Canticle triumphant

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The Canticum triumphale ( Latin : triumphal song ), also named after its initial words Cum rex gloriae , is an antiphon that was part of the Easter liturgy and was sung during the procession .

text

Cum rex gloriae Christ infernum debellaturus intraret
et chorus angelicus ante faciem ejus portas principum tolli praeciperet,
sanctorum populus qui tenebatur in morte captivus voce lacrimabili clamaverat:

Advenisti desiderabilis quem expectabamus in tenebris,
ut educeres hac nocte vinculatos de claustris:
Te nostra vocabant suspiria, te larga requirebant lamenta,
tu factus es spes desperatis, magna consolatio in tormentis.
Alleluia.

translation

When Christ, the King of Honor, entered the underworld to fight it down,
and the choir of angels commanded the princes to open the gates of the princes before his face
, the people of saints, who were held captive in death, cried out with tears moving :

You have come, longed-for one, for whom we waited in the darkness,
so that you would lead us, who are bound, out of the dungeon that night:
our sighs always shouted you, our rich laments beg you,
you became the hope of the desperate , a great comfort in agony.
Alleluia.

Presumably the text goes back to a sermon that was traditionally attributed to Augustine of Hippo , but presumably comes from Jerome . The text is particularly important because it belongs to the standard repertoire of medieval Easter games and is often quoted in Easter depictions, for example in the Biblia Pauperum .

The antiphon describes how the multitudes of saints who were imprisoned in death , with tears of joy at the arrival of Jesus in the kingdom of death, chant a chant and welcome him as their Savior.

literature

  • Marc-Oliver Loerke: Christ's Descent into Hell and Anastasis: an image motif in the West and in the Christian East. Regensburg, Univ., Diss., 2003 ( digitized version )
  • Dolores Ozimic: The pseudo- Augustinian Sermo CLX: Hieronymus as his presumed author, his dogma-historical classification and his meaning for the Easter canticum triumphant "Cum rex gloriae" . Graz: dbv-Verlag der Technische Universität Graz 1979 (dissertations of the University of Graz; 47), zugl. Graz, Univ., Diss., 1979 ISBN 3-7041-9007-1
  • Barbara Thoran: Studies on the Easter games of the German Middle Ages: (e. Contribution to the clarification of their interdependence). 2., through u. supplementary edition d. 1969 in private dr. published Bochum Diss., Göppingen: Kümmerle 1976 (Göppinger papers on German studies; No. 199), zugl .: Bochum, Univ., Dept. for Philology, Diss., 1969 ISBN 3-87452-337-3