Help! need lyrics translation
  • Stella611
    Posts: 112
    Can anyone help me with translating the lyrics of this anonymous Marian hymn? Normally can find English translations easily with google's help, or on cpdl, but no luck with this one!

    O Maria, Virgo Pia

    1. O Maria, Virgo pia,
    Mater admirabilis;
    Per te Deus, judex meus,
    Mihi sit placabilis.
    2. Commendare me dignare,
    Christo, tuo Filio;
    Ut non cadam, sed evadam
    De mundi naufragio.
    3. Pro me pete, ut quiete,
    Sempiterna perfruar;
    Ne tormentis comburentis
    Stagni miser obruar.
    4. Esto tutrix et adjutrix
    Christiani populi;
    Pacem praesta, ne molesta
    Nos perturbent saeculi.
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,478
    The booklet with this recording contains a translation, if anyone has access to it.
    The Lily and the Lamb
    Harmonia Mundi ‎– HMU 907125
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,220
    Well, this comes to mind:
    ¡Oh María! ¡Madre mía!
    ¡Oh consuelo del mortal!
    Amparadme y llevadme
    a la patria celestial
    Thanked by 1eft94530
  • ronkrisman
    Posts: 1,396
    Proof positive that Latin is not immune to doggerel verse.
    Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn Andrew_Malton
  • Ambrosius
    Posts: 49
    Stella611
    Did you find a translation? If not I could do one for you.
  • CharlesSA
    Posts: 165
    O Mary, holy virgin,
    Wonderful mother;
    Through thee may God, my judge,
    Be forgiving to me.

    Deign to commend me
    To Christ, thy Son;
    That I might not fall, but rather escape
    From the wreckage of the world.

    Beg (him) for me, that in rest,
    I may enjoy the things of eternity;
    Lest unhappily, I be destroyed
    In the lake of burning torments.

    Be thou the protector and helper
    Of the Christian people;
    Grant peace, lest the troubles
    Of the world greatly disturb us.

    OK, yes, that is my own translation, with a few consultations of a Latin dictionary. Mostly literal translation, aside from a couple little things. I hope you can find an actual one...haha.
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