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by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Translation © by Marianne Zanettin

O magnum mysterium

Language: Latin

Our translations: DUT DUT ENG ENG FIN FRE GER ITA

O magnum mysterium
et admirabile sacramentum
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum
jacentem in praesepio.¹
[Beata]² Virgo cujus viscera 
meruerunt portare Dominum Christum. ³

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Handl • T. de Victoria • J. Wallach

J. Wallach sets lines 1-4
J. Handl sets lines 1-4

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¹ Handl adds "Noe."
² Victoria: "O beata"
³ Victoria adds "Alleluja"

Text Authorship:

by Bible or other Sacred Texts , "O magnum mysterium", from the Latin Liturgy [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Jacobus Handl (1550 - 1591), "O magnum mysterium", lines 1-4 [ chorus a cappella ], motet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "O magnum mysterium", FP. 152 no. 1 (1952), published 1952 [ chorus a cappella ], from Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël, no. 1, Paris, Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 - 1611), "O magnum mysterium", 1572 [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Joelle Wallach (b. 1946), "O magnum mysterium", lines 1-4, from Three Short Sacred Anthems, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "O groot mysterie", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Ton Rooijmans) , "O, groot mysterie", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Joelle Wallach) , "O great mystery", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "O great mystery", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Marianne Zanettin) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "O großes Mysterium", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "O grande mistero", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 25

Ô grand mystère

Language: French (Français) after the Latin

Ô grand mystère
Et admirable sacrement
Que les animaux voient le Seigneur nouveau-né
Couché dans une mangeoire !
Béni soit la Vierge dont le ventre
Fut digne de porter Le Christ notre Seigneur.

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a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , "O magnum mysterium", from the Latin Liturgy
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This text was added to the website: 2012-07-31
Line count: 6
Word count: 32