(Hiberno-Scottish) monastic tradition, a lorica is a prayer recited for protection. It is essentially a 'protection prayer' in which the petitioner invokes all...

Santa Cruz de Lorica, a municipality and town in the Córdoba Department, Colombia Lorica (material), a type of artificial leather Lorica (prayer), a protective...

Breastplate" is an Old Irish prayer of protection of the "lorica" type (hence "Lorica Sancti Patricii", or "The Lorica of Saint Patrick") attributed...

Kotodama, the Japanese belief in the power of words and names Lorica, Irish protective prayer Mantra, a sacred sound, word, or phrase, often repeated multiple...

Cry is a sacred motet by Arvo Pärt, set to text from a traditional Irish lorica for a four-part choir a cappella. He composed the piece on a commission...

Old Irish. Among the Latin prayers, the longest is a redaction of the Lorica of Laidcenn (formerly often known as the Lorica of Gildas). This seventh-century...

including New Testament Gospel excerpts, a selection of prayers and hymns with a version of the Lorica of Laidcenn, an abbreviated or Breviate Psalter, and...

The Roman army adopted the technology for their troops in the form of the lorica hamata which was used as a primary form of armour through the Imperial period...

Litany, in Christian worship and some forms of Jewish worship, is a form of prayer used in services and processions, and consisting of a number of petitions...

life in Early Christian Ireland (c.400-800 AD). The prayer belongs to a type known as a lorica, a prayer for protection. The symbolic use of a battle-shield...