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Dies Irae
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- sequence
- Part of
- mass for the dead
- Has part
- Lacrimosa
- Author
- Thomas of Celano
- Creator
- Thomas of Celano
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- Latin
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Centre panel from Memling's triptych Last Judgment (c. 1467–1471)
"Dies irae" ( Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈdi.es ˈi.re]; "the Day of Wrath") is a Latin sequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200–1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome. The sequence dates from the 13th century at the latest, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to St. Gregory the Great (d. 604), Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), or Bonaventure (1221–1274).
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