The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III. The title comes from its first line, "Stabat Mater dolorosa", which means "the sorrowful mother was standing". The hymn is sung at the liturgy on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Stabat Mater has been set to music by many Western composers. Date The Stabat Mater has often been ascribed to Jacopone da Todi, OFM (ca. 1230–1306), but this has been strongly challenged by the discovery of the earliest notated copy of the Stabat Mater in a 13th-century gradual belonging to the Dominican nuns in Bologna (Museo Civico Medievale MS 518, fo. 200v-04r). The Stabat Mater was well known by the end of the 14th century and Georgius Stella wrote of its use in 1388, while other historians note its use later in the same century. In Provence, about 1399, it was used during the nine days' processions. As a liturgical sequence, the Stabat Mater was suppressed, along with hundreds of other sequences, by the Council of Trent, but restored to the missal by Pope Benedict XIII in 1727 for the Feast of the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Text and translation The Latin text below is from an 1853 Roman Breviary and is one of multiple extant versions of the poem. The first English translation by Edward Caswall is not literal but preserves the trochaic tetrameter rhyme scheme and sense of the original text. The second English version is a more formal equivalence translation. {| style="border:0px" |-valign="top" | <poem lang="la">1. Stabat mater dolorósajuxta Crucem lacrimósa, dum pendébat Fílius. 2. Cuius ánimam geméntem, contristátam et doléntempertransívit gládius. 3. O quam tristis et afflíctafuit illa benedícta, mater Unigéniti! 4. Quae mœrébat et dolébat, pia Mater, dum vidébatnati pœnas ínclyti. 5. Quis est homo qui non fleret,matrem Christi si vidéret in tanto supplício? 6. Quis non posset contristári Christi Matrem contempláridoléntem cum Fílio? 7. Pro peccátis suæ gentisvidit Jésum in torméntis, et flagéllis súbditum. 8. Vidit suum dulcem Natum moriéndo desolátum,dum emísit spíritum. 9. Eja, Mater, fons amórisme sentíre vim dolóris fac, ut tecum lúgeam. 10. Fac, ut árdeat cor meum in amándo Christum Deumut sibi compláceam. 11. Sancta Mater, istud agas,crucifíxi fige plagas cordi meo válide. 12. Tui Nati vulneráti, tam