English Come all ye holy Written 7th century Meter 10.10 | Genre Hymn Language Latin Published AD 680–691 | |
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Sancti venite is a Latin Eucharistic hymn recorded in the Antiphonary of Bangor.
History
"Sancti venite" was composed at Bangor Abbey in the 7th century AD, making it the oldest known Eucharistic hymn.
It was carried to Bobbio Abbey and was first published by Ludovico Antonio Muratori in his Anecdota Latina ex Ambrosianæ Bibliothecæ codicibus (1697–98), when he discovered it in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
According to a legend recorded in An Leabhar Breac, the hymn was first sung by angels at St. Seachnall's Church, Dunshaughlin, after Secundinus had reconciled with his uncle Saint Patrick.
References
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