Clouds of Tu es Petrus

• Tu es Petrus (Latin): Thou art Peter. Quote from Matthew 16:18: "And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter [Greek for "rock"], and upon this rock I will build my church." (Peter is now regarded as the first pope of the Roman Catholic Church)
  • cf. also Page 3: Thuartpeatrick
  • Palestrina composed a motet on the words "Tu es Petrus"

• Clouds of Tu es Petrus: i.e., the heavens

• Crowds of Tu es Petrus: Crowds of Catholics → John McCormack sang "Panis Angelicus" before thousands of Catholics who had gathered in Phoenix Park for the last mass of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress, including an estimated 25% of the population of Ireland.