Statements of principle

Usage examples of credos.

In over two thousand closely printed pages, it managed to include all the festal days, the Hours of the monastic Office, the complex and elaborate rites once performed between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, the psalms and their intonations, a wealth of antiphons, Glorias, Credos, Introits, Graduals, smatterings of Ambrosian and even Gallican chant, and much more.

It reflected the beliefs and attitudes of a culture, the automatically accepted credos, the rigidities behind every thought and action.

But I was really fleeing my parents' hermetic world in southern Virginia, escaping from my mother's relentless social pretensions and, even more, from my father's call to the inviolable credos of a Southern gentleman.

Within the priest's fervent exclamatory credos, within their awesome reiterations, there was a kind of strange eldritch beauty, like the terrible beauty of an approaching storm out of the high hills.

III HOW MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE HAD HIS LAST ADVENTURE AMONG THE MEXICANS 1 They slept out for three nights, making their way with caution by little-frequented roads, from the mountains of Toledo, over the Sierra of Guadalupe, where Rocinante found it a strain when she climbed to over eight hundred metres only to find a yet greater strain when they reached the Sierra de Credos, where the road wound up to over fifteen hundred metres, for they avoided Salamanca and headed for the Duero river which separated them from the safety of Portugal.

He turned up in the modern era, quite healthy, strong, silent and without apology for the credos he had stuffed down my throat in the year 1500 before I was sent north to Paris.