Salve Regina

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Salve Regina

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Learned borrowing from Latin salvē rēgīna (“hail, queen”), the opening of the prayer in that language.

noun Salve Reginas

A hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary. The fifth remark is, that any person who cannot read or hear the Novena read, can make it by saying every day five Salve Reginas and five Ave Marias, saying first an act of contrition, and observing as far as possible the directions here given.
Similar: Hail Holy Queen
A musical setting of this hymn. I have often been scolded for this by Reutter, and especially when I composed a Salve Regina for twelve voices.

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noun hymn to the Virgin Mary

Português	salve-rainha

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@misc{salve_regina_2026,
  title = {Salve Regina},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salve%20regina},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}