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Inviolata

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Inviolate, spotless and pure art thou,

O Mary Who wast made the radiant gate of Heaven.

Holy mother of Christ most dear,

receive our devout hymn and praise.

Our hearts and tongues now ask of thee

that our souls and bodies may be pure.

By thy sweet sounding prayers

obtain for us forgiveness forever.

O benevolent! O Queen! O Mary,

who alone among women art inviolate.

Invioláta, íntegra, et casta es María:

Quae es effécta fúlgida caeli porta.

O Mater alma Christi caríssima:

Súscipe pia laudum praecónia.

Te nunc flágitant devóta corda et ora:

Nostra ut pura péctora sint et córpora.

Tua per precáta dulcísona:

Nobis concédas véniam per saécula.

O benígna!

O Regína!

O María!

Quae sola invioláta permansísti.

About this prayer

*Inviolate, spotless and pure art thou, O Mary* — a sequence in praise of the Virgin who became the radiant gate of heaven.

History

A Marian prose of the eleventh century, long sung at Benediction and after Compline; the Liber Usualis prints it among the chants in honour of the Blessed Virgin.

Latin: *The Liber Usualis* (Desclée, 1961), p. 1861, as transcribed in [GregoBase](https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=3027) · English: Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1874–1923), via [Virgo Sacrata](https://www.virgosacrata.com/?p=18884)

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