In many countries in Catholic Europe, there are traditional folk songs which retell the events of Our Lord’s birth, ministry, Passion, and death. From Ireland and Scotland to Hungary, lullabies are sung to the Christ Child in persona Maria. Similar songs are also sung about Our Lord’s Passion.

A prime example may be seen at the link below, which leads to a Good Friday dirge sung in the Connemara dialect of Irish Gaelic. It takes the role of a dialogue between Christ and His Blessed Mother. In its climax, He comforts her by saying that countless other women, as yet unborn, shall also weep over His Passion and death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4pUOpdgTWM