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Meaning Of Stabat Mater
A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words,
commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the
cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is
sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See
Station, 7 (c).