The “Magnificat,” also known as the canticle ... setting is sung in Latin except for the second movement, which draws text from the English medieval poem “Of a Rose, a Lovely Rose.” ...

Many scholars think the same is true of the canticle Magnificat (Luke 1.46-55), and its companion text Benedictus (1.68-80). Whatever its origin, if Luke himself found the Magnificat and adapted it to ...