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I was passing little Loch Breac, which is screened, you’ll likely know, by bushes —’
My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977
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She is lovingly called the "Queen of the South: the Mary of the Gael" by a writer in the "Leabhar Breac".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The tract in the Irish "Leabhar Breac" speaks of elevating the chalice "quando canitur Imola Deo sacrificium laudis", but the Stowe, being a priest's book, is silent about any antiphon here, though the prayers said by the priest are given.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The "Leabhar Breac" tract only mentions the first.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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From the same "Leabar Breac" Sylvester Malone quotes the following account of confirmation which exhibits an accurate belief on the part of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Antiphoner, the "Leabhar Breac", and the Book of Cerne.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Breac omits all this and only speaks (as does the Stowe tract earlier) of a fraction in two halves, a reuniting and a commixture, the last of which in the Stowe Canon comes after the Pater Noster.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Sauren claims that the first and oldest Marian litany is a pious laus to the Virgin in the "Leabhar Breac", a fourteenth-century MS., now in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, and written "in the purest style of Gaedhlic", according to O'Curry, who explained its various parts.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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It contains part of the Gospel of St. John, probably quite unconnected with what follows, bound up with the Ordinary and Canon of the Mass, three Masses, the Order of Baptism and of the Visitation, Unction, and Communion of the Sick, and a treatise in Irish on the Mass, of which a variant is found in the "Leabhar Breac".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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As a matter of fact, Dr. Sicking has shown that the entire laus of the "Leabhar Breac" is copied almost word for word from the first and third of the "Sermones Dubii" of St. Ildephonsus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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