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  • Arbor decora et fulgida, ornata regis purpura, electa, digno stipite tam sancta membra tangere!

    September 14: the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross bls 2008

  • Arbor decora et fulgida, ornata regis purpura, electa, digno stipite tam sancta membra tangere!

    Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008

  • During the daytime, the cardinals will vote twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon, handwriting their choice for pope on ballots inscribed with the words electa ensumum pontificum (ph), I elect as supreme pontiff.

    CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2005 2005

  • Itaque in istis solennitatibus est populi multitudo absque numero, omnes tamen in ordine debito, et singuli intendentes proprio ministerio, nam ad hoc ordinandum, et disponendum, electa sunt quatuor Baronum nobilium genera, ex quibus nonnulli sunt

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Itaque in istis solennitatibus est populi multitudo absque numero, omnes tamen in ordine debito, et singuli intendentes proprio ministerio, nam ad hoc ordinandum, et disponendum, electa sunt quatuor Baronum nobilium genera, ex quibus nonnulli sunt

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Cf. the preface, 'Urbis Romae exterarumque gentium facta simul ac dicta memoratu digna, quae apud alios latius diffusa sunt quam ut breviter cognosci possint, ab illustribus electa auctoribus digerere constitui, ut documenta sumere volentibus longae inquisitionis labor absit.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • In truth, the song turns aside from both; by the spouse should be understood human nature as elected (electa elevata, sc. natura humana) and received by God.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Hoc autem ideo quia multis infectus criminibus mundus iacebat in morte, electa est una gens in qua dei mandata clarescerent, ibique missi prophetae sunt et alii sancti uiri per quorum admonitionem ipse certe populus a tumore peruicaciae reuocaretur.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Quicumque autem absistunt secundum sententiam suam ab eo, his eam quæ electa est ab ipsis separationem inducit.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • A quo interpretationis genere, quatenus sancti patres non discessere, eos non solum ut interpretes Scripturae recipimus, sed ut organa Dei electa veneramur.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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