Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. III, 1949 Liturgy Hymns and sequences

Caelestis Urbs Jerusalem

CAELESTIS URBS IERUSALEM

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CAELESTIS URBS IERUSALEM. - Hymn of Vespers for the feast of the Dedication of a Church, of lofty poetic and mystical inspiration. In the heavenly Jerusalem is represented the Church triumphant, of which the Church that struggles in the world and lives in expectation of divine peace is the preparation. The sublime visions of the Apoc. (ch. 21) animate the verse that symbolizes in the heavenly City, built with the rarest stones and adorned with the most precious gems, the edifice consecrated as a worthy dwelling of God. The hymn, which is found in manuscripts of the 8th and 9th centuries, was completely reworked under Urban VIII, and proves to be composed of six iambic dimeters in place of the original trochaic dimeters. Silverio Mattei

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By Silverio Mattei

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), coll. 273–274.

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Mattei, Silverio. “Caelestis Urbs Ierusalem.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 273–274. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/caelestis-urbs-ierusalem.

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Mattei, Silverio. “Caelestis Urbs Ierusalem.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 273–274. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/caelestis-urbs-ierusalem.

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@incollection{ec3_caelestis_urbs_ierusalem,
  author    = {Mattei, Silverio},
  title     = {Caelestis Urbs Ierusalem},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {273--274},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/caelestis-urbs-ierusalem}
}

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