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In medieval southern Italy, this hymn would be written on long scrolls decorated with upside-down figures who would appear right-side-up as the scroll was unfurled. Early versions of this hymn contained a long passage full of bee symbolism which, in the current version, has been reduced to just two mentions of bees. This hymn, which is usually sung by a deacon, contains the line, “O truly necessary (*) sin of Adam, destroyed completely by the death of Christ,” before calling that sin a “happy fault, that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer.” Just before this hymn is sung, the congregation sits in darkness while light gradually spreads by the lighting of small candles. For 10 points, name this hymn sung by Latin Rite Catholics before the paschal candle at the beginning of the Easter Vigil. ■END■ (0[9])

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