DEUS TUORUM MILITUM

DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (God of Your Soldiers) takes its name from a Latin Office hymn for martyrs and confessors, and the tune is drawn from the 'Antiphoner' published at Grenoble, France in 1753. This collection was part of the broader movement of Diocesan or Neogallican plainchant reform that flourished in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as various French dioceses produced their own distinctive liturgical books rather than adhering strictly to Roman usage. The Grenoble Ant

Stanza Arc

The narrative or theological arc traced by this tune's stanzas: Christ's forty-day fast as pattern for believer's Lenten struggle against sin, culminating in Easter resurrection hope

Associated Hymn Texts (16)