O salutaris hostia

O salutaris hostia (English O Saving Host) is the penultimate stanza of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas for the Hour of Lauds in the Office of the Feast of Corpus Christi. This stanza and the final stanza, or doxology (Uni trinoque Domino), have been selected to form a separate hymn for Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Usually, and most appropriately, it is begun either when the door of the tabernacle is opened or when the monstrance is being placed on the throne of exposition. The hymn is often chosen as a motet for solemn Mass, and may thus be used after the proper Offertory for the day has been sung or recited. An indefensible, but fortunately very rare custom—perhaps inaugurated by Pierre de la Rue—was that of replacing the Benedictus at Mass by the O salutaris.

Settings by composers

Anonymous Ambrosian chant Gyffard partbooks c. 1550 ATB copied c. 1850 SATB O salutaris hostia No.2 in F Giovanni Francesco Anerio SATB Juan Arriaga TTB & strings Daniel Auber SATB & organ Ludwig van Beethoven SATB Giulio Bentivoglio SSA O salutaris Hostia 'Ad cenam Agni providi' (Simon Biazeck) SATB (v. 2) O salutaris hostia (Antonio Biffi) ATB organ Mel Bonis SATB Moritz Brosig SATB divisi William Byrd Gradualia I ATTB 6 vv. Marc-Antoine Charpentier Messe a 8 vv. H.3 as Élevation for bass, 2 recorders & bc from Salut pour la veille des O, H. 36 ATB bc Adrian Cuello Misa contemporánea para coro mixto (Adrian Cuello) SATB O salutaris hostia (Adrian Cuello) SATB O salutaris ostia Nº 4 (Adrian Cuello) SATB Christoph Dalitz AT & organ John Danby SATB Josquin des Prez — below under "J" Ignazio Donati bass & bc Girolamo Dorati SATB.SATB Edward Elgar in E-flat SATB & organ in F major SATB & organ Jean-Baptiste Faure Sop. solo, SATB organ César Franck SA organ Vittorio Franz a 3 Andrea Gabrieli high & low choirs Mariano Garau O salutaris hostia 2013 (Mariano Garau) SATB O salutaris hostia 2016 (Mariano Garau) SATB O salutaris Hostia III (Mariano Garau) SABB Ruggiero Giovannelli SSATB Charles Gounod (at least 24 settings, listed on disambiguation page) 7 Motetten Chants sacrés Deuxième Messe O salutaris a 2 CG 124 medium voice & organ CG 126 SSAA or TTBB CG 70a TTB (organ ad lib.) Alessandro Grandi: Lauda Sion Salvatorem high voice, 2 violins & bc Alexandre Guilmant SAB & organ Jacob Handl SATB Oliver Hayes SATB Francesco Iannitti SATB Nobuaki Izawa SATB Josquin des Prez SATB (there is a conflicting attribution to Gaspar van Weerbecke)

Teofil Klonowski SATB Jan Antonin Kozeluh SATB & orchestra Pierre de La Rue SATB Huub de Lange Orlando di Lasso Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély solo voice & organ Franz Liszt S. 40 SSAA & organ S. 43 SATB & organ Abel Di Marco Giovanni Battista Martini a 3 SSA or TTB a 4 SSTB André Messager, part of Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville) Donat Müller Giovan Nasco Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina O salutaris hostia 1 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) SATB O salutaris hostia 2 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) SATB Lorenzo Perosi Pasquale Pisari Marcos Portugal Oreste Ravanello — O salutaris hostia, op. 66/33 Giovanni Battista Riccio Albert H. Rosewig Gioachino Rossini O salutaris hostia (Gioachino Rossini) Petite Messe Solennelle (Gioachino Rossini) Camille Saint-Saëns Oscar Santos José Alexandrino de Sousa Thomas Tallis O salutaris hostia (Thomas Tallis) O salutaris hostia (contrafactum of O nata lux) (Thomas Tallis) Paolo Teodori Giuseppe Terrabugio Jef Tinel Ascanio Trombetti Christopher Upton Exeter Benediction in organum Angel Viro SATB Georg Joseph Vogler SATB Samuel Webbe MELCOMBE SATB (org) O salutaris II (Samuel Webbe) soli SA & organ, SATB Thurlow Weed SATB (org) Gaspar van Weerbecke see O salutaris hostia (Josquin des Prez) Anthony Werner SATB Adrian Willaert a 6 Franz Xavier Witt SATB (excerpt from Verbum supernum prodiens (Franz Xaver Witt) Joseph Gregor Zangl SATB organ & strings Johannes Ev. Zelinka SATB Ilaria Zuccaro SATB Peter Josef Zwyssig SATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 10 in F
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 11 in F
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 12 in G
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 13 in a minor
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 14 in F
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 15 in F
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 16 in G
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 17 in G
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 18 in G
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 4 in A
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 5 in B-Flat
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 6 in G
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 7 in E
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 8 in G
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 9 in B-Flat
• Anonymous — O salutaris hostium
• Caterina Assandra — O salutaris hostia
• Johann Sebastian Bach — O salutaris
• Jennifer Bastable — O salutaris Hostia
• René Blin — O salutaris hostia
• August De Boeck — O salutaris hostia
• Léo Delibes — O Salutaris
• Dieudonne Duguet — O salutaris hostia
• Jean-Baptiste Faure — O salutaris
• Carlotta Ferrari — O salutaris hostia
• Mariano Garau — O salutaris hostia - 2023
• Mariano Garau — O salutaris hostia 2021
• Mariano Garau — O salutaris hostia IV
• Charles Gounod — Messe no. 6 in G aux cathédrales
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 113
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 125
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 137
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 153
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 534b
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 70
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 71c1
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 71c2
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 83a1
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 83a2
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 86a
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 86b
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 94
• Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 94a
• Gregorian chant — O salutaris hostia
• Benjamin Hamma — O Salutaris
• Bernard Hellebusch — O salutaris hostia No. 3
• Nikolaus Herman — O salutaris Hostia 'Wir danken dir, Herr, Jesu Christ'
• Marco Antonio Ingegneri — O salutaris hostia
• Georges Jouanneau — O Salutaris
• Iñaki Kareaga — O salutaris Hostia
• Pierre Kunc — O salutaris hostia
• Th. Maas — O salutaris hostia
• Melchiorre Mauro-Cottone — O Salutaris
• Juan Montes — O salutaris
• Eduard Perrone — O salutaris Hostia
• Lambert Pietkin — O salutaris hostia
• Richard Quesnel — O salutaris hostia
• Cipriano de Rore — O salutaris Hostia
• Johannes Schweitzer — O salutaris hostia
• Simone Stella — O salutaris hostia
• Franciszek Walczyński — O salutaris hostia
• Franciszek Walczyński — O salutaris hostia in e minor
• Franciszek Walczyński — O salutaris hostia in F
• Franciszek Walczyński — O salutaris hostia in G
• Franciszek Walczyński — O salutaris hostia in g minor
• Ignatius M Wilkins — O salutaris hostia

