Te deprecante corporum

Saint of sweetest majesty!
What a potent voice is thine!
At thy prayer diseases fly;
Fading health revives again.

Oft with wasting fever wan,
Lingering at their latest breath,
Dying men by thee are drawn
From the very jaws of death.

Oft the shipwreck’d merchandise,
Sunk beneath the raging flood,
At thy prayer is seen to rise,
By the glorious might of God.

Oh, by thy surpassing power!
By thy joys celestial!
Help us in affliction’s hour;
Hear us when on thee we call.

Everlasting Three in One!
Ever-blessed One in Three!
Grant us through thy Saint the boon
Of a glad eternity.