Costanzo Festa - Inviolata, integra et casta (eight-voice motet)
(ca. 1530)

Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria,
que es effecta fulgida celi porta.
O mater alma Christi carissima,
suscipe pia laudum preconia.

Nostra ut pura pectora sint et corpora
Que nunc flagitant devota corda et ora.
Tua per precata dulcisona
Nobis concedas veniam per secula.

O benigna, o regina, o Maria,
Que sola inviolata permansisti. 		Inviolate, whole, and chaste art Thou, Mary,
who art become the gleaming gate of heaven.
O dearest nurturing Mother of Christ,
accept our pious prayers of praise.

That our hearts and bodies might be pure
our devout hearts and mouths now entreat.
By Your sweet-sounding prayers,
grant us forgiveness forever.

O blessed, O Queen, O Mary,
You alone have remained inviolate.

POMERIUM
Alexander Blachly, Director

 on CD “Musica Vaticana”
© 1998 Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv







Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina 46, 134v-137