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Folio 16v
Commemorations of the saints, continued.
St Michael the Archangel, continued
Hymn, Gaude princeps supernorum.
A hymn commemorating St Michael the Archangel (AH, 29, p 413). He is the
principal archangel, who leads the souls of the saved to paradise (GL, p 578)
and overcame Satan in the form of a dragon (ibid, p 583).
Gaude princeps supernorum
Micha\el archangelorum
dei providencia.\
Gaude ductor animarum
ad\ Paradysum salvandarum
summa\ dei clemencia.
Gaude quia\ devicisti
draconem et deiecisti
de celis ad infera\
Gaude quia sic certasti
dum Luciferum superasti
po\tencia salutifera.
Gaude quia milia [milicia]
centena\ et plurima
agmina celorum.
Gaude quia te\cum cantant
laudem dei et exultant
in speculo be\atorum.
Fac nos ergo collaudare
tecum semper\
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