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Rh "This world-famous hymn, one of the grandet in the treaury of the Latin Church, was compoed by Fortunatus on occaion of the reception of certain relics by Saint Gregory of Tours and Saint Radegunde, previouly to the conecration of a church at Poitiers. It is therefore trictly and primarily a proceional hymn, though, very naturally, afterwards adapted to Paion-tide."— Mediæval Hymns.

"C'et de Fortunat qu'et le compoé, à l'occaion du morceau de la vraie croix, envoyé par l'empereur Jutin à St. Radegonde."—Biographie Univerelle.

The lat two veres were added when the hymn was appropriated to Paion-tide. The ending of Fortunatus is this: