SICILIAN MARINERS is thought to be a tune sung by Sicilian seamen on board their ships when the sun set. It appeared in Corri's Select Collection of the Most Admired Songs, Duetts, Etc., c. 1794, with the caption "The Prayer of the Sicilian Mariner." As the setting for "O Sanctissima, O Purissima" it was published in The European Magazine and London Review, 1792, and William Tattersall's Psalms selected from the version of the Rev. Jas Merrick, c. 1790.