Chant from the times of crusaders: O pastor animarum - Oh shepherd of souls (Lyric video)

Please support for our channel : (you can donate as little as 1$ ): ---- Special thanks to our patrons on Patreon and SubscribeStar, whom with their contributions helped our work. ---- About the chant: Abbess Hildegard of Bingen presents a number of paradoxes to the “modern“ mind. She was a woman in a man’s world, yet she rose to command an abbey and wrote political advice to Holy Roman Emperors. O pastor animarum’s text simply and directly prays to the divine Son, whom Hildegard names “shepherd of which we all have been created.“ She asks this shepherd to liberate the pray-er from misery and languishing. Despite the simple and brief nature of the text, appropriate for a liturgical antiphon, the poetess deliberately invokes the most splendid antiphons of the church year, the great “O“ Antiphons sung before Christmas. Her music, as well, transcends the mundane. In the first seven notes, Hildegard makes a characteristically dramatic leap u