Word: aspergillum
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Then, shaking toward the boats drops of holy water from a silver aspergillum, the Archbishop read the blessing: "Deign. 0 Lord, to hear our supplications and bless these ships . . . and all who sail therein. . . . Extend to them Thy right hand as Thou didst to Peter walking upon the sea, and send Thy holy angel from Heaven to protect and guard them from every danger...
...Circus Krone, a European outfit in London, in which the animals were blessed with full Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...
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