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- Ad orientem, meaning "to the east" in Ecclesiastical Latin, is a phrase used to describe the eastward orientation of Christian prayer and Christian worship...
- every praetorian prefecture (per Gallias, per Italiam, per Illyri****, per Orientem), and, in addition, for Thrace and, sometimes, Africa. On occasion, the...
- priest facing in the same direction as the people, is today called ad orientem (literally, "towards the east" − even if the priest is really facing in...
- rapidly occupied the eastern provinces, leading the Magister militum per Orientem, N****s, to defect to their side. Phocas swiftly dealt with him, by inviting...
- tradition, Methodius suggested that Christians pray facing the East ("ad orientem"). "From the height of heaven, O virgins, the sound of a voice makes itself...
- face the same direction as the congregation while celebrating M**** (ad orientem), although facing the congregation had become the prevailing practice since...
- stance called ad orientem. Following the Second Vatican Council, most priests began facing the congregation (versus populum), but ad orientem remained favoured...
- pertinent ad inferiorem partem fluminis Rheni; spectant in septentrionem et orientem solem. Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenaeos montes et eam partem Oceani...
- The comitatenses and later the palatini were the units of the field armies of the late Roman Empire. They were the soldiers that replaced the legionaries...
- centuries CE. He commanded the army in Mesopotamia as the magister militum per Orientem under Maurice. Together with Khosrow II, he fought against the Sasanian...