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thorlacus efficiat: cuius uita laudabilis et meritum nobis ad ueniam
prosi[n]t exemplum. Per.
Com. Beatus seruus.
Postcom. Sancta tua beati thorlaci confessoris tui atque pontificis a
cunctis tueantur aduersis. Per.
Some words have been left out; the prayer may originally have been something like
‘Sancta tua per intercessionem b. thorlaci. .. nos a cunctis...’
The sequence, with its emphasis on the agmina uexatorum, flocking
to the Saint’s limina, must have been written for Skålholt Cathedral.
Reykjavik Lbs. fragm. 25 (see above, p. 57) contains a St. Thorlak
Mass, not for his Natale, 23 December, but for his Ordinatio, 2 July,
as bishop of Skålholt in 1178. Besides, his Translatio, 20 July (in
1198), was celebrated in Iceland from 1237 onwards. See Plate 35.
Commemoratio de beato Thorlaco.. .
Or. Deus qui nobis beatissimum confessorem tuum Thorlacum
gloriosum patronum et electum antistitem tribuisti. concede propitius ut
ipsius in cunctis necessitatibus nostris suffulti presidijs et presenti
prosperitate perfrui mereamur et eterna. Per.
The secret and the postcommunion are identical with those of the manual fragment,
except for ‘intercessionibus’ in the secret, where the manual has ‘precibus’.
MS AM 241b IX fol., f. lOr, contains a St. Thorlak collect, copied by
Årni Magnusson from a small-sized vellum, where it had been added
by a second hånd:
Deus qui populo tuo ætemæ salutis beatum torlacum confessorem
tuum atque pontificem ministrum tribuisti: præsta quesumus, ut quem
doctorem vitæ habuimus in terris, intercessorem semper habere mere-
amur in cælis.
= Sp 296*; Deshusses, Les Messes d’Alcuin, no. 26 Natale Sancti Martini
confessoris.
This collect is mentioned in a collection of the Saint’s miracles written c. 1300 or
later; see Biskupa sogur, 1 (1858), p. 379. In the Nidaros Missal it is used for St.
Thorlak’s December feast (MN p. 394).
The earliest mention of a prayer where St. Thorlak is invoked as
intercessor comes, not from the service books, but from the miracles of