Hail Holy Queen (Salve Regina)
Also known as: Salve Regina Salve, Regina
English Text
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us; and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
Translation tradition: Traditional English
Latin Text
Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;
vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Evae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia ergo, advocata nostra,
illos tuos misericordes oculos
ad nos converte.
Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.
Scripture: Luke 1:28–33
When to pray: Closes each full Rosary; sung at Compline from Pentecost to Advent; at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
History & Background
The Salve Regina is one of the four Marian antiphons of the Roman Rite, sung at the close of Compline from the Saturday after Pentecost until the Saturday before Advent. Its authorship has been debated for centuries; medieval tradition attributed it to Hermanus Contractus (c. 1054), a monk of Reichenau. Other candidates proposed include Adhémar de Monteil, Bishop of Le Puy, and Pope Gregory II. Its precise origin remains uncertain, but it was in widespread use by the 11th century. The Dominicans adopted it as a close to the Divine Office in 1221, and it entered the Roman Breviary under Pope Pius V (1568). It concludes every traditional Rosary.
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Source
https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html verbatim