Word: compline
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PERRIN DRAPPIER, beadle of Domremy: "Joan the Maid was a good girl, chaste, simple, and modest, all the years of her youth . . . When I did not ring for complin, Joan used to ask me why and scold me . . . She even promised me a present of wool if I would be regular in ringing...
...days Leslie Hore-Belisha, who used to take his holidays on the Riviera, immersed himself in the Cistercian routine. He rose at 2 a.m. for the night offices in the Abbey's austere white chapel. He assisted at Matins, Lauds, Prime Terce, High Mass, Nones, Vespers, Complin. Among white-habited monks he worked on the farm, helping to cut and shock corn. He watched the monks weave cloth, bake bread, bind manuscripts, work at sculpture and wood carving. He shared their single daily vegetarian meal...
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