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Folio 20v
Commemorations of the saints, continued.
Saint Thomas.
Hymn, Gaude lux Londoniarum.
A hymn commemorating St Thomas (see AH, 29, p 89). The London-born archbishop
of Canterbury was exiled by King Henry II but, hearing the voice of Christ (GL,
p 69), he returned to England, where he was martyred.
Gaude lux Londoniarum
Thoma tutor\ animarum
dei providencia.
Gaude\ Thoma persecutus
et per regem\ allocutus
eius in consilio.\
Gaude sine iure vero
primas\ exul rege fero
Thoma flos ecclesie.
Gaude Tho\ma Martis die
vocem audiens Messie
cum esses\ in Francia.
Gaude transfretum [trans fretum] reversus
pacis ad\ formam conversus
Thoma primas Anglie.
Gau\de Thoma pastor vere
fide duce morti fere
collum\ subdens gladio.
Gaude Thoma nominatus\
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