It is one of the largest collections of monophonic ( solo ) songs from the Middle Ages and is characterized by the mention of the Virgin Mary in every song, while every tenth song is a hymn.

An extract from a hymn dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

By the promulgation of today's constitution, which has as its crown and summit a whole chapter dedicated to our Lady, we can rightly affirm that the present session ends as an incomparable hymn of praise in honor of Mary.

Lingard also authored the very popular Catholic hymn to the Virgin Mary titled Hail Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star.

They include Bogurodzica ( Mother of God ), a hymn in praise of the Virgin Mary written down in the 15th century though popular at least a century earlier.

Quietly entering the church, he walked to the Baker pew and stood beside Mary during the hymn singing, after which he yielded without resistance into legal custody.

Of them Gerard Moultrie and Mary Moultrie were also known as hymn ­ writers.

The Magnificat, in, is spoken by Mary and is one of the 8 most ancient Christian hymns and perhaps the earliest Marian hymn.

Saint Romanus the Melodist had a dream of the Virgin Mary the night before the feast of the Nativity, and when he woke up the next morning, composed his first hymn " On the Nativity " and continued composing hymns ( perhaps several hundred ) to the end of his life.

In October 2003 BBC1's Songs Of Praise was hosted by the parish church of St Mary the Virgin and featured the new hymn tune Godmanchester written by the Vicar, Peter Moger.

Of two hymns, Stabat Mater Dolorosa ( about the Sorrows of Mary ) and Stabat Mater Speciosa ( joyfully referring to the Nativity of Jesus ), Stabat Mater usually refers to the first, a 13th-century Catholic hymn to Mary, variously attributed to the Franciscan Jacopone da Todi and to Innocent III.

The Dolorosa hymn, one of the most powerful and immediate of extant medieval poems, meditates on the suffering of Mary, Jesus Christ's mother, during his crucifixion.

At bedtime, Mr. Kemp sings a hymn as his wife ( Mary MacLeod ) accompanies him on the recorder ; the matron ( Mona Washbourne ), overhearing, is driven to near orgasm.

Ave Maris Stella ( Latin, " Hail Star of the Sea ") is a plainsong Vespers hymn to Mary.

Similarly the Western Roman Catholic Church greets what it sees as really in the Eucharist with the words of a Latin hymn of which a literal translation is: " Hail, true body, born of Mary Virgin, and which truly suffered and was immolated on the cross for mankind!

Compère also wrote several settings of the Magnificat ( the hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary, from the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke ), as well as numerous short motets.

In the introduction to the 1992 edition, Halberstam states that he had used the title in an article for Harper's Magazine, and that Mary McCarthy criticized him in a book review for incorrectly referencing the line in the Shelley hymn.

Bogurodzica is a prayer hymn whose first stanza contains an invocation to Christ through the intercession of Mary.

A Christian hymn to Mary, similar to the canticles of Luke, and some Christian letters have also been found.

He teaches himself the first verse of the popular Medieval hymn ' Alma Redemptoris Mater ' (" Nurturing Mother of the Redeemer "); though he does not understand the words, an older classmate tells him it is about Mary.

Mary M. Macdonald ( 1789 – 1872 ), who lived in the nearby crofting community of Ardtun and who spoke only Gaelic, wrote her hymn " Leanabh an Aigh " to a traditional melody.

Mary MacDonald wrote the Gaelic words to a hymn, which became an English favourite (" Child in a manger ").

Shen Khar Venakhi (, ), a hymn to the Virgin Mary, is the most famous of them.

In the hymn, Persephone returns and she is reunited with her mother near Eleusis.

The title of the sorrowful hymn is an incipit of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa (" The sorrowful mother stood ").

The joyful hymn Stabat Mater Speciosa (" The beautiful mother stood ") first appeared in a 1495 edition of the Italian poems of Jacopone da Todi which contained both Stabats ; but the Speciosa was almost forgotten until it was re-transcribed in 1852 in the " Poètes Franciscains en Italie au Treizième siècle " in Paris.

John Mason Good was named after the Puritan clergyman and hymn writer John Mason ( 1645-1694 ), of whom his mother Sarah was a descendant.

His father was a past president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and his mother was a hymn writer, credited with over 500 hymns, most notably " Blessed Assurance " with Fanny Crosby.

Leading the chorus in a hymn to Artemis, she goes to her death, with her mother Clytemnestra so distraught as to presage her murder of her husband and Orestes's matricide years later.

While many of the gathered beings wish to acquire the child for their own ends ( due to its status as a hybrid of human mutant and Asgardian god ), Russell seems intent on protecting mother and child, likening the call that drew him to Wolfsbane to the hymn " O Come All Ye Faithful ", and takes them into the woods of upstate New York to hide.

