Brewer's: Tantum Ergo

The most popular of the Eucharistic hymns sung in the Roman Catholic churches at Benediction with the Holy Sacrament. So called from the first two words of the last stanza but one of the hymn Pange Lingua.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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