six o'clock
* For the information of Protestant and other non-Catholic readers it may be mentioned that all the titles enumerated in this passage are taken from the Litany of the Blessed Virgin . -- Trans . But the train was still rolling , rolling onward . They had just passed Contras , it was six o'clock , and Sister Hyacinthe , rising to her , feet , clapped her hands together and once again repeated : `` The Angelus , my children ! '' Never had `` Aves '' impregnated with greater faith , inflamed with a more fervent desire to be heard by Heaven , winged their flight on high . And Pierre suddenly understood everything , clearly realised the meaning of all these pilgrimages , of all these trains rolling along through every country of the civilised world , of all these eager crowds , hastening towards Lourdes , which blazed over yonder like the abode of salvation for body and for mind . Ah !