medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> The text is traditionally attributed to Wipo of Burgundy (d. 1050).
> It is one of
> the four sequences retained after the Council of Trent. It has a
> wonderful
> melody.
>
> The version Bill gave is the modern, sanitized version of the
> sequence; it lacks
> the paired line of the last versicle, before 'Scimus Christum':
>
> Credendum est magis soli Marie veraci, quam Judeorum turbe fallaci.
Indeed, though not as modern as all that. According to Raby, "The
Victimae Paschali was deprived of its sixth strophe when the Roman
Missal was revised in the sixteenth century" - Presumably, by the
Council of Trent. I do not know what problem Trent had with the
strophe. I would like to think it was removed to avoid gratuitous
offence to the Jews, but I rather doubt that was the motive. The
reference is to Matthew 28:15, where the watchmen report to the chief
priests that the body of Jesus has gone missing, and are instructed to
give it out that the disiples had taken away the body while the guards
was sleeping, "and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews
until this day." The point of the strophe is that the message of Mary
Madgalene is to be believed in preference to this false report.
Bill.
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