O Sanctissima

O Sanctissima is a catholic prayer dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Its Latin title means “O Very Holy” in French. Still today, the Latin original version is requested much and sung that the translated versions.

The prayer was made up at the 18th century and its author is unknown. At the 19th century, Antonín Dvořák composed a mass which sang this prayer.

The German text was written by Johannes Daniel Falk. An inscription in the Cathédrale of Whorl points out the first words of the song. Sometimes, O Sanctissima is played as a Christmas carol. The Christmas carols O of the fröhliche (German) or O how joyfully (English) take as a starting point the prayer but have different words.

The prayer points out holiness, the piety and the softness of the Virgin Mary. She says that Marie is loved without spot; this referred to the Immaculate-Design. This prayer underlines the beauty of the Virgin Mary, in particular by the formula Tota Pulchra Es, which is also the title of another prayer.

The two first towards third stanza clearly refer to the Cantique of the canticles: “As a lily in the middle of the spines, Such is my friend among the young girls.” (Ct 2:2). The formula “request for us” is often repeated, as in the Litanies of Lorette. Lastly, the request “For us request per hour of our death” can also be found in the Ave Maria.

The text of the prayer

Latin

O Sanctissima

O Sanctissima O Piissima
Dulcis Virgo Maria
MATER amata intemerata
Ora will ora pro nobis

Tota will pulchra are O Maria
And mackled not is in te
MATER amata intemerata
Ora will ora pro nobis

Sicut lilium inter spinas
Sic Maria inter filias
MATER amata intemerata
Ora will ora pro nobis

In miseria in angustia
Ora Virgo pro nobis
Pro nobis will ora in mortis hora
Ora will ora pro nobis

French

O Very Holy

O Very Holy, O Very Pieuse
Soft Virgin Mary
Mother having been liked without tache
Request, request for nous

You are very beautiful, O Marie
And the original fault is not in toi
Mother having been liked without tache
Request, request for nous

As a lily in the middle of the spine S
Such is Marie among the young people filles
Mother having been liked without spot
Request, request for nous

In misery and angoisse
Request Vierge, for nous
For us request per hour of our mort
Request, request for nous

External bonds

To listen to O Sanctissima and some other prayers mariales
Words of O of the fröhliche and O how joyfully
research exposed multilingual one " O sanctissima" /" O of the froehliche"

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