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Requiem

Requiem

Requiem

a musical mass for the dead in the Church of Rome. so called from the words of the Introit, Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Give them eternal rest, O Lord, etc. (2Es 2:34-35); and the antiphon for the psalms in place of the Gloria Patri

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature