Sanctus
See also: sanctus
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Borrowed from Latin sānctus (“holy”), the opening word of the prayer in that language. The prayer is taken from Isaiah 6:3 and Matthew 21:9.
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Sanctus
- A prayer in Christian liturgy, beginning “Holy, holy, holy …” and typically said or sung as a hymn shortly before the anaphora.
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Sanctus m
- Sanctus
- 1981, H. E. G. Wegman, “Une Anaphore incomplète? Les Fragments sur Papyrus Strasbourg Gr. 254”, in R. van den Broek, M. J. Vermaseren, editors, Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions, page 432:
- Le point douteux est la fin du texte : une doxologie ‘finale’ avant le Sanctus.
- The point that is dubious is the end of the text: a ‘final’ doxology before the Sanctus.