The plain-song melody in the 6th tone has also a simpler setting.

Schlosser gives a translation into German in the same metre. The version in the Marquess of Bute's 'Breviary' (Edinburgh, 1879, I, 177) begins: 'Hail, O Maris Queen of Heaven'. The Ave Regina has been translated by Caswall, 'Lyra Catholica' (London, 1849, 1873, 1884 New York, 1851), whose version is used in the 'Manual of Prayers' (Baltimore), 77: 'Hail, O Queen of Heaven enthroned' also by Beste, 'Church Hymns' (1849): 'Hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven'. In a manuscript of the fifteenth century (loc. Dreves and Blume, Analecta Hymnica, I, 94 X, 103 XXX, 238 XXXII, 43 XLVI, 136) which, however, had no other relation with the antiphon, being sometimes meditations on the Ave Maria, sometimes distinct poetical compositions, for example: Ave regina caelorumĪnd so on, throughout the whole of the Angelical Salutation down to ventris tui, where the poem ends ( manuscript of fourteenth century) (loc. Its opening line was sometimes quoted as the first line of hymns and sequences in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (cf. Said during Septuagesima, Lent, Passiontide, the time, namely, of preparation for Easter, it recalls the part Mary had in the drama of the reopening of Heaven to men and shows her as reigning there Queen of Angels. He gives a commentary and thinks he can perceive in it elements of the 'noble accents. Bernard says it was introduced into the Divine Office by Clement VI in the fourteenth century. Alban's Book of the twelfth century in a Munich manuscript thought by Daniel to be of the thirteenth: in a Sarum Breviary of the fourteenth and in York and Roman Breviaries of the fifteenth. Liturg., Rome, 1895) that it antedates the fourth century seems to be without any warrant of external or internal evidence. Its date of composition is uncertain, but the conjecture of Stella (Inst. It comprises two stanzas of four lines each, followed by its own versicle and response and prayer. It is one of the four Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin sung in the Divine Office in turn throughout the year, and is assigned thus from Compline of 2 February (even when the Feast of the Purification is transferred) to Holy Thursday exclusively. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.Īn antiphon so called from its first line, Ave regina caelorum (Hail, Queen of Heaven).

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