Viri sancti

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Giovanni Bassano SATTBB, ATTTBB or SAATTB
Jacob Handl SAATBB
Domenico Mazzocchi SSATB (adds variant 1)

Texts and Translations

Latin text

Viri sancti gloriosum sanguinem fuderunt pro Domino
amaverunt Christum in vita sua,
imitati sunt eum in morte sua,
et ideo coronas triumphales meruerunt.

Variant 1

Unus spiritus et una fides erat in eis.
Isti sunt qui venerunt ex magna tribulatione
et laverunt stolas suas in sanguine Agni.
Contemnentes aulam regiam pervenerunt ad regna caelestia.

English translation

These holy men gloriously shed their blood for the Lord.
They loved Christ in their lives,
and copied Him in their deaths
And so, they have merited triumphal crowns.

Variant 1

One spirit, and one faith was in them.
These are they which came out of great tribulation,
and have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
Despising earthly power, they came to the kingdom of heaven.