Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2022-03-12) CPDL #68359:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-03-12). Score information: A4, 1 page, 37 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words underlaid.
- (Posted 2022-03-12) CPDL #68358:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-03-12). Score information: A4, 1 page, 156 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Holy Manna
Lyricist:
- Translation by John Mason Neale
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 87. 87. D
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1835
Description: Words translated from 12th-century Latin; melody from The Southern Harmony
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Original text and translations
English text
Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs,
holy women, holy men,
with affection’s recollections
greet we your return again.
Worthy deeds they wrought, and wonders,
worthy of the Name they bore;
we, with meetest praise and sweetest,
honor them for evermore.
Faith prevailing, hope unfailing,
loving Christ with single heart,
thus they, glorious and victorious,
bravely bore the martyr’s part,
by contempt of every anguish,
by unyielding battle done;
victors at the last, they triumph,
with the host of angels one.
Therefore, ye that reign in glory,
fellow-heirs with Christ on high,
join to ours your supplication
when before him we draw nigh,
praying that, this life completed,
all its fleeting moments past,
by his grace we may be worthy
of eternal bliss at last.