Lapidabant Stephanum

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General information

Motet for the feast of St. Stephen. Source of text is Acts 7:58-59 (Vulgate).

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Text and translations

Latin text

58 Lapidabant[Lapidaverunt] Stephanum invocantem et dicentem: Domine Jesu Christe, suscipe[accipe] spiritum meum.
59 Positis autem genibus clamavit voce magna dicens: et ne statuas illis hoc peccatum. Et cum hoc dixisset, obdormivit in Domino.

English translation

59 And they stoned Stephen who, calling upon God and saying: Lord Jesus Christ, receive my spirit.
60 And he knelt down, and cried with a loud voice, saying: do not lay this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he slept in the Lord.