Crossword-Solution: SANCTUS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Every hour the note of comfort and warning cries across the land, tells the Sanctus, the Angelus, and the Hours of the Passion, and calls to remembrance and prayer.

And upon that rock was Jacob sleeping when he saw the angels go up and down by a ladder, and he said, _Vere locus iste sanctus est_, _et ego ignorabam_; that is to say, ‘Forsooth this place is holy, and I wist it nought.’ And there an angel held Jacob still, and turned his name, and clept him Israel.

Cnut was murdered in a church by his own subjects, and was canonized as _Sanctus Canutus_ by a Pope who could not speak the Scandinavian name.

Christ, villaine? Why, darst thou presume to call on Christ, Without the intercession of some Saint? Sanctus Jacobus hee was my Saint, pray to him.

But the faint blush that tinged her cheek betrayed No marble statue, but a living maid; Perplexed and startled at his wondering look, Her rustling score of Mozart's Sanctus shook; The uncertain notes, like birds within a snare, Fluttered and died upon the trembling air.