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Continued use of the expression "people of God" (in [[Latin]], ''populus Dei'') in the writings of the [[Church Fathers]] are found in [[Augustine]]'s ''[[De civitate Dei]]''<ref>[https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120119.htm''De civitate Dei'' 19:26]</ref> and [[Pope Leo I|Pope Leo I's]] Lenten Sermon.<ref>[http://www.frcoulter.com/leo/latin/tractatus50.html Lenten Sermon 50:2]</ref> Its use continued up to and including [[Pope John XXIII]]'s [[Ecclesiastical letter#Letters_of_the_popes_in_modern_times|apostolic letter]] ''Singulari studio''<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/apost_letters/1960/documents/hf_j-xxiii_apl_19600701_singulari-studio_lt.html ''Singulari studio'']</ref> of 1 July 1960, two years before the [[Second Vatican Council]].

In [[Goidelic languages|Gaelic]], Latin ''populus Dei'' became ''pobal Dé'' and has continued for centuries to be an expression in everyday use for the [[Christian Church|Church]] in a [[parish]], a [[diocese]] or the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.corkandross.org/documents/DPS_01.pdf |title=Parish as ''Pobal Dé'' |access-date=11 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117024937/http://www.corkandross.org/documents/DPS_01.pdf |archive-date=17 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>A poem in an eighteenth-century [http://www.isos.dias.ie/resources/image.html manuscript] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010120100/http://www.isos.dias.ie/resources/image.html |date=10 October 2006 }} begins with ''Is fairsing dealbh pobal Dé'' ("Extensive is the aspect of the people of God").</ref>

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