The Angelus bells ceased ringing and, the spell broken, Judith shook off her doubts.

His father, a full-time loomer, also held the job of ringing the Angelus bells in a local Premonstrant Abbey.

As Judith scattered the meal here and there, calling out 'Chook, chook, chook,' to the hens, she heard the Angelus bells ring.

Bells inscribed with Ave Maria are also numerous in England, but there the Angelus bells seem in a very large number of instances to have been dedicated to St Gabriel, the angel mentioned in the prayer (Luke 1:26-27).