# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds
# live query, 2029-12-26, clean year.
id: lauds-hymn-st-stephen-protomartyr
text:
  la: |
    Martyr Dei, qui únicum Patris sequéndo Fílium, Victis triúmphas hóstibus, Victor fruens cæléstibus.

    Tui precátus múnere Nostrum reátum dílue, Arcens mali contágium, Vitæ rémovens tǽdium.

    Solúta sunt jam víncula Tui sacráti córporis: Nos solve vinclis sǽculi, Amóre Fílii Dei.

    Glória tibi, Dómine, Qui natus es de Vírgine, Cum Patre, et Sancto Spíritu, In sempitérna sǽcula. Amen.
  en: |
    Martyr of God, whose strength was steeled To follow close God's only Son, Well didst thou brave thy battlefield, And well thy heavenly bliss was won!

    Now join thy prayers with ours, who pray That God may pardon us and bless; For prayer keeps evil's plague away, And draws from life its weariness.

    Long, long ago, were loosed the chains That held thy body once in thrall; For us how many a bond remains! O love of God release us all.

    All praise to God the Father be, All praise to thee, Eternal Son; All praise, O Holy Ghost, to thee, While never-ending ages run. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified