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Salve Regina

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Salve Regina (säl`vā rājē`nə) [Lat.,=hail, queen], prayer or hymn to the Virgin Mary, traditionally said, usually in the vernacular, after Low Mass and also, during part of the year, at vespers (in Latin) as an antiphon. It begins, "Hail, holy queen, mother of mercy."

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Coming into the Cathedral of Speyer on Christmas Eve, he heard the monks chanting the Salve Regina as a processional.
Martha Rose, a professor of special education at Salve Regina University, told me.
It's helped me to understand the truth of a prayer like the Salve Regina, which speaks of our being "poor banished children of Eve," a prayer that never touched my heart until I prayed it behind the walls of a jail.
 
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