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The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i.68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.
An invocation beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini (Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord) forming a set part of the Mass.
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