Talk:Vexilla Regis (Anton Bruckner)
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Originally the hymn comprised eight stanzas. In the tenth century, stanzas 7 and 8 were gradually replaced by new ones ("O crux ave, spes unica", and the doxology, "Te summa Deus trinitas"). Bruckner's motet incorporates stanzas 1, 6 and 7 of a text by Venantius Forunatus.