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Definition of Novena
1. Noun. A Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days.
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Definition of Novena
1. Noun. (context: in the Roman Catholic Church) A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession ¹
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Definition of Novena
1. a religious devotion lasting nine days [n -NAS or -NAE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Novena
Literary usage of Novena
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Already in the Middle Ages the novena of Masses for popes and cardinals was ...
The usage still continues and consists chiefly in a novena of Masses for the ..."
2. Mary, Help of Christians, and the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers by Bonaventure Hammer, John James Burke (1909)
"229 X.—novena IN HONOR OF ST. EUSTACHIUS . 230 XI.—novena IN HONOR OF ST. ...
novena IN HONOR OF ST. BARBARA . . 235 novena TO ALL THE HOLY HELPERS FIRST ..."
3. Life of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, of the Society of Jesus by John Francis Xavier O'Conor (1891)
"TRIDUUM AND novena OF THE TERCENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF ST. ... A Plenary Indulgence
for the Triduum or for assisting five times at the novena, ..."
4. Life of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, of the Society of Jesus by John Francis Xavier O'Conor (1891)
"TRIDUUM AND novena OF THE TERCENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF ST. ... A Plenary Indulgence
for the Triduum or for assisting five times at the novena, ..."
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