Icelandic Sagas Vol. 3
HORAE
IN FESTO TRANSLATIONIS SANCTI MAGNI.
Memoria (1) de translatione Sancti Magni martyris et cum hac oratione. Oratio.
Sancti Magni martyris tui translationem venerantes te Domine suppliciter, deprecamur, dum tuo in honore solennia ejus colimus, praesens ipsius aeternum capiamus adjutorium pariter et futurum. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum.
Antiphona.
Dulce melos in hoc solennio,
Summi Regis contemus Filio,
Hostem vicit cujus suffragio
Martyr Magnus victor sub gladio.
Cujus nobis sit sacra translatio
Contra hostes perpes tuitio.
The Responses to the nine lections at matins form the following hymn, as is pointed out in the Acta Sanct.
Nova mundus resultet gloria
Sancti Magni plaudens victoria.
Qua coelestis exultat curia.
Mali bonos solent pervertere,
Quibus victus primevo tempore
Praedis Magnus coepit insistere.
Magnus praedo mutatur penitus,
De raptore fit pater inclitus,
Agnus redit ad caulam perditus.
Preter carnem in carne vivere,
Studet Magnus divino munere,
Miro poene se domans genere.
Haco Magni terras et praedia
Sibi subdens invasit omnia,
Contra mitem furit insania.
Cessit Magnus furentis odio,
Rex Anglorum quem sumptu regio
Suo digne fovet palatio.
Novi inde regnat perfidia,
Alter Abel fratris invidia
Ruit, victor regnat in gloria.
Plangens ista plaudit Orcadia.
Hostes movet Magni collegium
Propulsare et scelus nefarium,
Sanctus retorquens ferre taedium,
Mavult gratis pati martyrium.
Jesu pie, nos Magni precibus,
Noxae reos absolve nexibus,
Condemnati carnis operibus,
Ne privemur supernis sedibus.
The antiphone form another hymn as follows.
Magnus ex prosapia magna procreatus,
Actum vita moribus major est probatus.
Praedis vacans primitus pravorum instinctu
Ut Paulus convertitur in viae procinctu.
Saulus ecce Paulus fit, praedo fit patronus,
Persecutor factus est plebis pastor bonus.
Vir sanctus in comitem digne sublimatus
Carnem per continuos domat cruciatus.
Justus, pius, humilis, et modestus
Iste suis praefuit exemplis honestus.
Magnus inter caeteros gratia divina
Plenus fulget velut stella matutina.
Vir Sanctus ad propria reversus componit
Cum Hacone perfido, qui fraudem disponit,
Expetit ecclesiam, qua fraude comperta
Ut pararet hostiam se Christo spe certa.
Hostes turbat Comitis mora salutaris,
Hostia dum refici expectat altaris;
Sanctum trahunt, rapiunt, templum irrumpentes,
Sacro plenum pabulo extrahunt amentes.
Haconis presentiae Magnus presentatur,
Sitit agni sanguine lupus fore satur,
Protulit sententiam ut morti tradatur,
Et lictori traditur ut hanc exequatur.
Favus, stillans frangitur mellis dans dulcorem
Mala quaeque fugiunt cujus per odorem.
Surdi, muti, precibus Magni reparantur,
Claudis data sanitas, leprosi mundantur.
Ferro vincti martyris ope relaxantur,
Naufragantes nexibus mortis liberantur.
Fit moestis laetitia, aegris medicina,
Spes firma periculis, salus in ruina.
- "Memoria." Ex Brev. Aberd. Pars hiem., in propr. Sanct., fol.
17, v. Die decima sexta Decembris.
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