O.S.B.
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Rev. Alban Boultwood, O.S.B., and handed him a copy of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict as a reminder of an abbot's responsibilities.
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Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas.
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The Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, O.S.B., reputedly the first of his race to be ordained a Benedictine priest, had been invited by the Roman Catholic diocese to further its drive for interracial amity.
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New and cheaper revised edition brought down to the Reign of King George V, by Dom Henry Norbert Birt, O.S.B.
From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by Thomson, James Pringle
Wishing you health and an abiding place in the favour of God and His saints -- Your brother in the faith of Christ, "DUNSTAN, O.S.B."
From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
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