«SIC PATRES VITAM PERAGUNT IN UMBRA». — Hymn of Lauds on the feast of the Seven Holy Founders of the Servites, continuing the other from Matins: Bella dum late... Its author was Fr. Galletti of the same Order, and it was revised by Leo XIII.
The poet extols the deeds of the seven noble Florentines who, in solitude, steel themselves for the struggles they will wage after attaining a high degree of perfection.
BIBL.: V. Terreno, Gli inni dell'Ufficio divino, Mondovì 1932, p. 182; A. Mirra, Gli inni del Breviario romano, Napoli 1947, p. 194.