# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Vespers
# live query, 2026-04-25, the same clean date already used for lauds-capitulum-st-mark.yml. This hymn's closing doxology stanza is seasonally variable in the source (tagged `{Doxology: PaschT}`); what's captured here is whatever rendered live on the query date above, not a season-aware substitution -- same known-not-modeled gap as the Paschaltide alleluia suffix elsewhere (see TODO.md).
id: vespers-hymn-st-mark
text:
  la: |
    Tristes erant Apóstoli
    De nece sui Dómini,
    Quem pœna mortis crudéli
    Servi damnárant ímpii.

    Sermóne blando Angelus
    Prædíxit muliéribus:
    In Galilǽa Dóminus
    Vidéndus est quantócius.

    Illæ dum pergunt cóncitæ,
    Apóstolis hoc dícere,
    Vidéntes eum vívere,
    Osculántur pedes Dómini.

    Quo ágnito, discípuli
    In Galilǽam própere
    Pergunt vidére fáciem
    Desiderátam Dómini.

    Quǽsumus, Auctor ómnium,
    In hoc pascháli gáudio,
    Ab omni mortis ímpetu
    Tuum defénde pópulum.

    Glória tibi Dómine,
    Qui surrexísti a mórtuis,
    Cum Patre et Sancto Spíritu,
    In sempitérna sǽcula.
    Amen.
  en: |
    While Christ's disciples, grieving, sad,
    Their master's painful death deplore,
    Whom faithless servants' cruel hands,
    Had bathed in his own crimson gore;

    Quick from the happy realms above,
    An angel comes on joyful wing,
    And to the women tells the joy
    That to his flock their Lord will bring.

    As they with eager steps make haste,
    Their joyous message to repeat,
    Their master's glorious form they see,
    And falling clasp his sacred feet.

    Cheered by this tale, his faithful flock
    The Galilean mount ascend,
    And there with loving awe behold
    Their heart's sole wish, their truest friend.

    That thou mayst be our Paschal joy
    Through happy, never-ending years,
    thine own poor children, Jesu, free
    From sin's sad death with all its fears.

    To Thee Who, dead, again dost live,
    All glory, Lord, Thy people give;
    All glory, as is ever meet,
    To Father and to Paraclete.
    Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified