De Martyribus Ant.

O victoriosissimi triumphatores,

qui in effusione sanguinis vestri

salutantes ædificationem Ecclesiæ,

intrastis sanguinem Agni,

epulantes cum vitulo occiso.

O quam magnam mercedem habetis,

quia corpora vestra viventes despexistis,

imitantes Agnum Dei, ornantes pœnam eius,

in qua vos introduxit in restaurationem hæreditatis.

De Martyribus Resp.

Vos flores rosarum,

qui in effusione sanguinis vestri beati estis,

in maximis gaudiis redolentibus

et sudantibus in emptione,

quæ fluxit de interiori mente consilii,

manentis ante ævum:

[R] In illo, in quo non erat constitutio a capite.

Sit honor in consortio vestro,

qui estis instrumentum Ecclesiæ,

et qui in vulneribus vestri sanguinis undatis.

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Antiphon for the Martyrs

O most victorious conquerors,

Who in the shedding of your blood

Greeted the upbuilding of the Church,

You have entered into the blood of the Lamb,

Feasting on the slaughtered calf:

O how great a reward you have,

Because you despised your living bodies,

Imitating the Lamb of God, embellishing his pain,

In which he has brought you into the restoration of your inheritance.

Responsory for the Martyrs

Blessed are you roses

In the shedding of your blood,

Fragrant with supreme delight,

Distilling the purchase that flowed

From the inner mind of the purpose

Abiding before time:

[R] In the uncreated one who had no beginning.

Honor be to your company,

You are an instrument for the Church,

And you surge in the wounds of your bleeding.

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