There's also a Sequence for St. Philomena:

Imbelli virgini,
Ut vincat fortior,
In pugna Domini
Omnium regnator,
Dat sapientiam.

Hanc quot erroribus
Lusit, ut caperet:
hanc quot terroribus
Egit, ut perderet,
Mundi prudentia!

Non est prudentia
Adversus Dominum:
Quam impotentia
Arma sunt hominum
Cum Deus dimicat.

O coeli lumine
Dignum spectaculum!
In casta virgine,
Confusum seculum
Vim christi praedica.

Non illa praelio
Inermis sistitur;
Dei praesidio
Tuta congreditur
Cum mundi principe.

Dum malas objicit
Mundus blanditias:
Te, Christe, suspicit
Suas delicias:
Tu sponsam suscipe.

Quae dulci vinculo
Christo conjungitur,
Sponsi patibulo
Amans configitur
Nec sentit vulnera.

Quid moras nectitis
Leuti crudelius?
Ictus suspenditis,
Ut mens funestius,
Perdatur misera.

Humae astutiae
Intacta fabulis,
Dei scientiae
Innixa regulis
Fides non fallitur.

Haec est victoria
Quae vincit aemulum,
Haec sapientia
Qua prudens seculum.
Stultum convincitur.

Ut tibi placita
Pars nostra Domine,
Eamus semita:
Orante virgine,
Da sapientiam.

Quod transit spernere:
Flere quod fecimus,
Quod manet, quaerere,
Hanc discat animus
Veram prudentiam. Amen.

I was trying to translate the hymn literally, but I stopped because the Latin is very difficult. The last time I encountered this difficulty was when I was translating an Office hymn written in Mozarabic Latin. I'll continue later.

This is what I came up.

ASTRA QUÆ TERRAM
Meter: Sapphic adonic

1. O Philumena, who, trembling at the earth soaked by thy own blood, climbest the heavens, if there thou thyself our mercy be, shew thy favour upon these votive promises of the beseeching ones.
Construction: Philumena, quae, exhorrens terram madentem sanguine proprio, scandis astra, si qua te pietas nostri, annue votis precantum.

2. While the votive altar heaped with a hundred gifts to thee becometh warm again with embers, virgins and children in a circle applaud with a gladsome strain.
Construction: Dum ara votiva cumulata centum donis tibi recalet favilla, virgines puerique circum plaudunt carmine laeto.

3. Neither the madness of the current tyrant overthroweth thee, who art with unalloyed courage, nor mayeth force the fetters on thy blameless neck that thou mayest renounce Christ.
Construction: Nec rabies tyranni instantis dejecit te mente solida, sive minetur vincula collo immerenti, ni Christo renuas.

4. Or to leaden whips she who shall be wounded might expose her back, or surrender over the goal in the middle of the circus, her chaste bosom to an arrow that can be fired.
Construction: Sive laceranda plumbatis loris nuda[ve]rit terga, [sive] metam, casta pectora, dederit medio circo missili sagittae.

5. Just as thou wert cast unto the raging sea, strength not at all inferior to thee, O Philumena, and courage that knoweth not to be bent, endureth the madness of the waves, breaking open the reef.
Construction: Velut icta ponto insano, Philumena, vis haud impar tibi mensque nescia flecti, perstat rabiem fluctuum, refringens cautes.

6. Thou uncouthly exposeth thy neck to the two-edged axe, professing to heaven Him Who Alone Thundereth (the One True God); looking down at Hell, thy Spouse accompanying, thou climbest unto the stars.
Construction: Barbare subjici collum bipenni, profitens caelo unicum tonantem; despectans ima, comitante sponso, scandis sidera.
7. Here thou shalt delight, echoing out the threefold praise unto the Father, and unto the Begotten One, and unto the Spirit; protect these subject lands with gentle light.


IMBELLI VIRGINI
Meter: Iambic trimeter (?)

1. Unto the unwarring virgin,
that stronger she mayeth triumph,
in the battle of the Lord,
the Ruler of all,
giveth wisdom.
Construction: The Ruler of all giveth wisdom unto the unwarring virgin that, stronger, she mayeth triumph in the battle of the Lord.

2. Her with such errors,
it mocked, that it might seize her:
her with such terrors,
it treated, that it might destroy her,
the prudence of the world!
Construction: The prudence of the world mocked her with such errors in order to seize her; it treated her with such terrors in order to destroy her!

3. It is not prudence
in the presence of the Lord:
what powerlessness
are the weapons of man
when God fighteth.
Construction: It is not prudence in the presence of the Lord [or, the prudence of the world is useless in the presence of the Lord]: [how powerless are the weapons of man] when God fighteth.

