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Crux ave benedicta

Crux ave benedicta

Published in 3 hymnals


Text Information

First Line: Crux ave benedicta
Language: Latin
Notes: English translation: "Hail rood of Christ, love's token" by Henry Meyer
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Crux, ave benedicta. [Holy Cross Day.] Probably of the 17th century. It is in the Symphonia Sirenum, Cologne, 3695 (edition 1707, p. 196), the Psalteriolum Cant. Cath., 1710, p. 277, Daniel, ii., p. 349, Trench, edition 1864, p. 302, &c. Translated as "Hail be thou! blessed Cross," by G. K. Woodward in his Songs of Syon, 1904. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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