Herman the lame wrote the Salve Regina according to my Gregorian Missal (1990 Solesmes, must be true.)
According to Fr Benedict Groeschel, he suffered from spina bifida and had such a bad cleft palet that it was extremely hard to understand what he was saying.
Too early to be a Renaissance man, he just excelled at everything going in his century.
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Yes, I was fascinated when I first heard about this - and now our society makes sure they are all aborted away! How many more wonderful pieces of music have been lost.
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