Spiritual songs > Hymns to the Mother of God
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The text of this hymn to the Mother of God is that of Father William Levkulic, who also provided an English translation, O Mother most pure. Another English version, Purest Mother, was published in the Marian Hymnal (1984).
Sources
This hymn was printed in the Užhorod Pisennik (1913) as hymn number 162, with 7 verses. The hymn is credited to the prayerbook Chlib Duši, published in Užhorod in 1893.
Six verses from the Pisennik were published (in Latin letters) in a small booklet of pilgrimage hymns from the Sisters of Saint Basil in 1974.
In 1969, Father Stephen Papp printed three verses of this hymn, with music, on page 96 of his collection Duchovňi Pisňi.
The first and third verses from the Pisennik were printed in Father William Levkulic's The Divine Liturgy: A Book of Prayer (1978) as hymn number 19.
A single verse, with music, were published in the Marian Hymnal (1984) on page 34.