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Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Officium parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis

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Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1915

Historical bilingual prayer book with ecclesiastical approval. Follow the edition’s hours and seasonal rubrics; obsolete indulgence ratings in the book do not establish the present grant.

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This historical Little Office has multiple hours and seasonal forms. Duration depends on the hours and form selected, and whether recited or sung; no single total is assigned to the complete source volume.

Latin source

Little Office of Mary (1915) — Latin in the bilingual native edition · Latin hours begin on PDF pages 32, 72, 100, 162, 206, 220, 234 and 248; facing English follows each Latin page.

Historical approved edition with all eight hours and seasonal variants. Consult the rubrics beginning on PDF page 17 and use the applicable alternatives. Its 1915 imprimatur is on PDF page 10. Historical numerical indulgences printed in the book are not the current grant.

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