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Commemorations of the saints, continued.

Saint John the Baptist, continued.

Hymn, Sancte Iohannes baptista electe, continued.



The author asks that he may not suffer the darkness of hell but attain to the company of the elect.


Burnet Psalt
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sibiles et invisibiles et defende me ut in hora ex\itus mei horrendas non paciar tenebras infern\i sed merear pertingere ad consorcium electorum dei. Pres\tante illo cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.


St John the Evangelist.

Hymn, Gaude pater via.


A hymn commemorating St John the Evangelist (AH, 29, p 107). He is the father of the evangelists, a shining star, a virgin, to whom Christ committed his mother.


Gaude pater via morum
felix evvan\geliorum
sydus fulgens radio.\

Gaude quia voce Christi
vir\go florens permansisti
tractus\ de connubio.

Gaude quia\ plenioris
secretorum et amoris
splendens [splendes] privilegio\

Gaude florem virginalem
tibi matrem specialem,\



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