Velum templi
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General information
2nd responsory for Good Friday
Settings by composers
- Giovanni Croce SATB
- Mariano Garau SATB
- Marco Antonio Ingegneri SATB
- Antonio Maria Pacchioni SATB
Original text and translations
Latin text
Velum templi scissum est
et omnis terra tremuit.
Latro de cruce clamabat, dicens:
'Memento mei dum veneris in regnum tuum.'
Petrae scissae sunt et monumenta aperta sunt
et multa corpora sanctorum qui dormierant, surrexerunt.
English translation
The veil of the temple was rent
and all the earth shook.
The robber from the cross cried out, saying:
Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Rocks were broken and graves were opened;
and many bodies of the saints who slept, arose.