DE DONIS DEI

OF THE GIFTS OF GOD. – A formula often used, above all, in liturgical furnishings and in ancient Christian inscriptions both in the West and in the East (τὰ σὰ ἐκ τῶν σῶν προσφέρομεν).

It is also found in a Jewish sepulchral inscription from Auch (De Saulcy, in Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres, 1869, p. 172). The formula De donis Dei et Christi or De donis Dei et Sce (De) Genitricis Mari(a)e, or et sēi Iohannis Baptist(a)e, or et Dom(i)ni Petri, or et beati Pauli is often encountered. At Iulia Concordia (Portogruaro), however, one finds instead de data Dei or de Dei datis (CIL, V, 1718, 8677).

In the Unde et memores of the Canon of the Mass, one reads: Offermus tibi Domine... de tuis donis ac datis.