Annue Christe saeculorum Domine

This medieval Latin hymn assigned to the Common of Apostles is of unknown authorship and dates back to at least the eleventh century, being preserved in several British Museum manuscripts as well as the Durham Cathedral Hymnarium. In its complete liturgical structure, the hymn consists of four general stanzas frameworked around nine specific stanzas dedicated to individual apostles, including Saint Andrew, Saint James, Saint John, Saint Philip, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Thomas, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon, Saint Thaddeus, and Saint Matthias. In medieval English liturgical practice, particularly within the Sarum and York Breviaries, the four general stanzas beginning "Annue Christe" were regularly appointed for Vespers and Matins on the festivals of Apostles outside of Eastertide. The Sarum Breviary text was later reprinted in Cardinal John Henry Newman's influential collection Hymni Ecclesiae in 1838, preserving interest in the hymn among scholars and liturgical restorers during the Oxford Movement. Franz Joseph Mone also published the complete text from a fifteenth-century manuscript in his late medieval hymnological collection.