Venantius Fortunatus (530-609)

St Venantius Fortunatus (530-609) was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church, born in Duplavis, near Treviso in Venetia, Italy.

Fortunatus is best known for two poems that have become part of the liturgy of the Catholic Church, the Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis (“Sing, O tongue, of the glorious struggle”), a hymn that later inspired St Thomas Aquinas’s Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium. He also wrote Vexilla Regis prodeunt (“The royal banners forward go”), which is a sequence sung at Vespers during Holy Week.

The God Whom Earth And Sea And Sky
Hymn / Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple / Eisenach / Feast Of The Blessed Virgin Mary / Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630) / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / John Mason Neale (1818-1866) / LM (88 88) / Venantius Fortunatus (530-609) / Year A Advent 4 / Year B Proper 17, Ordinary 22, Trinity 13

The God Whom Earth And Sea And Sky (Eisenach, Organ, 4 Verses)

The God Whom Earth And Sea And Sky : Recording Tune: Eisenach, by Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630) harmonised by Johann Sebastian

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The Royal Banners Forward Go
Hymn / Feast of St Stephen / Gonfalon Royal / Good Friday / Holy Week Tuesday / Holy Week Wednesday / John Mason Neale (1818-1866) / Lent / LM (88 88) / Palm Sunday Litany Of The Passion / Passiontide / Percy Carter Buck (1871-1947) / Venantius Fortunatus (530-609) / Year A Palm Sunday - Liturgy of The Palms and Liturgy of The Passion / Year B Feast of Christ The King / Year B Lent 2 / Year B Lent 3 / Year B Lent 5 - Passion Sunday / Year B Palm Sunday - Liturgy of The Palms and Liturgy of The Passion / Year B Proper 6, Ordinary 11, Trinity 2 / Year C Lent 5 - Passion Sunday / Year C Palm Sunday - Liturgy of The Palms and Liturgy of The Passion

The Royal Banners Forward Go (Gonfalon Royal, Organ, 6 Verses)

The Royal Banners Forward Go : Lyrics 1. The royal banners forward go, The cross shines forth in mystic glow;

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