This is the most ancient surviving hymn to Our Lady. Preces Thesaurus says it’s indulgenced - double your merit!

I met this hymn at Maternal Heart where they sing it after every Mass. Because some of the people who started the rebirth of the Maternal Heart church as a Latin Mass community were into the whole Benedictine thing, so they used the Monastic version of the antiphon - the Antiphonale Monasticum not the Liber Usualis. The two versions have a lot in common, but I’m going with the Monastic here as the influence of that Sydney based Latin Mass has been enormous and thinking of how the congregation there joins in with gusto at the end of each Mass - the proportion of people in Sydney who can sing this piece probably learned the Monastic version from Maternal Heart.

And the Monastic is the older version.

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Sub tuum praesídium confúgimus Sancta Dei Génitrix

Sub tuum praesídium confúgimus Sancta {Dei Génitrix}

under thy patronage {we fly} holy {Mother of God}

Under thy patronage we fly, O Holy Mother of God

nostras deprecatiónes ne despícias in necessitátibus

nostras deprecatiónes ne despícias in necessitátibus

our prayers don't despise in necessities

Don't reject our prayers in our necessities

sed a periculus cunctis libera nos semper

sed a periculus cunctis libera nos semper

but from danger all free us always

but deliver us always from all dangers

Virgo gloriosa et benedicta

Virgo gloriosa et benedicta

Virgin glorious and blessed

O glorious and blessed Virgin