History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.

Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople (784), was the chief mover in the restoration of Icons and the second Council of Nicaea (7 ...

And all that is therein: In grateful exultation Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord hath risen, Our joy that h ...

Jesu, clad in purple raiment, For my evils making payment; Let not all thy woe and pain, Let not Calvary be in vain! When I reac ...

§ 95. Latin Hymnody. Literature. See vol. III. 585 sqq. The following list covers the whole mediaeval period of Latin hymnody. I ...

Ans. Schubiger: Die Sängerschule St. Gallens vom 8ten bis 12ten Jahrh. Einsiedeln 1858. Gives sixty texts with the old music and ...

Ad. Ebert: Allgem. Gesch. der Lit. des Mittelalters im Abendlande, vol. I. (Leipz. 1874), the third book (p. 516 sqq.), and vol. ...

Hamilton M. Macgill, D. D. (of the United Presb. Ch. of Scotland): Songs of the Christian Creed and Life selected from Eighteen ...

regia Dei. Even the Te Deum was adapted to her by the distinguished St. Bonaventura so as to read "Te Matrem laudamus, Te Virgin ...

Both have a place in the Roman Breviary.^473 Gregory I. (d. 604), though far inferior to Fortunatus in poetic genius, occupies a ...

Carolingian age, and the first German who wrote Latin hymns. Some of them have passed into the Breviary.^477 He is probably the ...

Mentes tuorum visita. Imple superna gratia Quo tu creasti pectora. Creator, Spirit, Lord of Grace, O make our hearts Thy dwellin ...

Te utriusque Spiritum, Credamus omni tempore. Spirit of Faith, on us bestow The Father and the Son to know; And, of the Twain, t ...

And thus confess the Son; For Thee, from both the Holy Ghost, We praise while time shall run. In this connection we mention the ...

Reple cordis intima, Tuorum fidelium. O Thou Light, all pure and blest! Fill with joy this weary breast, Turning darkness into d ...

Come, O Father of the poor; Come, O Source of bounties sure; Come, O Sunshine of the heart! O! thrice blessed light divine! Come ...

for chanting. The name sequence was then applied to the text and in a wider sense also to regular metrical and rhymed hymns. The ...

Peter Damiani (d. 1072), a friend of Hildebrand and promoter of his hierarchical refrms, wrote a solemn hymn on the day of death ...

"Sancti venite." A communion hymn. "Urbs beata Jerusalem."^500 It is from the eighth century, and one of those touching New Jeru ...

And the stars shall fall from heaven, Whelm’d beneath destruction’s flood. Flame and fire, and desolation At the Judge’s feet sh ...

All our ills expelling, Every bliss implore. Monstra te esse matrem,^505 Sumat per te precem, Qui pro nobis natus Tulit esse tuu ...