Vexilla regis prodeunt
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Vexilla regis prodeunt is a Latin hymn in long metre by the Christian poet and saint Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers. It takes its title from its incipit.
Detail from a choirbook leaf, Italy c.1400-1420
The English Hymnal
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The English Hymnal is a hymn book which was published in 1906 for the Church of England by Oxford University Press. It was edited by the clergyman and writer Percy Dearmer and the composer and music h
Vexilla regis prodeunt
…Banners Forward Go") in William Henry Monk's 1861 hymnbook, Hymns Ancient and Modern. In 1906 Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams included it in The English Hymnal, and the hymn was retained in the successor volume, The New English Hymnal (1986). In North America, the hymn is also published in Lutheran Worship…
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Percy Dearmer (c. 1890)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1913)