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Under thy protection

Sub tuum praesidium

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English text

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Estimated English reading time 10–20 seconds

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Actual displayed source text; editorial vocal pace 100–160 words/minute. Rounded range; headings/rubrics within this displayed text are included, but verse numbers and V./R./Ant. labels are not counted.

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We fly to thy patronage, O Holy Mother of God; despise not thou our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

Latin text

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Estimated Latin reading time 10–20 seconds

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Actual displayed source text; editorial vocal pace 80–140 words/minute. Rounded range; headings/rubrics within this displayed text are included, but verse numbers and V./R./Ant. labels are not counted.

Reading estimate only; it does not establish the duration or satisfy other conditions of a related indulgenced work.

Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genetrix; nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta.

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