Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Easter from King's 2022 is available to download: bit.ly/efk22

Ave verum corpus from BBC Easter from King's 2022. Easter from King's is broadcast in the UK on BBC Two on 16 April 2022.

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Matthew Martin (organ)
Directed by Daniel Hyde

Distributed under licence from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Ave verum corpus, natum
de Maria Virgine,
vere passum, immolatum
in cruce pro homine
cujus latus perforatum
fluxit aqua et sanguine:
esto nobis prægustatum
in mortis examine.

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Hail, true Body, born
of the Virgin Mary,
having truly suffered, sacrificed
on the cross for mankind,
from whose pierced side
water and blood flowed:
Be for us a foretaste [of the Heavenly banquet]
in the trial of death!

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