Some historians trace the Angelus to prayers said at the tolling of the curfew bell, first recorded in Normandy in 1061. The full Angelus, corresponding to our modern prayer, is first found in ...

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in SLO, California, had the same bell ringer for 63 years. When the man died, ... the 1,000-pound Angelus bell and the 850-pound Sorrowful bell.

Church officials say this is the latest chapter in the storied life of the St. Mary's Church bell, which was installed in the original church in 1866.

He saw the humble Barbizon peasants pause in their work to pray at the sound of the Angelus bell. Back in his studio, he painted the picture from memory. He sold it for $120.

GREAT BELL IS BLESSED BY ARCHBISHOP FARLEY; Beautiful Ceremony Performed at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral. TO RING FIRST ON CHRISTMAS First Public Angelus Bell on the Lower East Side the Gift of the ...

THE Angelus bell rings out on the first page of Mike McCormack’s novel, “Solar Bones”. It is the Catholic devotion that commemorates the mystery of the Incarnation.

The churches in my neighborhood don’t ring the Angelus bell anymore. (The closest thing is the muezzin’s call to prayer at a nearby mosque.) But I first encountered the Angelus, ...