Christe qui sedes Olympo

Christe, qui sedes Olympo. Jean-Baptiste de Santeuil* (1630-1697). First published in the Cluniac Breviary of 1686, and then in Santeuil’s Hymni Sacri et Novi  (1689), for the Feast of St Michael and all angels, 'XXIX Septembris'. In 1689 the first lines were: Christe, summi Rex Olympi,Par Deo Patri DeusQuem tremiscunt intuendoSanctiores Spiritus: It had seven stanzas. It was translated by William Palmer* in his Short Poems and Hymns (1845) as ‘Christ, in highest heaven enthronèd’*, a first line changed in A&M (1904) to ‘Christ, the highest heav’ns enthrone...