Thomas of Celano

Thomas of Celano was an Italian Franciscan friar, best known as the first biographer of St. Francis of Assisi. He is traditionally held to be the author of the Latin sequence Dies irae.

Seven English versions of the Dies irae are given here, as collected in C. C. Nott's The Seven Great Hymns of the Mediaeval Church (1902), by Abraham Coles, Richard Crashaw, John Adams Dix, William Josiah Irons, Franklin Johnson, the Earl of Roscommon and Edward Slosson.