O crux benedicta
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General information
Settings by composers
- Ambrosian chant (adds Gloria Patri)
- Carlo Gesualdo SATTB (replaces alleluia with variant 1)
- Claudio Merulo SATTB
Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above
- Giulio Belli — O crux benedicta!
- Scipione Dentice — O crux beata
- Claudio Monteverdi — O crux benedicta
Text and translations
 Latin textO crux benedicta! Quae sola fuisti digna, portare Regem coelorum, et Dominum, alleluia.
defende nos omni malo. |
 English translationO Blessed Cross, which only was worthy to bear the Lord and King of heaven, alleluia.
defend us from all evil. |