Devotion to the Rosary

The devotion of the rosary is a sacramental auto by Lope Vega printed in the early seventeenth century.

Day one

(Pedro Germán, monk, comes out alone.)

Pedro Germán: God without beginning and without end,
whose sovereign feet
Step on the Greatest Seraphim!
God one and Persons three,
that Augustine wanted to understand,
and in the example of the sea,
that the child to lock up wanted
in such a small place,
He saw that none could
so great piélago placate!
God, of whom only to believe!
it is more just reverence
that I do not try to see you,
What impulse, what violence
Here he could bring me!
Sir, in my cell I was:
How do you bring me here?
But … what promised cloud
of gold and Sun is approaching like this
that on my shoulders rises?
As if in a flashlight
his body the Sun will be enclosed,
The internal light illuminates you
and the clear surface,
bathed in its eternal fire;
Together the two walk
to the mountain of your heaven.
What is this, divine God?
Or is it that you go down to the ground
or some saint goes up to you.

(The monk suspén, and with music a figure of a pope, with cape and tiara, goes up a canal.)

Válme el cielo!, podé
say for this man
that through the clouds is seen:
Who is this, that of Edon
it goes up, since it was not
with cloth dressed?
Yes, which is the girded dawn,
and the cape and tiara
clear light conquers the Sun
by the east scattered.
Who will you be, holy confessor,
with that precious mantle,
you who by crown have
Three spheres at the temples
that your gray hair honors so much?
Your light I barely resist;
rather samples, cedar green,
already over Lebanon seen,
that you are Peter’s successor,
that Vicar of Christ.

Fragment of the work