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  • This drift dismays others for whom self-determination is not a priority, such as Dolors Camats of the Green party.

    Spain: why prosperous Catalans may beat rebellious Basques to the exit 2011

  • Although our church, like our school, was called St. Mary's, its official name was Our Lady of Seven Dolors.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • Although our church, like our school, was called St. Mary's, its official name was Our Lady of Seven Dolors.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • One Sunday afternoon, after the usual meeting of the confraternity, the saint went to the alter of sodality; it was the altar of the Dolors.

    Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius

  • Dolors & lamentations: waiting oft beside the dewy grave

    Poems of William Blake William Blake 1792

  • Other times she will go to Mass at nearby St. Patrick's in Ogden because there are fewer people in attendance than her home parish of Seven Dolors in Manhattan.

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  • "The Seven Dolors," the title by which it was celebrated in the 17th century, referred to the seven swords that pierced the Heart of Mary.

    Clerical Whispers 2008

  • All of them I offer to thee, in memory of the Dolors which thou didst suffer during thy life, that every thought of my mind, every beating of my heart may henceforward be an act of compassion to thy Sorrows, and of complacency for the glory thou now enjoyest in Heaven.

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  • All of them I offer to thee, in memory of the Dolors which thou didst suffer during thy life, that every thought of my mind, every beating of my heart may henceforward be an act of compassion to thy Sorrows, and of complacency for the glory thou now enjoyest in Heaven.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • All of them I offer to thee, in memory of the Dolors which thou didst suffer during thy life, that every thought of my mind, every beating of my heart may henceforward be an act of compassion to thy Sorrows, and of complacency for the glory thou now enjoyest in Heaven.

    Latest Articles 2008

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