« IN MONTE OLIVIS CONSITO ». – Hymn of Matins for the feast of the Holy Rosary, composed by Fr. T. A. Ricchini, Dominican, and already entered in the Office of the same Order in 1825.
They are five stanzas celebrating the five Sorrowful Mysteries: the sweating of blood at Gethsemane, the scourging, the crowning with thorns, the journey to Calvary, and the Crucifixion on Golgotha.
BIBL.: V. Terreno, Gli inni del Breviario romano, Mondovì 1932, p. 266; A. Mirra, Gli inni del Breviario romano, Napoli 1947, p. 179; A. Walz, Compendium historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum, 2nd ed., Roma 1948, p. 486. Silverio Mattei