Jean-Franҫois Millet (French, 1814–1875),  The Angelus , 1857–59   The Angelus  is a traditional Christian prayer whose name comes from its opening words in Latin, “Angelus Domini” (The angel of the Lord). For centuries it was prayed by the faithful three times a day—at 6 a.m., noon, and 6 p.m.—the times announced by the ringing of bells from church towers. In the 19th-century, Millet famously painted two peasant farmers at dusk pausing from their labor in the fields to bow t