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  • The word orbi may be either the plural nominative of orbus meaning "deprived" "orphaned," or it may be the dative singular of Orbis meaning "for the world."

    Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

  • The pope sat at the window while Cardinal Sodano read a message on the pope's behalf, his traditional urbi ex orbi, the Sunday, the Easter Sunday blessing known as urbi ex orbi, which is to the city and to the world, in which the pope called for peace in the Middle East and Africa, as well as prayed for the victims of natural disaster and those suffering from hunger and poverty.

    CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2005 2005

  • Coolest Concepts » Blog Archive » B-Touch, telefonul pentru orbi!

    B-Touch Innovative Mobile Touchphone For The Blind by Zhenwei You » Yanko Design 2009

  • Note 34: "Cl [audio] Ptolomaeo Alexandrino, ob certam astrorum dimensionem, inductasq [ue] orbi terrarum lineas, vigiliis laboriq [ue] aeterno Fed [ericus] dedit."

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • I implore the international community to do everything possible to help Israelis and Palestinians to get out of this dead-end street and to not resign themselves -- as I said a few days ago in the "urbi et orbi" message -- to the perverse logic of confrontation and violence, but rather to give priority to the path of dialogue and negotiation.

    Benedict XVI on the Feast of the Holy Family papabear 2009

  • VERBUM supernum prodiens a Patre lumen exiens, qui natus orbi subvenis cursu declivi temporis:

    Verbum Supernum Prodiens bls 2009

  • It was unaware of the historical importance of the occasion, having recently been reduced into a tiny tinfoil packet -- but it was there, right there, orbi ...

    Kira Craft: The Noble Turkey: A Brief History 2008

  • It is not uncommon for cardinals to celebrate masses in the pope's stead, but the Easter urbi et orbi address is a pope's personal message "to the city and to the world."

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • This Easter the urbi et orbi was read out by Cardinal Sodano.

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • It was unaware of the historical importance of the occasion, having recently been reduced into a tiny tinfoil packet -- but it was there, right there, orbi ...

    Kira Craft: The Noble Turkey: A Brief History 2008

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