>From the crusading fringe:
Veni Creator Spiritus was a favorite during the crusades. It was sung
from the Venetian ships during the Fourth crusade, and used in
petitional processions during times of crisis, and as a triumphal
entry song into the captured Damietta during the Fifth crusade (in
this case its use as a hymn for the translation of relics might have
come into play as the city was being cleansed and made 'fit' for
Christian worship). I imagine the crusaders found these two stanzas
particularly pertinent:
accende lumen sensibus,
infunde amorem cordibus,
infirma nostri corporis
virtute firmans perpeti.
hostem repellas longius,
pacemque dones protinus;
ductore sic te praevio
vitemus omne noxium.
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