Mostly all the songs of the album became hits: L ' Aziza in honor of his Jewish Moroccan wife and mother of his son, Corine ; the main title song of the album, Sauver l ' amour an hymn to love ; Tous les Cris, les SOS, a song about about despair, Petit Homme mort au Combat which main theme is Child soldiers, Aimer est plus fort que d ' être aimé which was the last single released before Balavoine's tragic death.

Harrison biographer Elliot Huntley has described " All Things Must Pass " as a " haunting hymn about the mortality of everything " and notes the added poignance in Harrison's version, due to the death of his mother in July 1970 after a long period of illness.

Neale was named after the Puritan cleric and hymn writer John Mason ( 1645 – 94 ), of whom his mother Susanna was a descendant.

Sam Fransisku Xaviera is a Konkani hymn, which is sung as the recessional hymn at most of the novenas held at Bom Jesus Basilica, Velha Goa, the place where the relics of St. Francis Xavier are kept.

The Prologue is a hymn identifying Jesus as the Logos and as God.

As all Federal Presidents but his mentor Heinemann, who had not wished to be seen off in this manner, Rau was honored by a Großer Zapfenstreich which on his wish included the hymn " Jesus bleibet meine Freude " ( Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ).

A Lutheran Good Friday tenebrae service bulletin with Sayings of Jesus on the cross | The First Word from the Cross and a hymn based on Luke 23: 26-34.

The legend that Jesus himself visited Britain is referred to in " And did those feet in ancient time ", by William Blake in 1804, and in the hymn " Jerusalem ", with music written by C. Hubert H. Parry in 1916.

The 2004 Sessions album, which had six previously unreleased Norman songs ( including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris ) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman's Softcore, as well as rare songs by Jesus Music veterans Dave Mattson, Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Keith Green, Steve ' N ' Stonebrooke, and Daniel Amos, was sent to those who contributed $ 100 or more to his medical fund.

* 1719-Isaac Watts writes missionary hymn " Jesus Shall Reign Where ' er the Sun "

The Christian hymn " Be Still, My Soul ", written in German (" Stille meine Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen ") in 1752 by Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel ( 1697 – 1768 ) and translated into English in 1855 by Jane Laurie Borthwick ( 1813 – 1897 ), is usually sung to this tune.

The hymn is interesting in terms of Mormon theology in that it is one of the few direct references to a " Heavenly Mother " in materials published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

* Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, # 292, " O My Father "-full text of the hymn

* Diadem, the most poplur tune for the hymn All Hail the Power of Jesus ' Name

Stainer's output of sacred music was extensive, including the Passion cantata or oratorio The Crucifixion ( 1887 ), the Sevenfold Amen ( this latter piece especially admired by the lexicographer Sir George Grove ), and numerous hymn tunes, including " Cross of Jesus ", " All for Jesus " ( both from The Crucifixion ), and " Love Divine ".

Written by 30-year music-industry veteran, Isaias Gamboa, the book is the product of three years of exhaustive research and demonstrates in extraordinary detail that We Shall Overcome was in fact derived from a popular copyrighted Baptist hymn entitled, " If My Jesus Wills "-written in 1942 by an African American Baptist choir director named Louise Shropshire.

Here we can find a hymn called Jezu Kriste, ščedrý kněže (" Jesus Christ Bountiful Prince "), that people would sing during the preaching of the famous John Huss.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she is sung about in one church hymn and briefly discussed in church teaching manuals and sermons.

The Bear dances to a tune ( reminiscent of the hymn Jesus Bids us Shine ) which featured on Rattlebone and Ploughjack, a 1976 LP by Ashley Hutchings, along with a spoken description of the original custom ( which partly inspired the Whittlesey revival ).

While some believe the cause was typhoid fever, Darlene Neptune speculates that it was SIDS, and that Crosby's hymn, " Safe in the Arms of Jesus " was inspired by her daughter's death.

" More Like Jesus Would I Be ", her first hymn written for Doane in June 1867, expressly for the sixth anniversary of the Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers, a nondenominational mission at New Bowery, Manhattan.

It was originally published in 1842 in Times and Seasons and is hymn number 284 in the 1985 hymnal for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

: Psalms 69, 142, and the Small Doxology ; then the Canon followed by Axion Estin, the Trisagion, the hymn " O Lord of Hosts, be with us ...", Kyrie eleison ( 40 times ), the Prayer of the Hours, " More honorable than the cherubim ....", the Prayer of St. Ephraim, Trisagion, the Supplicatory Prayer of Paul the Monk, and the Prayer to Jesus Christ of Antiochus the Monk.