Memorare Latin prayer help, two versions?

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I was memorizing the Memorare in Latin, but somehow after I was finished, I wanted to check something, and found another Latin version that was slightly different. Can anyone skilled in Latin tell me which version is correct? Or the “official” Latin prayer?
First version:
MEMORARE, O piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia, esse derelictum.
Ego tali animatus confidentia, ad te, Virgo Virginum, Mater, curro, ad te venio, coram te gemens peccator assisto. Noli, Mater Verbi, verba mea despicere; sed audi propitia et exaudi. Amen.
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Second version:
Memorare, o piisima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia esse derelicta. Nos tali animati confidentia ad te, Virgo Virginum, Mater, currimus; ad te venimus; coram te gementes peccatores assistimus. Noli, Mater Verbi, verba nostra despicere, sed audi propitia et exaudi. R. Amen.
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Also, to help me memorize Latin prayers, I’ve been using a Latin dictionary I bought to translate individual words. However, it doesn’t seem to have a lot of the words I see in Catholic Latin prayers. Can anyone recommend a good book to translate “old” Latin, or recommend a good online resource? Thanks!
 
the first is in first person singular tense: I.
the second is in first person plural: We.

Whitaker’s Words is a good online source.
 
The frist version is in the 1st person singular:
I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do **I **come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

The second version is plural:
we
our
us
 
Michael_Mayo said:
The frist version is in the 1st person singular:
I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do **I **come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

The second version is plural:
we
our
us
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It’s nice to know I was able to retain something from my Latin class that I am going to fail
 
at least you have a Latin class available where you are :bighanky:
 
From what I could find, the first one is the one indulgenced by Pope Pius IX in 1846, Raccolta, #339 (S. C. Ind., Dec. 11, 1846; S. P. Ap., Sept. 8, 1935) Encr. Ind. #32

But I could not personally verify this claim. 🤷
 
A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful who recite the Memorare (I didn’t even know :D)

And now I can verify the claim 😉

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minion said:
Also, to help me memorize Latin prayers, I’ve been using a Latin dictionary I bought to translate individual words. However, it doesn’t seem to have a lot of the words I see in Catholic Latin prayers. Can anyone recommend a good book to translate “old” Latin, or recommend a good online resource? Thanks!
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I suspect the problem is that you’re looking up declined or inflected forms of words. For example, the Latin for tree is arbor, but it could show up in text as arbore, arboris, arborem, etc. depending on how it’s being used. The dictionary entry will be under arbor though.

translate.google.com actually has Latin as an option, and it should give you several options if you just type in a single word.
 
This excerpt includes more info on how this prayer came to be indulgenced:

The same Sovereign Pontiff Pius IX, in order to satisfy the earnest wish of his Eminence Cardinal Louis James Maurice de Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons, by a rescript of the S. Congr. of Indulgences of July 25, 1846, granted to all the faithful in the kingdom of France–

i. The indulgence of 300 days every time this most efficacious and devout prayers of St. Bernard to the Blessed Virgin is said with contrite heart.

ii. The plenary indulgence, to all those who have the devout habit of saying this prayer at least once a day every month, on any once day in the month, provided that, having Confessed and Communicated, they visit a church or public oratory, and pray there according to the mind of the Sovereign Pontiff.

Afterwards his Holiness, at the prayer of several ecclesiastics and persons of consideration in Rome, vouchsafed, by a decree of the S. Congragation of Indulgences of Dec. 11, 1846, to extend these Indulgences to all the faithful in the whole Catholic world for ever, under the conditions above-named.

Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a sæculo quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia, esse derelictum. Ego tali animatus confidentia, ad te, Virgo virginum, Mater, curro, ad te venio, coram te gemens peccator assisto; noli, Mater Verbi, verba mea despicere, sed audi propitia, et exaudi. Amen.

Remember, Mary, tenderest-hearted Virgin, how from of old the ear hath never heard that he who ran to thee for refuge, implored thy help, and sought thy prayers, was forsaken of God. Virgin of virgins, Mother, emboldened by this confidence I fly to thee, to thee I come, and in thy presence I a weeping sinner stand. Mother of the Word Incarnate, O cast not away my prayer; but in thy pity hear and answer. Amen.
  • The Raccolta: Collection of Indulgenced Prayers by Ambrose St. John, of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, Birmingham, Authorized translation, 1857 edition, p. 195-196.
 
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