Sancti venite

[1] "Sancti venite" was composed at Bangor Abbey in the 7th century AD, making it the oldest known Eucharistic hymn.

[2] It was carried to Bobbio Abbey and was first published by Ludovico Antonio Muratori in his Anecdota Latina ex Ambrosianæ Bibliothecæ codicibus (1697–98), when he discovered it in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

[3] According to a legend recorded in An Leabhar Breac, the hymn was first sung by angels at St. Seachnall's Church, Dunshaughlin, after Secundinus had reconciled with his uncle Saint Patrick.

[4] Sancti venite, Christi corpus sumite, Sanctum bibentes, quo redempti sanguinem.

Lucis indultor et salvator omnium Praeclaram sanctis largitus est gratiam.