4. O with the light of heaven
O worthy spectacle!
with the chaste virgin
unto the perplexed world,
the power of Christ preach thou.
Construction: O worthy spectacle with heavenly light, preach thou the power of Christ, through the chaste virgin, unto the perplexed world!

5. She, not in battle,
is caused to stand unarmed;
with the protection of God,
protected she approacheth
with the Prince of the world.
Construction: She is not placed unarmed in battle but approacheth it protected by the protection [or defended by the army] of God, with the Prince of the world.

6. While the world casteth out
wicked enticements:
Thee, O Christ, it admireth,
its pleasure:
Receive thou thy spouse.
Construction: While the world casteth out wicked enticements, it admireth Thee, O Christ, as its pleasure [Christ as the delight of the world]; receive thou thy spouse [wife].

7. She by a sweet bond
unto Christ is joined,
Unto the gibbet of her Spouse,
as a loving wife, she is nailed
and did not see wounds.
Construction: She is joined with Christ by a sweet bond; loving, she is nailed [together with Him] to the gibbet of her Spouse, and did not perceive wounds [or injuries].

8. Why do you bind obstacles
more mercilessly provided with lionesses?
you suspend blows,
that unfortunate courage
may be more calamitously destroyed.
Construction: Why do you bind obstacles more mercilessly provided with lionesses? You suspend blows that unfortunate courage may be more calamitously destroyed.

9. Of worldly trickery
untouched by the rubbish,
of the wisdom of God
supported by the principles,
faith doth not err.
Construction: Faith, untouched by the rubbish of worldly trickery, strengthened by the principles of the wisdom of God, doth not fail [or err].

10. This is the victory
which conquereth the enemy,
this is the wisdom,
by which the prudent exposeth
the foolishness of the ages.
Construction: This is the victory which conquereth the enemy; this is the wisdom by which the prudent exposeth the foolishness of the ages.

11. That unto Thee, O Lord,
our duty may be pleasing,
may we walk the path:
with the virgin praying,
grant us wisdom.
Construction: May we walk the path that our duty may be pleasing unto Thee, O Lord, and grant is wisdom through the intercession of the virgin.

12. To despise that which passeth:
to weep for what we have done,
to beseech that it mayeth abide,
that our spirit may learn
this true prudence. Amen.
Construction: [continued from above: WISDOM] to despise that which passeth, to weep for what we have done, to beseech that our spirit mayeth abide and learn this true prudence. Amen.

CAUTION: I am not a Latinist by education. Somewhere in these translation, there might be a misplaced absolute ablative or a postpositive. The first hymn uses too much hyperbaton that I have to give up putting the words into meter.

I asked a parent who has kids in St. Philomena homeschool co-op in MD. They liked to learn the hymn. Where can I find the music?


Here's a quick slapdash rendering:


What stars, Philumena, you scale, trembling
At the earth wet with your own blood,
If you love us, who pray to you
Favor our prayers;


While the altar's still warm with votive embers,
Heaped with a hundred gifts to you,
Maids about, and lads, with happy
Song applaud you.


Nor did the madness of the persecuting tyrant
Cast you down from your steadfast mind,
Whether he threaten you, innocent, unless you renounce Christ,
With chains for your neck,


Or strip your back, to be scored with
Leaden flails, or in the midst of a circle give
Your chaste breast to serve as
A target for the arrow.


Your not unequal strength, Philumena, persists
As a cliff that breaks the madness of the waves,
The blows of a raging sea, and your mind
That knows no bending.


Professing the one who thunders from heaven
You lay your neck under the barbarian axe
Despising things lowest, you scale the stars,
Your bridegroom accompanying.


Here be blessed, and sing back praise threefold
To the Father, and the Begotten and the nourishing Spirit;
Watch thou over these lands below
With placid eye.


(the last line can mean both, "with placid/peaceful eye" and "from the placid/peaceful (place of) light")


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I didn't take the time to find out where this poem comes from, but its metrical form, Sapphic Stanza, is ancient and in the best classical form, and it's vocabulary and diction, except for the first stanza, which I can't quite understand perfectly, measure up to good classical Latin. I would guess it was probably written in the Renaissance, when the likes of Jacob Balde were writing in the old Horatian lyric forms.

Here's a quick copy of the music.

Thank you, Veromary for bumping this old thread.

I wish I had remembered that these existed. I could have suggested at least one of these for the veneration of her first class relic this evening.
I'll point my choir director here, for future reference.