Oh Cruz Fiel y Venerable

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¡Oh cruz fiel y venerable!

Author: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus; Translator: Anonymous
Tune: PICARDY
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 ¡Oh cruz fiel y venerable!
Árbol noble del perdón;
Sin igual es tu follaje,
Sin igual tu fruto y flor;
Dulce leño, dulces clavos,
Que sostienen al Señor.

2 ¡Canta, pues, oh lengua mía!
La batalla del Señor;
Que resuenen alabanzas
En honor del vencedor;
¡Cómo conquistó la muerte!
Nuestro Santo Redentor.

3 Con espinas coronado
Y transido de dolor,
Una lanza ha traspasado
Su bendito corazón;
Fuente abriendo, por nosotros,
De divina redención.

4 Ya termina la gran obra,
Que su amor determinó,
Encarnado, para darnos
Vida eterna y salvación;
Ofreciendo el cuerpo y sangre,
En el leño de la cruz.

Source: Flor Y Canto (2nd ed.) #479

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Author: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus

Venantius Honorius Clematianus Fortunatus (b. Cenada, near Treviso, Italy, c. 530; d. Poitiers, France, 609) was educated at Ravenna and Milan and was converted to the Christian faith at an early age. Legend has it that while a student at Ravenna he contracted a disease of the eye and became nearly blind. But he was miraculously healed after anointing his eyes with oil from a lamp burning before the altar of St. Martin of Tours. In gratitude Fortunatus made a pilgrimage to that saint's shrine in Tours and spent the rest of his life in Gaul (France), at first traveling and composing love songs. He developed a platonic affection for Queen Rhadegonda, joined her Abbey of St. Croix in Poitiers, and became its bishop in 599. His Hymns far all th… Go to person page >

Translator: Anonymous

In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries. Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	¡Oh cruz fiel y venerable!
Title:	Oh Cruz Fiel y Venerable
Latin Title:	Crux fidelis, inter omnes
Author:	Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
Translator:	Anonymous
Meter:	8.7.8.7.8.7
Source:	Tradicional
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Public Domain