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O virga ac diadema purpurae regis, quae es in clausura tua sicut lorica. Tu frondens floruisti in alia vicissitudine, quam Adam omne genus humanum produceret. Ave, ave, de tuo ventre alia vita processit, quae Adam filios suos denudaverat. O flos tu, non germinasti de rore nec de guttis pluviae nec aer desuper te volavit, sed divina claritas in nobilissima virga te produxit. O virga, floriditatem tuam Deus in prima die creaturae tuae praeviderat. Et te verbo suo auream materiam, o laudabilis virgo, fecit. O quam magnum est in viribus suis latus viri, de quo Deus formam mulieris produxit, quam fecit speculum omnis ornamenti sui et amplexionem omnis creaturae suae. Inde concinunt coelestia organa, et miratur omnis terra, o laudabilis Maria, quia Deus te valde amavit. O quam valde plangendum et lugendum est, quod tristitia in crimine per consilium serpentis in mulierem fluxit. Nam ipsa mulier, quam Deum matrem omnium posuit, viscera sua cum vulneribus ignorantiae decerpsit, et plenum dolorem generi suo protulit. Sed aurora de ventre tuo novus sol processit, qui omnia crimina Evae abstersit et maiorem benedictionem per te protulit, quam Eva hominibus nocuisset. Unde, o Salvatrix, quae novum lumen humano generi protulisti, collige membra filii tui ad coelestem harmoniam.
Composition:
- Set to music by Mathilde Kralik (1857 - 1944), "Hymnus der heiligen Hildegardis" [ soprano, women's chorus, piano ]
Publisher: Certosa Verlag [external link]
Text Authorship:
- by Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179), no title
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2024-10-24
Line count: 32
Word count: 218
O branch and diadem of royal purple, who are in your cloister like armor. Putting forth leaves, you have blossomed in another manner than that in which Adam begat the whole of humankind. Hail, hail, another life has come forth from your womb, than that of which Adam despoiled his own children. O flower, you did not sprout from dew nor from drops of rain nor did the air rush over you, but the divine brilliance produced you on a most noble branch. O branch, your blossoming God foresaw on the first day of your creation, And by his word he made a golden substance, O praiseworthy virgin. O how great in its virtues is the side of man, from which God produced the form of woman, which he made the mirror of all his adornment and the embrace of all his creation. Therefore the celestial instruments sing together, and all the earth marvels, O praiseworthy Mary, for God has loved you greatly. O how greatly it is to be lamented and bewailed, that sadness, by the transgression upon the serpent's counsel, has flowed into woman. For that very woman whom God appointed mother of all tore her womb with the wounds of ignorance and produced sorrow in abundance for her progeny. But, O dawn, from your womb a new sun has appeared, which has cleansed all of Eve's transgressions and through you has offered a blessing greater than Eve's harm to humanity. Wherefore, O Deliverer, who have offered a new light for humankind, gather your son's members into the celestial harmony.
Translations of titles:
"Hymnus der heiligen Hildegardis" = "Saint Hildegard's Hymn"
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- Translation from Latin to English copyright © 2026 by Grant Hicks, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Latin by Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2026-03-11
Line count: 32
Word count: 264