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75. THE "ANGELUS DOMINI," ETC., OR THE "REGINA CŒLI," ETC. The seraphic Doctor St. Bonaventura, in the General Chapter of his Order, held at Pisa in the year 1262, directed his religious to exhort the faithful to say, at the sound of the church-bell at even, three times the Ave Maria, in veneration of the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God in the most pure womb of the Blessed Virgin, by the operation of the Holy Ghost. This same devotion was also introduced into the episcopal church of Saintes (the capital of Saintogne in Western France), and was approved by Pope John XXII., by a Bull dated from Avignon, Oct. 13, 1318, who granted several days of Indulgence to all who should practise it with contrition; and this grant was renewed May 7, 1327, by him in the injunction he sent to his Cardinal Vicar, to issue at even in the Holy City a signal, by the sounding of the church-bell, to remind all persons to say these three Ave Maria. See F. Theodore A Spiritu Sancto de Indulgentiis, part ii. art. iv. § v.