O salutaris hostia
O salutaris hostia (English O Saving Host) 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—was that of replacing the Benedictus at Mass by the O salutaris. 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 O saving Victim
Notes on selected settings
Settings by composers (automatically updated)
- Marcial del Adalid — Latin SATB
- Ambrosian chant — Latin Unison
- Giovanni Francesco Anerio — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin TTB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin STTB
- Anonymous — Latin SSAA
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin TTBB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Anonymous — Latin SATB
- Juan Arriaga — Latin TTB
- Caterina Assandra — Latin SB
- Daniel Auber — Latin SATB
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Latin SATB
- Jennifer Bastable — Latin SATB
- Ludwig van Beethoven — Latin SATB
- Giulio Bentivoglio — Latin SSA,ATB
- Simon Biazeck — Latin SATB
- Antonio Biffi — Latin ATB
- René Blin — Latin SATB
- August De Boeck — Latin SATB
- Valerio Bona — Latin SAB
- Mel Bonis — Latin SATB
- Moritz Brosig — Latin SSAATBB
- William Byrd — Latin ATTB
- William Byrd — Latin SAATTB
- Jean de Castro — Latin SATTB
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Latin SATB.SATB
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Latin ATB
- Adrian Cuello — Latin SATB
- Adrian Cuello — Latin SATB
- Adrian Cuello — Latin SATB
- Christoph Dalitz — Latin AT
- John Danby — Latin SATB
- Franz Danzi — Latin SATB
- Léo Delibes — Latin SS
- Josquin des Prez — Latin SATB
- Joseph Deschermeier — Latin SA, TB, SATB
- Ignazio Donati — Latin B
- Girolamo Dorati — Latin SATB.SATB
- Dieudonne Duguet — Latin SATB
- Edward Elgar — Latin SATB
- Edward Elgar — Latin SATB
- Jean-Baptiste Faure — Latin SATB
- André Messager and Gabriel Fauré — Latin SSA
- Carlotta Ferrari — Latin SATB
- César Franck — Latin SA
- Vittorio Franz — Latin SSA,ATB
- Andrea Gabrieli — Latin SATT.TTBB, SATT.ATBB, SATB.ATBB
- Mariano Garau — Latin SSA
- Mariano Garau — Latin SATB
- Mariano Garau — Latin SSAA
- Mariano Garau — Latin SABB
- Mariano Garau — Latin SAA
- Ruggiero Giovannelli — Latin SSATB
- Charles Gounod — Latin TTBB
- Charles Gounod — Latin SATB
- Charles Gounod — Latin ST
- Charles Gounod — Latin SSAA,TTBB
- Charles Gounod — Latin SSAA,TTBB
- Charles Gounod — Latin SATB
- Charles Gounod — Latin SSTTB
- Charles Gounod — Latin Solo medium
- Charles Gounod — Latin SATB
- Charles Gounod — Latin TTB
- Charles Gounod — Latin S,T
- Charles Gounod — Latin SSAA,TTBB
- Charles Gounod — Latin Solo high
- Charles Gounod — Latin SATB
- Charles Gounod — Latin S,T
- Charles Gounod — Latin SS,SA,TB
- Charles Gounod — Latin S,T
- Charles Gounod — Latin STTBB
- Alessandro Grandi — Latin Solo high
- Gregorian chant — Latin SATB
- Antonio Grimaldi — Latin SA
- Alexandre Guilmant — Latin SAB
- Alexandre Guilmant — Latin SATB
- Alexandre Guilmant — Latin SATB
- Alexandre Guilmant — Latin SATB
- Alexandre Guilmant — Latin SATB
- Benjamin Hamma — Latin SA
- Jacob Handl — Latin SATB
- Oliver Hayes — Latin SATB
- Bernard Hellebusch — Latin SATB
- George Henschel — Unknown SATB
- Nikolaus Herman — Latin SATB
- Francesco Iannitti — Latin SATB
