The gosos or goccius or goigs are a kind of devotional and paraliturgical songs sang pertaining to the folk tradition that are dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, or a saint. They are typical
Goigs to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, printed in 1810 in Perpinyà (Northern Catalonia) in the Catalan language.
: Book of Ceremonies by Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (book I, ch. 82): Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. Rep. I 17, f. 148r.