Enciclopedia Cattolica

SALUTIS HUMANAE SATOR

Creator of Human Salvation

Volume X · p. 1013 · 1953

English translation · Testo originale italiano

«SALUTIS HUMANAE SATOR». - Inno dei Vespri e delle Lodi nell'Ufficio dell'Ascensione.
«SALUTIS HUMANAE SATOR». - Inno dei Vespri e delle Lodi nell'Ufficio dell'Ascensione.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

«SALUTIS HUMANAE SATOR». – Hymn of Vespers and Lauds in the Office of the Ascension.

Originally «Jesu, nostra redemptio», of unknown authorship, it appears in manuscripts from the first half of the 9th century. The text was later transformed and reduced to its present form.

The poet accompanies Jesus as, having completed the work of redemption, He returns to heaven.

BIBL.: G. G. Belli, Gli inni del Breviario tradotti, Roma 1856, p. 174; G. S. Pimont, Les hymnes du Bréviaire romain, III, Parigi 1884, pp. 107-12; C. Albin, La poésie du Bréviaire, Lione s. a., pp. 185-89.