FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...

Byzantine music. Anastaseos imera (Ode) ; Doxology ; O quando in cruce (Latin version) --Byzantine and Ambrosian hymns. Ote to stavro (Greek version) ; Veni redemptor gentium --Pre-Gregorian music.