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HAVPCD200 – The Coming of Augustine A.D. 597 – ‘Not Angles, but Angels’
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| Disk Title | The Coming of Augustine A.D. 597 – ‘Not Angles, but Angels’ |
| Gregorian Chant from San Gregorio, Rome | |
| Choir | Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge |
| Conductor | Mary Berry |
| Location | San Gregorio al Celio, Rome |
| Date Recorded | April 1997 |
| Audio Tracks | 25 |
| Trk. | Title | Audio Sample |
| 8 | Videns Rome vir beatus |
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| 25 | Exultet in hac die |
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The mission of Augustine from Rome to England: In the spring of A.D. 597 St Augustine of Canterbury first set foot in the south-east corner of England. There is an English Heritage cross in a field in Ebbsfleet, Kent, that marks the spot. Augustine was commissioned by Pope Gregory I – Gregory the Great – to take the Good News of the Gospels to the pagan Anglo-Saxons, who had invaded and colonized much of Eastern Britain, and to bring a new ministry to the scattered Christian flock that survived across the country following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 01:03 | Gaudeamus | |
| 2 | 09:23 | Adoremus | |
| 3 | 04:42 | Anglorum iam apostolus | |
| 4 | 00:29 | Erat ei pro omnibus | |
| 5 | 00:27 | Exaudivit ergo Deus | |
| 6 | 00:33 | Ecce gens | |
| 7 | 02:40 | Fulgebat in venerando | |
| 8 | 02:44 | Videns Rome vir beatus | |
| 9 | 04:11 | Dum oraret in obscuro | |
| 10 | 00:55 | Quomodo multiplicasti | |
| 11 | 00:30 | Dominus de summo celo | |
| 12 | 00:40 | Sex struxit in Sicilia | |
| 13 | 02:25 | Propter intolerabiles | |
| 14 | 02:04 | Orante beatissimo | |
| 15 | 03:00 | Vere felicem presulem | |
| 16 | 02:31 | Sanctus Papa Gregorius | |
| 17 | 02:05 | Hodie preclarissimus | |
| 18 | 05:51 | O Pastor apostolice | |
| 19 | 01:41 | Deprecamur te | |
| 20 | 01:34 | Vidi aquam | |
| 21 | 03:24 | Christo regi laudes | |
| 22 | 07:20 | Regnas Augustine | |
| 23 | 01:37 | Hodie Anglorum apostolus | |
| 24 | 01:39 | Aule rutile | |
| 25 | 01:49 | Exultet in hac die |
Apart from the Invitatory, which comes from the Common of a Confessor Bishop, most of this music, of considerable originality, is taken from two rhyming offices in honour of St Gregory the Great. One is by an 11th-century Alsation Pope, St Leo IX (1002-54), the other probably by an unknown monk of Canterbury, who re-composed the antiphons, making them more directly relevant to England and to the English.
