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  • As the Bishop hands on the chalice and paten:Accipe potestatem offerre sacrificium Deo, Missasque celebrare, tam pro vivis, quam pro defunctis.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Iesus autem vocavit eos ad se et ait: Scitis quia principes gentium dominantur eorum et, qui magni sunt, potestatem exercent in eos.

    Archive 2008-10-19 papabear 2008

  • Iesus autem vocavit eos ad se et ait: Scitis quia principes gentium dominantur eorum et, qui magni sunt, potestatem exercent in eos.

    The New Beginning papabear 2008

  • I thought that it was a matter of a poor translation, but I looked up the text in Officium Divinum, Liturgia Horarum, Iuxta Ritum Romanum, and found the following text: "Misericordiam tuam fratribus nostris concede defunctis / -- neque in potestatem maligni spiritus tradas eos."

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  • Nemo hercule quisquam; nam in me dii plane potestatem

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non pauci se cruciant, et excarnificant in tantum, ut non parum absint ab insania; neque tamen aliud hac mentis anxietate efficiunt, quam ut diabolo potestatem faciant ipsos per desperationem ad infernos producendi.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 118: VW 3.6, pp. 129 — 32, at 130: "amicum suum qui penes uos est uisitare dilectissimum"; and p. 131: "Ecce regina celi et domini mater patronum huic ecclesie adeo assignatum martirem Willelmum amicum equidem suum uisitare dilectum uenit, coronauit, eique pro libito curandi potestatem contulit." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Ergò per præmissa satis elucet magnam esse nobilitatem, potestatem, reuerentiam, et dominationem Imperatoris Tartariæ Grand Can de

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Post potestatem Imperij Tartariæ descendendo à prouincia Cathay in Australem plagam venitur versus Persiam, Syriam, et Greciam.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Idcirco patriarcha Antiochenus habet in illis Orientalibus partibus similem potestatem, quàm Pontifex Romanus in istis Occidentalibus.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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