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11. With those same fingers with which thou didst touch 
Christ’s sacred side thou givest to the worthy the Sacrament 
and refusest it to the unworth 
And this happens openly every year at thy feast! 
hae such wonder as thine chances from no other saint. 
13. © prince so glorious, O si oh sheng and dear to 
me,’ grant that, though steeped in , [ vet may be devont 
to thee. I honour thee and love edi “T seek nee and eall on 
thee. 
14. Strengthen me in chastity, in faith, in hope, and 
charity. Obtain that I may so serve God that from perdition 
[ be saved. 
15. By the way of truth lead me to the life of light. As 
soon as my last breath I vield, may God, sole true, grant me 
this boon. Amen 

Mer. Zaleski states that the Bollandists published this 
hymn without any indication as to its origin and date. This 
is not correct. They say that the hymn was found in a co- 
dex of the Bollandian Museum, the codex being an gnc: 
or copy coming from the Monastery of St. Savio our’s of t 
Cistercian Order. Written in the 17th century and saliniee 
with the original, it contains a Kalendarium Sanctorum Ordi- 
nis S, ea cti P. N.. collected in the 15th century, and 
some hymns, one of which (Salve, Abba monachorum), appears 
to be sinsieiit: while the others were written at the end of the 
14th century, “ as will be seen below from the names of the 
authors.” No names of ‘authors’ are given, but only the 
names of the Saints forming the object of the hymns, so that 
the question of the antiquity of our hymn to St Thomas is 
not, as far as I can see, touched.3 
gr. Zaleski judged that our hymn is not older than the 
end of the 9th century,* and that the stanzas which we have 



ing t ilscdetvin orthodox, — have boasted that there were none but 
orthodox Christians at Myla ie, are Jews, of whom there were many 
t : natural would be the supposition 
that all who settled at Mylapore, pereick: sews; and pagans, yielded to 
the belief of the once unbeliev veces 
: Et (not ex) hoe fit in viecoveiaiies says t 2 Bol landist tex 
“gr. Zaleski misses the sed tel m of the Bollandist text in 
; 13. 
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