Origins of this text?
  • athome
    Posts: 31
    Hello,
    I was wondering if someone out there might offer a bit of help. A friend has asked me to help find the original liturgical origins of this text:

    Est haec virga Dei mater flos ortus ab illa miro plenus odore. Alleluia

    Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
  • Richard R.
    Posts: 776
    According to the CANTUS database [http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/], in some chant manuscripts, the text is used as a Responsory verse in either Matins or Vespers for the feast of St. Anne, Mother of Mary (June 26). I don't find it in the modern books. I suspect the Office texts were altered when the Feast became Ss. Joachim and Anne.
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