O salutaris hostia
O salutaris hostia (English O Saving Host) It is the penultimate stanza of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas for the Hour of Lauds in the Office of the Feast of Corpus Christi. This stanza and the final stanza, or doxology (Uni trinoque Domino), have been selected to form a separate hymn for Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Usually, and most appropriately, it is begun either when the door of the tabernacle is opened or when the monstrance is being placed on the throne of exposition. The hymn is often chosen as a motet for solemn Mass, and may thus be used after the proper Offertory for the day has been sung or recited. An indefensible, but, fortunately, very rare, custom, perhaps inaugurated by Pierre de la Rue, the profound contrapuntal composer of the fifteenth century, was that of replacing the Benedictus at Mass by the O Salutaris.
Settings by composers
- Ambrosian chant — O salutaris hostia Latin Unison
- Giovanni Francesco Anerio — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia Latin TTB
- Anonymous — O salutaris Hostia (Gyffard) Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 10 in F Latin SSAA
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 11 in F Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 12 in G Latin TTBB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 13 in a minor Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 14 in F Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 15 in F Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 16 in G Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 17 in G Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 18 in G Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 4 in A Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 5 in B-Flat Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 6 in G Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 7 in E Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 8 in G Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostia No. 9 in B-Flat Latin SATB
- Anonymous — O salutaris hostium Latin SATB
- Juan Arriaga — O salutaris Latin TTB
- Daniel Auber — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Johann Sebastian Bach — O Salutaris Latin SATB
- Ludwig van Beethoven — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Giulio Bentivoglio — O salutaris hostia Latin SSA,ATB
- Simon Biazeck — O salutaris Hostia 'Ad cenam Agni providi' Latin SATB
- Antonio Biffi — O salutaris hostia Latin ATB
- René Blin — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Mel Bonis — O salutaris Latin SATB
- Moritz Brosig — O salutaris hostia Latin SSAATBB
- William Byrd — O salutaris hostia (Gradualia) Latin ATTB
- William Byrd — O salutaris hostia a 6 Latin SAATTB
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Messe a 8 vois et 8 violons et flutes (H.3) Latin SATB.SATB
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Salut pour la veille des O, H. 36 "O salutaris hostia" Latin ATB
- Adrian Cuello — Misa contemporánea para coro mixto Latin SATB
- Adrian Cuello — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Adrian Cuello — O salutaris ostia Nº 4 Latin SATB
- Christoph Dalitz — O salutaris hostia Latin AT
- John Danby — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Léo Delibes — O Salutaris Latin SS
- Josquin des Prez — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Ignazio Donati — O salutaris hostia Latin B
- Girolamo Dorati — O salutaris hostia a 8 Latin SATB.SATB
- Dieudonne Duguet — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Edward Elgar — O Salutaris Latin SATB
- Edward Elgar — O salutaris hostia (in F major) Latin SATB
- Jean-Baptiste Faure — O salutaris Latin SATB
- André Messager and Gabriel Fauré — Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville Latin SSA
- Carlotta Ferrari — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- César Franck — O salutaris hostia Latin SA
- Vittorio Franz — O salutaris hostia Latin SSA,ATB
- Andrea Gabrieli — O salutaris a 8 Latin SATT.TTBB, SATT.ATBB, SATB.ATBB
- Mariano Garau — O salutaris hostia - 2023 Latin SSA
- Mariano Garau — O salutaris hostia 2013 Latin SATB
- Mariano Garau — O salutaris hostia 2021 Latin SSAA
- Mariano Garau — O salutaris Hostia III Latin SABB
- Mariano Garau — O salutaris hostia IV Latin SAA
- Ruggiero Giovannelli — O salutaris hostia Latin SSATB
- Charles Gounod — Deuxième Messe Latin TTBB
- Charles Gounod — Messe no. 6 in G aux cathédrales Latin SATB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 113 Latin ST
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 125 Latin SSAA,TTBB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 126 Latin SSAA,TTBB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 137 Latin SATB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 153 Latin SSTTB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 534b Latin Solo medium
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 70 Latin SATB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 70a Latin TTB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 71c1 Latin S,T
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 71c2 Latin SSAA,TTBB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 83a1 Latin Solo high
