Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Misso Herodes
(Motecta festorum totius anni, 1564)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
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Misso Herodes spiculatore praecepit amputari caput Joannis Baptistae in carcere: quo audito, discipuli eius venerunt, et tulerunt corpus eius, et posuerunt illud in monumento.
=== ENGLISH ===
Herod sent an executioner to cut off the head of John the Baptist in prison: On hearing this, his disciples came, and took his body, and put it in a tomb.