O beata beatorum (Johannes Roullet)

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Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2011-04-06).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 148 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: O beata beatorum
Composer: Johannes Roullet

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STA

Genre: Sacred, Motet, Sequence hymn for a martyr

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Trent Manuscript tr87, c. 1400

Description: Transcribed from the Trent Manuscript tr87

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Original text and translations

Latin text O beata beatorum martyrum sollemnia, O devote recolenda victorum certamina! Digni dignis fulgent signis et florent virtutibus, Illos semper condecenter veneremur laudibus. Fide, voto, corde toto adhæserunt Dómino, Et invicti sunt addicti atroci martyrio. Carcerati, trucidati tormentorum genera Igne læsi, ferro cæsi pertulerunt plurima. Dum sic torti cedunt morti carnis per interitum, Ut electi sunt adepti beatorum perennia. Per contemptum mundanorum et per bella fortia Meruerunt angelorum fieri consortia. Ergo facti cohæredes Christo in cælestibus, Apud ipsum vota nostra promovete precibus. Ut post huius finem vitæ et post transitoria In perenni mereamur exultare gloria.

English translation Blessèd feasts of blessèd martyrs, Saintly days of saintly men, With affection’s recollections Greet we your return again. Mighty deeds they wrought, and wonders, While a frame of flesh they bore; We, with meetest praise and sweetest, Honor them forevermore. Faith unblenching, hope unquenching, Well-loved Lord, and single heart, Thus they, glorious and victorious, Bravely bore the martyr’s part. Blood in slaughter poured like water, Torments long and heavy chain, Flame, and axe, and laceration, They endured, and conquered pain. While they passed through divers tortures, Till they sank by death opprest, Earth’s rejected were elected, To have portion with the blest. By contempt of worldly pleasures, And by mighty battle done; Have they merited with angels, To be knit for ay in one. Wherefore made co-heirs of glory, Ye that sit with Christ on high, Join to ours your supplication As for grace and peace we cry, That, this weary life completed, And its many labors past, We may merit to be seated In our Father’s home at last. John Mason Neale, 1851. 87. 87. D