Ave Maris Stella

Ave maris stella

Published in 71 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Ave maris stella,
Dei Mater alma,
Atque semper virgo,
Felix coeli porta.

2 Sumens illud Ave
Gabrielis ore,
Funda nos in pace,
Mutans Evae nomen.

3 Solve vincla reis,
Profer lumen caecis,
Mala nostra pelle,
Bona cuncta posce.

4 Monstra te esse matrem.
Sumat per te preces,
Qui pro nobis natus,
Tulit esse tuus.

5 Virgo singularis,
Inter omnes mitis,
Nos culpis solutos,
Mites fac et castos.

6 Vitam praesta puram,
Iter para tutum,
Ut videntes Jesum,
Semper collaetemur.

7 Sit laus Deo Patri,
Summo Christo decus,
Spiritui Sancto,
Tribus honor unus. Amen.


Source: Laudis Corona: the new Sunday school hymn book, containing a collection of Catholic hymns, arranged for the principal seasons and festivals of the year #63

Text Information

First Line: Ave maris stella
Title: Ave Maris Stella
Language: Latin
Copyright: Public Domain

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Ave maris stella. Anon. [Blessed Virgin Mary.] This hymn, so well known as to its words, is of uncertain authorship. It has been wrongly ascribed to St. Bernard, as it is found in a St. Gall manuscript, No. 95, of the 9th century, and to Venantius Fortunatus (by M. A. Luchi, 1789), but on insufficient authority. The text is given in Daniel, i., No. 171, with various readings. (Other notes are given in vol. iii. p. 286, and vol. iv. p. 136.) Mone gives five paraphrases of this hymn, Nos. 496-500; each line of the original being followed by versified explanations and simplifications, a certain testimony to the popularity of the original.

It has been treated with so much respect as hardly to have been altered in the Roman Breviary, 1632, and was retained in the revised Breviaries of French dioceses (Paris, Lyons, &c), as one of the few exceptions of old hymns not supplanted. It is appointed for Vespers in the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin, Officium parvum beatae Mariae, Paris, Lyons, Le Mans. &c.; some, as Paris, Le Mans, &c, having it also in the Saturday Office of the Blessed Virgin, Officium beatae Mariae in Sabbato, and in Feasts which have no special or proper hymns. In the Roman Breviary it is the Hymn for First and 2nd vespers in the Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary; also in the Office of the B. V. M. on Saturdays, and in the Little Office, Officium parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis, at First vespers, there being no 2nd vespers in these two latter cases.

The hymn is found in three manuscripts of the 11th century, in the British Museum (Harl. 2961, f. 241; Vesp. D. xii. f. 63; Jul. A. vi. f. 56); and in the Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 1851, p. 76, it is printed from an 11th century manuscript at Durham. It is also given in Bässler, Königsfeld, Simrock, Wackernagel, i. No. 85, and various modern Roman Catholic collections. [Rev.W. A. Shoults, B.D.]
Translations in common use:—
1. Hail, thou Star of Ocean. By E. Caswall, first published in his Lyra Catholica, 1849, p. 197, where it began "Gentle Star of Ocean;" and again, in an altered form, in his Hymns & Poems, 1873, p. 105, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines. It is given in a large number of Roman Catholic collections in Great Britain and America, often in an altered form, and sometimes beginning, "Hail, bright star of ocean."
2. Hail, Sea Star, we bless thee. This is by J. R. Beste in his Church Hymns (Roman Catholic), 1849. Its use is not extensive.
3. Hail, thou resplendent Star. In A Selection of Catholic Hymns, Glasgow, H. Margey, 1861, No. 41, the St. Patrick's Catholic Hymn Book, 1862, No. 60, and other collections this translation is given without signature. It is based upon Caswall.
Translations not in common use:—
1. Hail, Ocean Star. E. Caswall, 1873.
2. The Star which o'er the sea. J. W. Hewett, 1859.
3. Hail! Star of Ocean, Mary. Chambers, ii. 1866.
4. Hail! Star of the sea, &c. (Prose). Mrs. Charles, 1858.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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