![« SANCTORUM MERITIS INCLITA GAUDIA ». - Inno dei Vespri nel Comune di più martiri, scritto da Rabano Mauro (cf. C. M. Dreves, Anatecta hymn., 50 [1907], p. 204 sg.).](/images/volume-10/page_1036_image_1.png)
The hymn opens with an urgent invitation to celebrate the glory of the martyrs, victorious in the struggles of the world; then, in three further strophes, their heroic deeds are extolled as soldiers of Christ who fought and gave their lives for Him.
BIBL.: G. G. Belli, Gli inni del Breviario tradotti, Roma 1856, p. 364; U. Chevalier, Poésie liturgique, Rhythme et histoire, Paris 1893, p. 117; C. Albin, Poésie du Breviare, Lyon n.d., p. 404. Silverio Mattei