« SALUTIS AETERNAE DATOR ». — Hymn of Lauds in the Office of the feast of All Saints, by an unknown author; it appears in manuscripts of the ninth century.
It consists of a sequence of litanic-inspired invocations to Christ, the Virgin, the Angels, the Apostles, the Patriarchs, the Prophets, St John the Baptist, St Peter, the martyrs, the confessors, and the virgins; finally, a prayer to all the blessed possessors of the heavenly kingdom, that they may lend force to our prayers.
BIBL.: G. G. Belli, Gli inni del Breviario tradotti, Rome 1856, p. 338; L. Venturi, Gli inni della Chiesa, Florence 1883, 3rd ed., p. 374; C. Albin, La poëzie du Bréviaire, Lyon n.d., pp. 374–781; A. Mirra, Gli inni del Bréviario romano, Naples 1947, p. 242.