Constitues eos (Gradual)

General information

Gradual for feasts of the SS. Peter & Paul and St Peter’s chains, also sometimes found in the Common of Saints: the Alleluia verse following Nunes Garcia's setting is one assigned in the Liber Usualis to Bartholomew the Apostle.
Source of text is Psalm 44:17-18 (Vulgate)

Settings by composers

• Jean de Bonmarché SATT.STTB, SATT.ATTB or SATT.ATBB — 44:17b and 44:18a only (no Versus)
• William Byrd AATTBB
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia SATB (adds Alleluia verse Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus laudat Domine.)

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Henry Bird Collins — Gradual & Alleluia St. Peter & St. Paul

Text and translations

Latin text 44:17b  Constitues eos principes super omnem terram: 44:18a  Memores erunt nominis tui, Domine. Versus 44:17a  Pro patribus tuis nati sunt tibi filii; 44:18b  propterea populi confitebuntur tibi. [Alleluia; Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus laudat Domine.]

English translation 45:17b  Thou shalt make them princes in all lands. 45:18a  They will remember thy Name, O Lord. Versus 45:17a  Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children; 45:18b  therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee. [Alleluia; The glorious company of the apostles praise thee, O Lord. Alleluia.]