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Quicunque vult en · PROPN

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin quīcunque vult (salvus esse …) (“whoever will (be saved …)”), the opening words of the creed.

Meanings

1. The Athanasian Creed.
   • Monday Vespers is interrupted first by the materials for Prime, with psalm 117 […] and the Quicunque vult with a selection of antiphons. 2020, John Caldwell, “The Development of the Latin Liturgical Psalter in England”, in Tess Knighton, David Skinner, editors, Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages […], →ISBN, page 164:
   • Nobody can deny that Creed to have been published under the name of Charlemagne: nor, till an earlier work of undoubted authenticity can be produced where the ‘Quicunque vult’ is designated ‘the Faith’ or ‘Creed of S. Athanasius,’ can anybody deny Charlemagne to have been the first in whose writings, or the writing of persons acting under him, it is ascribed—and ascribed falsely—to S. Athanasius, and paraded as a Creed possessing all the authority that would attach justly to his name. 1885, Edmund S. Ffoulkes, Primitive Consecration of the Eucharistic Oblation: With an Earnest Appeal for Its Revival, page 314:
   • Robertus Paululus, Presbyter of Amiens, in the Diocess of Rheims, speaking of the Offices recited at the Prime, observes that the Piety of good Christians had thereunto added the Quicunque vult, that the Articles necessary to salvation might never be forgotten any hour of the Day. 1728, Daniel Waterland, A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed […], 2nd edition, page 45:

Forms

Relateds

Athanasian wench

Synonyms

Quicunque