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 83a2 Latin SATB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 86a Latin S,T
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 86b Latin SS,SA,TB
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 94 Latin S,T
- Charles Gounod — O salutaris, CG 94a Latin STTBB
- Alessandro Grandi — Lauda Sion Salvatorem Latin Solo high
- Gregorian chant — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Alexandre Guilmant — 3 3-st. Motetten Latin SAB
- Benjamin Hamma — O Salutaris Latin SA
- Jacob Handl — O salutaris Latin SATB
- Oliver Hayes — O salutaris Latin SATB
- Bernard Hellebusch — O salutaris hostia No. 3 Latin SATB
- Nikolaus Herman — O salutaris Hostia 'Wir danken dir, Herr, Jesu Christ' Latin SATB
- Francesco Iannitti — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Marco Antonio Ingegneri — O salutaris hostia Latin SATTB
- Nobuaki Izawa — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Georges Jouanneau — O Salutaris Latin SATB
- Iñaki Kareaga — O salutaris Hostia Latin SAB
- Teofil Klonowski — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Jan Antonin Kozeluh — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Pierre Kunc — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Pierre de la Rue — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Huub de Lange — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Orlando di Lasso — O salutaris hostia Latin SATTB
- Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély — O Salutaris Latin Solo voice
- Franz Liszt — O salutaris hostia, S. 40 Latin SSAA
- Franz Liszt — O salutaris hostia, S. 43 Latin SATB
- Th. Maas — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Abel Di Marco — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Giovanni Battista Martini — O salutaris a 4 Latin SSTB
- Giovanni Battista Martini — O salutaris hostia a 3 Latin SSA, TTB
- Melchiorre Mauro-Cottone — O Salutaris Latin SATB
- Juan Montes — O salutaris Latin TTBB
- Donat Müller — O salutaris Latin SA
- Giovan Nasco — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — O salutaris hostia 1 Latin SATB
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — O salutaris hostia 2 Latin SATB
- Lorenzo Perosi — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Lambert Pietkin — O salutaris hostia Latin TTT
- Pasquale Pisari — O salutaris hostia Latin SSA,TTB
- Marcos Portugal — O Salutaris Hostia Latin SA
- Richard Quesnel — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Oreste Ravanello — O salutaris hostia, op. 66/33 Latin SSA
- Giovanni Battista Riccio — O salutaris hostia Latin SB
- Cipriano de Rore — O salutaris Hostia Latin SAATB
- Albert H. RoSewig — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Gioachino Rossini — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Gioachino Rossini — Petite Messe Solennelle Latin SATB
- Camille Saint-Saëns — Messe à quatre voix Latin SATB
- Oscar Santos — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Johannes Schweitzer — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- José Alexandrino de Sousa — O salutaris hostia Latin SA
- Simone Stella — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Thomas Tallis — O salutaris hostia (contrafactum of O nata lux) Latin SATTB
- Thomas Tallis — O salutaris hostia Latin SATBB
- Paolo Teodori — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Giuseppe Terrabugio — O salutaris hostia, op. 81/4 Latin SSA,ATB
- Jef Tinel — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Ascanio Trombetti — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB.ATTB
- Christopher Upton — O Salutaris (Exeter Benediction) 2 SATB
- Christopher Upton — O Salutaris Hostia (in organum) 2 SSATB
- Angel Viro — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Georg Joseph Vogler — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Samuel Webbe — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Samuel Webbe — O salutaris II Latin SATB
- Thurlow Weed — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Anthony Werner — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Ignatius M Wilkins — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Adrian Willaert — O salutaris hostia Latin SATTTB
- Franz Xaver Witt — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Joseph Gregor Zangl — 2 Sakramentsmotetten Latin SATB
- Johannes Ev. Zelinka — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Ilaria Zuccaro — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
- Peter Josef Zwyssig — O salutaris hostia Latin SATB
A royalist middle verse is set by some French composers:
- O salutaris hostia (Étienne Moulinié)
- François Giroust (1739-99) set all three vv.
An English version is John Stainer's
Original text and translations
Latin text O salutaris hostia Uni trinoque Domino
O salvatrice vittima All'uno e trino Principe,
O heilbringende Opfergabe/Hostie, Dem einen dreifaltigen Herrn
О Спасающая Жертва, Три-единому Господу |
English translation O saving victim To the Lord, three in one,
Gegroet, o (heilig) offer(dier), Aan U, o drieëne Heer,
O offergave van ons heil De éne en drievoudige Heer |
French translation Victime qui nous as sauvés Éternelle gloire au Seigneur,
Ó Hóstia que salva, Ao Deus uno e trino
救主基督 願永存的榮耀 |