Viri sancti

Notes on selected settings

• Domenico Mazzocchi SSATB (adds variant 1)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Giovanni Bassano — Viri sancti gloriosum a 6  Latin SATTBB, ATTTBB, SAATTB
• Jacob Handl — Viri sancti  Latin SAATBB
• Domenico Mazzocchi — Viri sancti  Latin SSATB

Texts and Translations

Latin text Viri sancti gloriosum sanguinem fuderunt pro Domino amaverunt Christum in vita sua, imitati sunt eum in morte sua, et ideo coronas triumphales meruerunt. Variant 1 Unus spiritus et una fides erat in eis. Isti sunt qui venerunt ex magna tribulatione et laverunt stolas suas in sanguine Agni. Contemnentes aulam regiam pervenerunt ad regna caelestia.

English translation These holy men gloriously shed their blood for the Lord. They loved Christ in their lives, and copied Him in their deaths And so, they have merited triumphal crowns. Variant 1 One spirit, and one faith was in them. These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb. Despising earthly power, they came to the kingdom of heaven.