O crux benedicta

Settings by composers

• Ambrosian chant (adds Gloria Patri)
• Carlo Gesualdo SATTB (replaces alleluia with variant 1)
• Claudio Merulo SATTB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Giulio Belli — O crux benedicta!
• Scipione Dentice — O crux beata
• Claudio Monteverdi — O crux benedicta

Text and translations

Latin text O crux benedicta! Quae sola fuisti digna, portare Regem coelorum, et Dominum, alleluia. Variant 1 defende nos omni malo.

English translation O Blessed Cross, which only was worthy to bear the Lord and King of heaven, alleluia. Variant 1 defend us from all evil.