XLVIII. O orzchis ecclesia (Item in dedicatione ecclesie)
The Church Adorned and Crowned
The immense church is celebrated as girded with divine weapons, adorned with jacinth, glowing with the stigmata of the peoples, and crowned as a choice gem in lofty sound.
Antiphon: O immense church, girded with divine weapons and adorned with jacinth, you are the burning heat of the stigmata of the peoples and the city of knowledge. O, o, you are also crowned in lofty sound, and you are a choice gem.
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Antiphona: O orzchis ecclesia armis divinis precincta et iacincto ornata, tu es caldemia stigmatum loifolum et urbs scientiarum. O, o, tu es etiam crizanta in alto sono et es chorzta gemma.
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