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Stabat Mater
This text, Hymn 159 in The Hymnal 1982, was probably composed by a Franciscan in the first half of the thirteenth century. In the fourteenth century it was sung by the flagellants as they scourged themselves in their processions. During the fifteenth century it made its way into a few missals as a sequence hymn. Its use in the Roman Catholic Church was suppressed at the Council of Trent. But Stabat Mater entered the Roman missal in 1727 as the sequence for the Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, observed on Sept. 15. Stabat Mater has also frequently been used as part of the liturgy of the Way of the Cross. A translation from Hymns Ancient and Modern, an amended form of that of Edward Caswall in his Lyra Catholica (1849), entered the American Episcopal Hymnal at the 1892 revision. The BOS suggests that at the Way of the Cross selected stanzas may be sung at the entrance of the ministers and as the procession approaches the first station. See Sequence.
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