Cabeza ensangrentada

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Translator: George P. Simmonds

Used pseudonyms G Paul S., J. Paul Simon, and J. Pablo Símon  Go to person page >

Author: St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, saint, abbot, and doctor, fills one of the most conspicuous positions in the history of the middle ages. His father, Tecelin, or Tesselin, a knight of great bravery, was the friend and vassal of the Duke of Burgundy. Bernard was born at his father's castle on the eminence of Les Fontaines, near Dijon, in Burgundy, in 1091. He was educated at Chatillon, where he was distinguished for his studious and meditative habits. The world, it would be thought, would have had overpowering attractions for a youth who, like Bernard, had all the advantages that high birth, great personal beauty, graceful manners, and irresistible influence could give, but, strengthened in the resolve by night visions of his mother (who had died in 1… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Cabeza ensangrentada, Herida por mi bien
Title: Cabeza ensangrentada
Latin Title: Salve caput cruentatum
Translator: George P. Simmonds
Author: St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
Language: Spanish
Copyright: Traducción © renovado 1967 George P. Simmonds. Propiedad de Elizabeth R. Donaldson

Tune

PASSION CHORALE (Hassler)

The tune HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN has been associated with Gerhardt's text ["O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden"] since they were first published together in 1656. The tune's first association with a sacred text was its attachment in 1913 [sic: should read 1613] to Christoph Knoll's funeral text "Herzl…

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Cáliz de Bendiciones #139

Celebremos Su Gloria #203

El Himnario Bautista de la Gracia #172

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Mil Voces para Celebrar #139

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