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Folio 26r
Commemorations of the saints, continued.
Saint Catherine.
Hymn, Gaude virgo Katherina.
A hymn commemorating St Catherine (AH, 29, p 110). She corrected the
errors of learned men; her prison cell was filled with light and fragrance; she
converted the queen [of the Emperor Maxentius]; the wheel on which she was
broken, coming loose, injured bystanders; when she was scourged and beheaded,
milk instead of blood flowed from her neck; from her body, which was carried to
Sinai, flows a healing oil (GL, pp 708-16).
Gaude virgo Katherina
qua docto\res lex divina
traxit ab erroribus.\
Gaude pro qua tenebrosus\
carcer fuit luminosus
fragrans\ ex ordoribus.
Gaude convertens\ reginam
cernens roteque <rotarum> ruinam
plebs [plebis] in discrimine.\
Gaude tu que flagellaris
et post preces decolla\ris
fundens lac pro sanguine.
Gaude Syna que\ portaris
ubi iuge veneraris
olei propagine.
O bea\ta post Mariam
posce nobis celi viam
in supremo\ culmine.
Nec cum tibi presentamus
fac ut tecum gau\
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