Lapidabant Stephanum

General information

Motet for the feast of St. Stephen. Source of text is Acts 7:58-59 (Vulgate).

Settings by composers

• Giovanni Matteo Asola TTBB
• Iva Juras SATB
• Giovanni Maria Nanino SAT
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • SATB
  • SATTB

Text and translations

Latin text 58  Lapidabant[Lapidaverunt] Stephanum invocantem et dicentem: Domine Jesu Christe, suscipe[accipe] spiritum meum. 59  Positis autem genibus clamavit voce magna dicens: et ne statuas illis hoc peccatum. Et cum hoc dixisset, obdormivit in Domino. English translation 59  And they stoned Stephen who, calling upon God and saying: Lord Jesus Christ, receive my spirit. 60  And he knelt down, and cried with a loud voice, saying: do not lay this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he slept in the Lord.