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1  Gabriel the seraph had come to the virgin's chamber.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  He was born of a virgin pure, Mary the virgin mother.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  God and the Blessed Virgin were too far from him: God was too great and stern and the Blessed Virgin too pure and holy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  I remember a sentence of Newman's in which he says of the Blessed Virgin that she was detained in the full company of the saints.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  On the wall of his bedroom hung an illuminated scroll, the certificate of his prefecture in the college of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  A faded world of fervent love and virginal responses seemed to be evoked for his soul by the reading of its pages in which the imagery of the canticles was interwoven with the communicant's prayers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  His actual reception of the eucharist did not bring him the same dissolving moments of virginal self-surrender as did those spiritual communions made by him sometimes at the close of some visit to the Blessed Sacrament.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  And she did not like him to play with Eileen because Eileen was a protestant and when she was young she knew children that used to play with protestants and the protestants used to make fun of the litany of the Blessed Virgin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  He crossed the bridge over the stream of the Tolka and turned his eyes coldly for an instant towards the faded blue shrine of the Blessed Virgin which stood fowl-wise on a pole in the middle of a ham-shaped encampment of poor cottages.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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10  Sunday was dedicated to the mystery of the Holy Trinity, Monday to the Holy Ghost, Tuesday to the Guardian Angels, Wednesday to saint Joseph, Thursday to the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, Friday to the Suffering Jesus, Saturday to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4