CONCERNING ST. HENRY.
From the Missal of Bamberg.
 Let every spirit praise Christ, who divinely Crowned with glory The glorious Confessor, Whom this Church honors As Patron and Founder.
 The old man in sins Receives the first robe of newness With the ring, Whoever with purer mind Applauds with hand, sings with mouth Worthily to the servant of God.
 (After Six) the King, reading, Doubts what sense The truncated sentence holds: The sixth year rolls round, And the problem is solved By the doubled crown.
 About to purge the mark Of crime, the Virgin claims The modesty of a Virgin: She purges the adultery, Not feeling the heat Of the fiery plowshares.
 On Monte Cassino he feels The care of Benedict, after the long Pressure of the stone, Which, though the body was nowhere Touched, yet drawn thence Each one marvels at.
 The strong Angel wars in the camps, The victor crowning the victor with glory, The enemy being put to flight.
 He presses with frequent prayers, Free from others' cares, oftener at leisure for God, The world being pacified.
 While he passed from this life, The hermit learned the outcome of the matter From the demon: Nothing found worthy of death, Neither hay, nor wood, Nothing of mere man in the man.
 Such a one served Christ, Such a one, living, lives to Christ, In the eternal fatherland. May your servant and friend Henry, O God, console us By your grace.
℣. Pray for us, holy Henry, ℞. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
LET US PRAY.
From the Roman Breviary.
O God, who on this day blessed Henry, etc.
PRAYER.
From the proper of Bamberg.
O God, who placed blessed Henry, distinguished after his earthly empire, in the ethereal seats: grant, we beseech, that him whom we perceive to shine with the signs of miracles, we may feel to be our intercessor in our straits. Through the Lord, etc.
CONCERNING ST. HENRY.
From the Annals of Bamberg in Gretser, page 426.
Come, O offshoot of the Saxons; summit of the Bavarians; honor of the Palatines of the Rhine; ornament of Germany; glory of the Empire; singular adornment of the Church; and stupendous miracle of the whole world: most sacred Emperor Henry; look upon those who love you; and grant by your merits and prayers, that your worshippers may merit to become imitators, as far as they can, of your virtues: so that, cleaving to your footsteps, we may rejoice here always in your patronage, and at last in blessed fellowship with you in the heavens. Amen.
VERSES OF GODFREY OF VITERBO CONCERNING ST. HENRY, CALLED THE LAME.
Hear solemnly the merit of Henry the Lame, Whom it is fitting to applaud, whose verses I offer to his praise:  Taken from the citadel of the ground, he reigns in the citadel of heaven. With a virgin consort, he too remained a virgin; He gave Catholic churches almost a thousand in number,
To the poor and to widows he was hope, and way, and life.
Now too upon the altar we behold his bones consecrated, Worthy solemnities prepared in a salutary manner; And very many bodies of the weak given sound.
[126] Of this metrical encomium of the Viterbian, embracing the chief virtues of St. Henry, we made mention above in the preliminary Commentary at number 76, where we treated of the virginal chastity of St. Henry preserved in marriage, referring the reader thither to the very words of the author, by which we also vindicated that singular glory of the most holy Emperor. Some things indeed were suggested pertaining to the showing of the relics of Bamberg, wont to be celebrated every seventh year; but since these are common enough elsewhere, and seem to pertain no more to the holy Spouses than to other Saints, it was not worth the pains to discourse of that matter at greater length: I preferred to impose a crown on the whole treatment, by enumerating in a few words the temples and chapels erected in honor of the most holy Spouses, which Pottu recounted in this manner.
§ V. Temples and chapels erected in honor of St. Henry and St. Cunegund, besides that of which above at number 18 among the miracles.
At Prague At Prague is seen the notable church of St. Henry, which in honor of this Saint Charles IV, Emperor and King of the Bohemians, built in the year 1333, when he was still marquis of Moravia and governor of Bohemia, and erected it into a parish, which even today is among the chief parochial basilicas of New Prague, furnished with several foundations, especially for maintaining musicians deputed to the service of the temple.
[128] The parish church of Burgkunstadt, which is a city of the diocese of Bamberg, At Burgkunstadt was already some centuries ago dedicated to St. Henry the Emperor, whose patronage is solemnly celebrated every year.
[129] At Bamberg in the year 1654 the church of the Reverend Capuchin Fathers was built in honor of SS. Henry and Cunegund, At Bamberg which in the same year the most Reverend Lord John Melchior, bishop of Domitiopolis and suffragan of Würzburg, on the twenty-eighth of June, with solemn rite, dedicated under the patronage of the same Saints.
[130] Pottenstein, which is a city of the diocese of Bamberg, Pottenstein situated in the mountains toward Vogtland, has outside its walls a chapel dedicated to St. Cunegund the virgin and to her holy Spouse; in which, as constant report received from the elders testifies, a memorable thing happened, here not to be kept silent. For when the Hussites in the year 1430, Vogtland being laid waste, Kulmbach and Bayreuth being also captured and burned, poured themselves in divided bands into the mountain region of the diocese of Bamberg, and unobserved threatened Pottenstein, suddenly in the chapel of SS. Cunegund and Henry an unwonted sound of bells was uttered, by which the roused inhabitants flew together to the chapel; they find the doors shut, and no trace of any man who could have rung the bells. But at the same time they perceive a hostile troop approaching near: having gained a very brief but very opportune delay for providing for their affairs, they speedily prepare themselves, both in the city and in the adjoining fortress, to repel the hostile force: and thus they happily escaped the deadly destruction by which very many neighboring cities, towns, and villages then miserably perished, by the help of their guardian Patrons. In perennial and grateful memory of which benefit, every year a supplication is instituted from the parish church to the said chapel.
[131] in Styria, In Styria at the roots of Pear Mountain is seen a chapel in honor of St. Henry the Emperor, built by Frederick von Hufses, bishop of Bamberg, about the year 1436.
[132] I faithfully render the things received, to which what I might now add, nothing remains: I would dare to trust that from the things said all are clear which make for the commendation of the most holy Emperor and of his most pious clients. Let there be seen the Dillingen Life, chapter 34, page 161.