Hymn to the Holy Mother of God

Hymnus in sanctam Dei Genitricem · Germanus I of Constantinople · c. 700-730 (8th c.) · liturgy

Greek · domain: hymnography · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

PG 98's contents list gives the item as 'Hymnus in sanctam Dei Genitricem, ex Danielis Thesauro hymnologico. 453' - i.e. printed at col. 453 from Daniel's Thesaurus hymnologicus, Greek text with Latin version: https://archive.org/download/patrologia-graeca_202105/98.pdf. HOLLIS Primo 'Germanus of Constantinople hymn English' returns only secondary works that quote fragments (Gambero, Mary and the Fathers of the Church; a Eucharistic-doctrine history), and Neale's Hymns of the Eastern Church has no Germanus section (checked 2026-11-13). No English translation of the hymn was located.

A short piece, but a clean 'none': it exists only in Migne (Greek with Latin), is not in the SVS anthologies that cover his homilies, and is not in Neale. It would need collation against Daniel's Thesaurus hymnologicus rather than the liturgical books.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
other · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1860); Internet Archive scan patrologia-graeca_202105/98.pdf (PG 98, col. 453)

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Germanus I of Constantinople Hymn to the Holy Mother of God — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
A history of the doctrine of the holy eucharist Stone, Darwell, 1859-1941 · 1909 · eng	Stone, Darwell, 1859-1941. "A history of the doctrine of the holy eucharist." London, Longmans, Green, and co. 1909. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990024231360203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Hymn to the Holy Mother of God” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-germanos-i-hymnus-theotokou