Te Deum

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Te Deum. A Latin hymn to the Father and the Son, in rhythmical prose, beginning Te Deum laudamus (‘We praise thee, O God’). According to tradition, it was a spontaneous composition of Ambrose and Augustine, who sang it antiphonally on the occasion of the baptism of Augustine by Ambrose. In fact, it is evidently a composition of at least three parts, only loosely connected.

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