NS

[**] The Maltese cross is used before their signatures by
certain dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church.
It is also used in the service-books of that church to
notify the reader when to make the sign of the cross.
The ordinary reference mark [dagger] (the dagger) should
not be used as a substitute.

[**] Response in service-books. The apothecaries' sign [**]
is not an entirely acceptable substitute.

[**] Versicle in service-books.

[**] indicates the words intoned by the celebrant.

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