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Appendix: A Recovery of the “Salve Antoniana”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

John Thornton
John Thornton
Affiliation:
Millersville University, Pennsylvania
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This is an attempt to render into the original Kikongo Dona Beatriz' version of the Salve Regina. It is given only in an Italian translation in Bernardo da Gallo's account of Dona Beatriz' movement.

ORIGINAL ITALIAN TEXT

Salve voi dite, e non sapete il perche. Salve recitate, e non sapete il perche. Salve bastonate, e non sapete il perche. Iddio vuole l'intenzione, l'intenzione Iddio piglia. Nulla serve il casamento, l'intenzione Iddio piglia. Nulla serve il battesmo, l'intenzione Iddio piglia. Nulla serve la confessione, l'intenzione Dio piglia. Nulla serve l'orazione, l'intenzione Dio vuole. Nulla servono l'opera buone, l'intenzione Iddio vuole. La Madre et il figlio nella ponta di ginocchio. Se non era S. Antonio, come havevano da fare? S. Antonio è il pietoso, S. Antonio è il remedio nostro, S. Antonio è il restauradore del regno di Congo, S. Antonio è il consolatore del regno del cielo. S. Antonio è lui la porta del cielo. S. Antonio tiene le chiavi del cielo. S. Antonio è sopra gl' Angioli, e la vergine Maria. S. Antonio è lui il secondo Dio …

ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ITALIAN TEXT

Salve you say and you do not know why. Salve you recite and you do not know why. Salve you beat and you do not know why. God wants the intention, it is the intention that God takes. Marriage serves nothing, it is the intention that God takes.

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The Kongolese Saint Anthony
Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706
 , pp. 215 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1998

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