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Thomas of Celano , fl. 13th cent., Italian Franciscan friar. One of the first companions of St. Francis , he wrote the two principal lives of St. Francis, one for Gregory IX and the other for the minister general of the order. He was an early Franciscan missionary to Germany. He probably composed the sequence Dies irae and its celebrated plainsong.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Thomas of Celano (c.1190–1260), the earliest biographer of St Francis. He wrote two Lives, one in 1228 and the other in 1246–7, and the Tractatus de Miraculis S. Francisci in 1250–3; in modern times their historicity has been challenged. He also wrote the ‘Legend’ of St Clare and, according to an uncertain tradition, the Dies Irae.

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Dies Irae (Day of Wrath). A section of the Requiem Mass. The poem is probably by Thomas of Celano (d c.1250). The plainsong tune has frequently been introduced into instr. mus., as in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre, Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody, etc. Settings of the Requiem by Verdi, Berlioz, and others contain vivid depictions of the Dies Irae.

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