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O Salutaris Hostia [Lat.,=O saving victim], hymn to the Host, one of the two hymns regularly sung at the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church. The other hymn is Tantum ergo. O Salutaris is really the last two stanzas of a Corpus Christi hymn, Verbum supernum prodiens, probably written by St. Thomas Aquinas.

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O Salutaris Hostia (O saving victim). RC hymn sung at Benediction and some other services to plainsong melody or one of many comp. settings.

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O Salutaris Hostia (Lat., ‘O Saving Victim’). The last two verses of St Thomas Aquinas's hymn ‘Verbum supernum prodiens’. In the RC Church it is often sung during the service of Benediction.

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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "O Salutaris Hostia." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 28 Nov. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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