DEUS TUORUM MILITUM. - Hymn of the Vespers for the common of a martyr, composed toward the end of the 6th century.
The Christian martyr, scorner of earthly joys and lover of heavenly ones, for which he preferred 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 that is also echoed in the fourth.