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								        | Ave Maria  (Ave Maria ) |   |  
								        | (Language:  Latin) |  
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											        | Short Description: | "Hail, Mary"; traditional prayer to the Blessed Virgin |  
													| Long Description: | "Hail, Mary"; traditional prayer to the Blessed Virgin, also known as the Angelic Salutation, based on the words of the Archangel Gabriel and Saint Elizabeth in Luke 1:28 and Luke 1:42. |  
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													| Source(s): | The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity,  by  Frithjof Schuon, edited by  Dr. James S. Cutsinger |  
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