Inviolata integra et casta

General information

Sequence hymn, mainly associated with Candlemas but occasionally used at Assumption & other feasts.

Notes on selected settings

• Anonymous, from Attaingnant's Fourth Book of motets, 1534 TTBB, identical to Jean Courtois
• Jean Courtois TTBB ("O benigna" x3 instead of "… O Regina, O Maria")
• Charles Gounod 4 unmixed vv, TTBB

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Anonymous — Inviolata (Susato Liber 11)  Latin SATBB
• Giovanni Contino — Inviolata  Latin SATTBB
• Jean Courtois — Inviolata  Latin TTBB
• Nicolas Gombert — Inviolata, integra et casta  Latin ATTTB, SAATB
• Charles Gounod — Inviolata, CG 124  Latin TTBB,SSAA
• Gregorian chant — Inviolata  Latin Unison
• Harsius — Inviolata  Latin STTBB
• Heinrich Isaac — Inviolata  Latin STTTB
• Josquin des Prez — Inviolata, integra et casta  Latin SATTB
• Vicente Lusitano — Inviolata, integra et casta es  Latin SSAATTBB
• Jean Maillard — Inviolata  Latin SSAT
• Andreas de Silva — Inviolata  Latin SATB
• Philippe Verdelot — Inviolata  Latin SSAATTBB
• Franciszek Walczyński — Inviolata  Latin SATB
• Adrian Willaert — Inviolata, integra et casta  Latin SSAATTB

Text and translations

Latin text Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria: Quae es effecta fulgida caeli porta. O Mater alma Christi carissima: Suscipe pia laudum praeconia. Te nunc flagitant devota corda et ora: Nostra ut pura pectora sint et corpora. Tua per precata dulcisona: Nobis concedas veniam per saecula. O benigna! O Regina! O Maria! Quae sola inviolata permansisti.

English translation Inviolate, whole and chaste are you, Mary: you are the shining gate of heaven. O kind mother, dearest to Christ, accept our faithful hymns of praise. To you our hearts and lips cry out: may our souls and bodies be pure. Through your prayers' sweet sounds grant us forgiveness for ever. O kindly one! O Queen! O Mary! you alone remain inviolate.