« DEUS TUORUM MILITUM ». — Hymn of Vespers for the Common of a Martyr, written toward the end of the sixth century.
The Christian martyr, despiser of earthly joys and lover of heavenly ones, for which he chose torments and shed his blood, is celebrated in a colorless and insipid manner. The first stanza is a prayer to God for the forgiveness of sins, a theme also taken up in the fourth.
BIBL.: G. Belli, Gli inni del Breviario, Rome 1856, p. 350; G. M. Dreves, Analecta hymnica medii aevi, Leipzig 1888, p. 76; V. Terreno, Gli inni dell'Ufficio divino, Mondovì 1932, p. 308; A. Mirra, Gli inni del Breviario romano, Naples 1947, p. 249. Silverio Mattei