr Brendan Gerard who was Deacon at the Mass and the dignified prie-Dieu that was decorated for the first Communion:

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • The archbishop pronounced the nuptial benediction, and as soon as the king had returned to his prie-Dieu, opened the mass.

    Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • The archbishop pronounced the nuptial benediction, and as soon as the king had returned to his prie-Dieu, opened the mass.

    Marie-Antoinette's Wedding elena maria vidal 2009

  • Apparently the last Pope to use this particular prie-Dieu was Pope Paul VI.

    A Papal Ceremony 2009

  • At the end of the mass the grand almoner approached the prie-Dieu of the king and presented to him the marriage register of the royal parish, which the cure had carried.

    Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • During the procession the Pope knelt on a ceremonial prie-Dieu which was specially designed by Bernini.

    A Papal Ceremony 2009

  • At the end of the mass the grand almoner approached the prie-Dieu of the king and presented to him the marriage register of the royal parish, which the cure had carried.

    Marie-Antoinette's Wedding elena maria vidal 2009

  • When, by chance, he received seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the visitors.

    Les Miserables 2008

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