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Sanctus   Listen
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Sanctus  n.  
1.
(Eccl.) A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus (Holy, holy, holy); called also Tersanctus.
2.
(Mus.) An anthem composed for these words.
Sanctus bell, a small bell usually suspended in a bell cot at the apex of the nave roof, over the chancel arch, in mediaeval churches, but a hand bell is now often used; so called because rung at the singing of the sanctus, at the conclusion of the ordinary of the Mass, and again at the elevation of the host. Called also Mass bell, sacring bell, saints' bell, sance-bell, sancte bell.






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... Apoc. XXII, 11: "Qui iustus est, iustificetur adhuc, et sanctus sanctificetur adhuc." On the different meanings of the term justification in Scripture see Bellarmine, De Iustific., ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle

... and which would forever be sole master of art. The new Christian spirit arose with Paulinus, disciple of Ausonius; Juvencus, who paraphrases the gospels in verse; Victorinus, author of the Maccabees; Sanctus Burdigalensis who, in an eclogue imitated from Vergil, makes his shepherds Egon and Buculus lament the maladies of their flock; and all the saints: Hilaire of Poitiers, defender of the Nicean faith, the Athanasius of the Occident, as he has been ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... oratio, hunc sensum in sua lingua. Respice quam iustus et sanctus extitit homo iste, quem Angeli Dei conueniunt accipere et in Paradisum deferre. Talique diabolico errore delusi, putant filius, et amici, quod defunctus sit in Paradisum translatus, viuat illic sempiterne beatus, quoniam, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 9 - Asia, Part 2 • Richard Hakluyt

... of composition, the most important was the mass, consisting of Kyrie, Sanctus, and other prescribed numbers, much as at the present day. More free in form was the motet, in which religious subjects were treated in contrapuntal fashion. The madrigal differed from this only in ...
— Woman's Work in Music • Arthur Elson

... it so"—said Don Aloysius, tranquilly—"We have believed in what you call your 'wireless telephony'—for centuries;—when the Sanctus bell rings at Mass, we think and hope a message from Our Lord comes to every worshipper whose soul is 'in tune' with the heavenly current; that is one of your 'scientific discoveries'—and there are hundreds ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli

... Eodem anno.] partibus sub Duce Dominico. Eodem anno yemps asperima a circumcisione domini vsque ad Annunciacionem perduravit. Anno Domini Millesimo [Sidenote: Anno vij^{o} regis H. iij^{cii}.] cc^{mo} xiiij^{o} Sanctus Franciscus incepit ordinem fratrum Minorum iuxta assisum. Et Anno Millesimo cc^{mo} xxiiij^{to} venerunt primo in Angliam per biennium ante obitum sancti Francisci. Anno Millesimo [Sidenote: Anno v^{to} regis H. tertij.] cc^{mo} xxj^{o} In festo sancte ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous

... TE—Thee—and occurs three times. Similarly in the second line TIBI—to Thee: and in the fourth line TE. The last line of this Stanza varies, it is true, as the last line of the middle Stanza does, but retaining a triple thought, viz. the Holy Trinity. The third line has the Ter-Sanctus. ...
— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson

... habet pro se Latio Romanus in orbe, Graecia vel quidquid transmisit Clara Latinis. Hebraicus vel quod populus bibet imbre superno Africa lucifluo vel quidquid lumine sparsit. Quod Pater Hieronymus quod sensit Hilarius, atque Ambrosius Praesul simul Augustinus, et ipse Sanctus Athanasius, quod Orosius, edit avitus: Quidquid Gregorius summus docet, et Leo Papa; Basilius quidquid, Fulgentius atque coruscant Cassiodorus item, Chrysostomus atque Johannes: Quidquid et Athelmus docuit, quid Beda Magister, Quae Victorinus scripsere, Boetius; atque Historici veteres, ...
— Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather

... (clergy who have district chapels) have returned, chanting Psalms, and reading collects, which bear especially on the subject of unity, introducing the special Communion thanksgiving for Whitsunday, and the Sanctus, and the Prayer for Unity in the Accession Service. I feel that it must be an impressive and very happy way of ending the Sunday, and you will be at Sunday prayers at the other end of the world praying ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... (Sanctus Amantius), pop. 3000, about m. from the station. It is situated on the N. end of the tang de Berre, and on both sides of a short narrow ridge of soft sandstone pierced with excavations. The Government ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black

... Kingfisher in New Zealand (Halcyon vagans, Less.) considered identical by many with H. sanctus of Australia, but concluded by Butler to be ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... knew of the life and works of 'Dominus Sanctus Nicolaus' was told them by the Spaniards at the time of their influence in Holland, and so it is believed that the Saint was born at Myra, in Lycie, and lived in the commencement of the fourth century, in the reign of Constantine the Great. From his earliest youth he showed ...
— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough

... Flanders. But no Danes, no Flemings, came. Disputes arose between Cnut and his brother Olaf, and the great enterprise came to nothing. William kept part of his mercenaries in England, and part he sent to their homes. Cnut was murdered in a church by his own subjects, and was canonized as Sanctus Canutus by a Pope who could not speak ...
— William the Conqueror • E. A. Freeman



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