Today is the last day on which the sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes is sung at Mass this year, and also the feast day of its long-reputed author, Blessed Notker, known as “Balbulus – the Stammerer” in Latin, who died on this day at the age of about 72, in the year 912.
He was born to a wealthy family around the year 840, near the abbey of Saint Gall in Switzerland, where he was educated from
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