- Marco Antonio Ingegneri — Latin SATTB
- Nobuaki Izawa — Latin SATB
- Wilfrid Jones — Latin SATB
- Georges Jouanneau — Latin SATB
- Iñaki Kareaga — Latin SAB
- Teofil Klonowski — Latin SATB
- Jan Antonin Kozeluh — Latin SATB
- Pierre Kunc — Latin SATB
- Pierre de la Rue — Latin SATB
- Huub de Lange — Latin SATB
- Orlando di Lasso — Latin SATTB
- Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély — Latin Solo voice
- Franz Liszt — Latin SSAA
- Franz Liszt — Latin SATB
- Th. Maas — Latin SATB
- Abel Di Marco — Latin SATB
- Giovanni Battista Martini — Latin SSTB
- Giovanni Battista Martini — Latin SSA, TTB
- Melchiorre Mauro-Cottone — Latin SATB
- Juan Montes — Latin TTBB
- Stephen Moreno — Latin SAA,S
- Stephen Moreno — Latin SAA,S
- Stephen Moreno — Latin SAA,S
- Donat Müller — Latin SA
- Luis de Narváez — Latin SATTB
- Giovan Nasco — Latin SATB
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Latin SATB
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Latin SATB
- Lorenzo Perosi — Latin SATB
- Eduard Perrone — Latin SATB
- Lambert Pietkin — Latin TTT
- Pasquale Pisari — Latin SSA,TTB
- Jean-Marie Plum — Latin S
- Marcos Portugal — Latin SA
- Richard Quesnel — Latin SATB
- Oreste Ravanello — Latin SSA
- Giovanni Battista Riccio — Latin SB
- Cipriano de Rore — Latin SAATB
- Albert H. RoSewig — Latin SATB
- Carlo Rossini — Latin SA, TB, SATB
- Carlo Rossini — Latin SA, TB, SATB
- Carlo Rossini — Latin SA, TB, SATB
- Gioachino Rossini — Latin SATB
- Gioachino Rossini — Latin SATB
- Camille Saint-Saëns — Latin SATB
- Oscar Santos — Latin SATB
- Georges Schmitt — Latin SATB
- Johannes Schweitzer — Latin SATB
- Johann Baptist Singenberger — Latin SA, TB, SATB
- José Alexandrino de Sousa — Latin SA
- Simone Stella — Latin SATB
- Thomas Tallis — Latin SATTB
- Thomas Tallis — Latin SATBB
- Paolo Teodori — Latin SATB
- Giuseppe Terrabugio — Latin SSA,ATB
- Jef Tinel — Latin SATB
- Ascanio Trombetti — Latin SATB.ATTB
- Christopher Upton — 2 SATB
- Christopher Upton — 2 SSATB
- Angel Viro — Latin SATB
- Georg Joseph Vogler — Latin SATB
- Franciszek Walczyński — Latin TTBB
- Franciszek Walczyński — Latin SATB
- Franciszek Walczyński — Latin SATB
- Franciszek Walczyński — Latin SATB
- Franciszek Walczyński — Latin SA
- Franciszek Walczyński — Latin SATB
- Franciszek Walczyński — Latin SSA
- Franciszek Walczyński — Latin SSA
- Samuel Webbe — Latin SATB
- Samuel Webbe — Latin SATB
- Thurlow Weed — Latin SATB
- Anthony Werner — Latin SATB
- Ignatius M Wilkins — Latin SATB
- Adrian Willaert — Latin SATTTB
- Franz Xaver Witt — Latin SATTB
- Franz Xaver Witt — Latin SATB
- Joseph Gregor Zangl — Latin SATB
- Johannes Ev. Zelinka — Latin SATB
- Ilaria Zuccaro — Latin SATB
- Peter Josef Zwyssig — Latin SATB
Text and translations
 Latin textO salutaris hostia  Italian translationby Daniele Ventre  German translationO heilbringende Opfergabe/Hostie,  Russian translationО Спасающая Жертва, |
 English translationLiteral English translationMetrical, "J. M. Neale, E. Caswall, and others"  Dutch translationGegroet, o (heilig) offer(dier), |
 Hungarian translationÓ üdvösséges Áldozat,  French translationVictime qui nous as sauvés  Portuguese translationÓ Hóstia que salva,  Chinese translation救主基督 |