Channel: Adoration of the Cross

Category: Music

Tags: martyrsaintarrowepidemicda pacem dominetemplar chantsebastianmilanplaguecrusaderssalve regina templarsalve reginaensemble organum

Description: Please support for our channel : (you can donate as little as 1$ ): patreon.com/AOTC subscribestar.com/AOTC ---- Special thanks to our patrons on Patreon and SubscribeStar who have made this video possible. ---- Top Patrons: (10 $ or more donation) Patricia Blassingame, Randall Flagg, Lord Funkicus, unter Rhoades, Joseph Blain, George Sherratt, The Salk, Brendon Wade James A Panter, Christophe, Jason Huang, Matthew Stephenson lovecrypt.net , Borna Situm Nagy, Peter Hundy, Ewa Jasniach Rafal Jedrasik, Sancte Michael defende nos, Olga Heinle, Ryan Magoon, Daniel Stodola Rosalie treiber, SPUD, Simeon Mallette, Maciej Durakiewicz, Dominique Blouin. ---- About the chant: Martyrdom & fear of plague in Guillaume Du Fay’s O sancte Sebastiane, history repeats itself, as the saying goes, and now we're facing another plague, the COVID 19 pandemic. About 1423, the epidemic of the plague in Bologna triggered extreme panic along the Adriatic coast of Italy. Guillaume Du Fay, now commonly regarded as the greatest European composer of the fifteenth century, wrote an isorhythmic motet asking for divine aid against this plague. Du Fay merged two pre-existing Latin prayers to Saint Sebastian for his motet's text. Du Fay's motet is expressing fear of the plague. Sebastian was an underground Christian and a high-ranking officer under Roman emperor Diocletian, who ruled from 284 to 305 GC. Sebastian cured the sick and called for conversion to Christianity. For these violations, Diocletian commanded the archers to kill Sebastian. ---- This polyphony was performed Huelgas-Ensemble / Artistic Director Paul Van Nevel (C) master copyright is owned by Harmonia Mundi S. A. #HuelgasEnsemble ---- Latin text : O sancte Sebastiane, Semper, vespere et mane, Horis cunctis et momentis Dum adhuc sum sanae mentis Me protege et conserva Et a me, martyr, enerva Infirmitatem noxiam Vocatem epidemiam. Tu de peste hujusmodi Me defende et custodi Et omnes amicos meos, Qui nos confitemur reos Deo et sanctae Mariae Et tibi, o martyr pie. Tu Mediolanus civis Hanc pestilentiam, si vis Potes facere cessare Et ad Deum impetrare Quia a multis est scitum, Quod de hoc habes meritum. Zoe mutam tu sanasti Et sanatam restaurasti Nicostrato ejus viro, Hoc faciens modo miro. In agone consolabas Martyres et promittebas Eis sempiternam vitam Et martyribus debitam