A royalist middle verse is set by some French composers:

• O salutaris hostia (Étienne Moulinié)
• François Giroust (1739-99) set all three vv.

An English version is John Stainer's

• O saving Victim

Text and translations

Latin text O salutaris hostia quae caeli pandis ostium, bella premunt hostilia: da robur, fer auxilium Uni trinoque Domino sit sempiterna gloria, qui vitam sine termino nobis donet in patria.   Italian translation by Daniele Ventre O salvatrice vittima Che schiudi ai cieli il viatico, Ostili assalti premono, Dà tu forza ed ausilio! All'uno e trino Principe, Che vita senza termine Dà a noi nella sua patria, Sia sempiterna gloria.   German translation O heilbringende Opfergabe/Hostie, die du die Tür des Himmels öffnest, feindliche Kriege drängen: Gib Kraft, bringe Hilfe. Dem einen dreifaltigen Herrn Sei ewige Ehre, der Leben ohne Ende uns geben möge im Vaterland.   Russian translation О Спасающая Жертва, кто отворяет врата небес! Мы гибнем от гнёта злобы. Укрепи [нас] и дай помощи. Три-единому Господу будет слава, кто дарует нам бесконечную жизнь в отчизне нашей (т.е., на небесах)

English translation Literal O saving victim who opens the gate of heaven, hostile wars press on us: give strength, bring aid. To the Lord, three in one, be everlasting glory, for life without end he gives us in (his) Kingdom.   English translation Metrical, "J. M. Neale, E. Caswall, and others" O saving Victim! opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press hard on every side, Thine aid supply, thy strength bestow. All praise and thanks to thee ascend For evermore, blest One in Three; O grant us life that shall not end In our true native land with thee.   Dutch translation Gegroet, o (heilig) offer(dier), Gij die de hemelpoort opent, steun (ons in) onze strijd tegen de(aards-)vijanden, geef kracht en draag bij met Uw hulp. Aan U, o drieëne Heer, komt eeuwige eer toe, U, die ons in het (hemelse) Vaderhuis een leven geeft, waaraan geen einde komt. Alternative Dutch translation O offergave van ons heil die ons de hemelpoort ontsluit; aan wie de vijand onderdrukt geef uw kracht en breng uw hulp. De éne en drievoudige Heer zij ongemeten heerlijkheid; Hij moge 't leven zonder eind ons geven in het Vaderland.

Hungarian translation Ó üdvösséges Áldozat, ki eget nyitsz néped előtt: ellenség hoz reánk hadat, küldj segítséget, adj erőt! Egy-háromságos Istenünk, örök dicsőség teneked, ki a hazában minekünk adsz határtalan életet.   French translation Victime qui nous as sauvés Et nous ouvres l'entrée du ciel: Contre l'ennemi qui nous presse, Rends-nous forts, porte-nous secours. Éternelle gloire au Seigneur, L'unique Dieu en trois personnes; Qu'il nous donne, dans la patrie, La vie qui jamais ne s'achève.   Portuguese translation Ó Hóstia que salva, que abre as portas do céu! Lutas adversas nos oprimem, dá-nos força, traz-nos auxílio. Ao Deus uno e trino glória seja para sempre. Dê-nos a vida eterna na Pátria celestial.   Chinese translation 救主基督 開啟天國大門者 在敵意與爭戰壓迫中 賜予力量與幫助 願永存的榮耀 歸於三位一體的主 在祂的國度裡 賜我們永生