Vatican II mandated that the Church s treasury of sacred music is to be preserved and cultivated with great care in particular Gregorian chant and Latin were to retain pride of place That s the last most Catholic heard of either But a half century before Vatican II the great priest liturgist Adrian Fortescue was doing for his own parishioners what the Church would later demand How By compiling the greatest Latin hymns of the ages with his own exquisite translations into one volume for singing and meditation This new facsimile edition reproduces the 1913 edition as set by Stanley Morison the finest typographer of his time It also includes Fr Fortescue s original Preface and a new Afterword by Michael Davies Please note that this book contains the words only no musical notation