Johann Adolph Hasse's Salve Regina Performed by Bernarda Fink and the Berliner Barock Solisten, Directed by Bernhard Forck

"There's a reason that Anglicans--so I've heard--who pray the rosary will say absolutely everything except the Hail Holy Queen," writes Enbrethiliel in but one of many interesting points; "Some things are just too papist, even for non-Fundie Christians who understand a thing or two about Tradition" — Punk Catholic Thought of the Week VIII. She also reminds us that "there's no Scriptural basis for the rosary, anyway," explaining, "We didn't develop the rosary by reading the Marian portions of the Gospels and picking out the verses we liked; we were taught to pray it when Mary herself appeared to St. Dominic and asked him to make this devotion to her and spread it all over Christendom."

The author of Salve Regina was none other than Blessed Herman the Cripple (1013-1054), a.k.a. Hermann Contractus, who also wrote the Alma Redemptoris Mater. Perhaps there is something to Enbrethiliel's comments that "[s]ome things are just too papist, even for non-Fundie Christians who understand a thing or two about Tradition," as composer Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783) left the High Church Lutheranism of his birth to embrace Catholicism.