"Pulcherrima Rosa". The 15th-Century Motet To The Blessed Virgin Mary. "The Most Beautiful Rose".

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"Mon Jésus, Je Vous Aime, et me donne á Vous pour toujours."

"My Jesus, I love You, and give myself to You for always."

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"Pulcherrima Rosa"

(The Most Beautiful Rose).

By The Hilliard Ensemble

and Jan Garbarek.

The Chapel of Jesus College,

Cambridge, England.

1994.

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Pulcherrima rosa de spina floruit

Ex flore germinosa lilium genuit

Servans pudorem ex virgineo more

Peperit factura factura factorem.

Virgo singularis te nulla dignior

Fulgens stella maris luna lucidior

Sic succuristi regina mundo tristi

Eve matris sic quae noxam que solvisti.

Esto nobis grata tis aput filium

Mater advocata post hoc exilium

Nos per iuvamen pater natus ac flamen

Tuum mater virgo solvat omnes.

Amen.

Latin Text: CPDL

Most Beautiful Rose blooming from a thorn

From the budding flower, a lily born

Serving modestly and in a Virginal way

The created one bore The Creator

Unique Virgin, no-one is worthy of you

Gleaming Star of the Sea, Light and the Moon

Serving modestly and in a Virginal way

The created one bore The Creator

Such succour Queen of this sad World

And Mother of Eve who lightens our punishment

Serving modestly and in a Virginal way

The created one bore The Creator

Freely for us, beside your Son, Mother and witness

After this Earthly exile

Serving modestly and in a Virginal way

The created one bore The Creator.

Amen.

English Text: DATAB.US

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"Rosa Mystica" (Mystical Rose) is one of Our Lady's beautiful Titles.

It is included in the recitation of The Litany to Our Lady (The Litany of Loreto).