"Segne du, Maria" (Bless you, Mary) is a Christian Marian hymn in German with text by Cordula Wöhler in 1870, and a melody composed by Karl Kindsmüller and published in 1916, after the author's death.

[1][2] She was raised in a Lutheran pastor's household, but planned to convert to Catholicism that year and was expelled from her home.

[3] Karl Kindsmüller, a priest, teacher, and lecturer at Regensburg's school of church music, composed a melody in 1916 or earlier.

The last lines say: "Lass in deinem Segen / Tag und Nacht mich ruhn" (Let me rest in your blessing day and night).

He was a sceptic as a young man, but came to respect the song when more and more severely ill people asked him to sing it for them, and to repeat it when they died.