Lapidabant Stephanum

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Motet for the feast of St. Stephen. Source of text is Acts 7:58-59 (Vulgate).

Latin text

58 Lapidabant Stephanum invocantem et dicentem: Domine Jesu Christe, accipe spiritum meum.

59 ...et ne statuas illis hoc peccatum. Et cum hoc dixisset, obdormivit in Domino.

English translation

58 And they stoned Stephen who, calling upon God and saying: Lord Jesus Christ, receive my spirit.

59 ...and do not lay this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he slept in the Lord.