The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1383 page)

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Little Brothers
(order founded by):
Little Entrance
.
In the
Orthodox
liturgy of the
eucharist
, the procession with the book of the gospels at the beginning of the liturgy of the catechumens.
See also
GREAT ENTRANCE
.
Little Flowers of St Francis
:
Little Gidding
.
The early 17th-cent. Hunting-donshire community of about forty members led by the Anglican
deacon
Nicholas Ferrar (1592–1637). Often critically referred to as ‘the Arminian Nunnery’, from the title of a scurrilous pamphlet published in 1641, the household ordered its life by a set pattern of spiritual devotion with daily services, also paying attention to the study of theology and the practice of daily work.
Little Office of Our Lady
.
A Christian devotion, modelled on a day of the daily
office
, in honour of the Virgin
Mary
.
Little Russians
:
Little Spring Time
:

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