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Media vita in morte sumus
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Media vita in morte sumus (Latin for "In the midst of life we are in death") is the first line of a Gregorian chant known as "Antiphona pro Peccatis" or "de Morte".[1] The most accepted source is a New Year's Eve religious service in the 1300s.[1] Reference has been made to a source originating in a battle song of the year 912 by Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall, however, the Synod of Cologne declared in 1316 that no one should sing this without the prior permission of the residing bishop.[1]