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O.S.B.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Order of St. Benedict (Benedictine).


OSB British  

abbreviation

  1. Order of Saint Benedict

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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)