FC Sion FC Sion Football Club de Sion, commonly known as simply FC Sion or Sion, is a Swiss football team from the city of Sion (). The club was founded in 1909, and play their home matches at the Stade Tourbillon. They have won the Swiss Super League twice, and the Swiss Cup in 13 of their 14 appearances in the final, the most recent being in 2015. FC Sion were founded in 1909 by Robert Gilliard, who became club captain, and played their first match the same year, a 3–2 win against FC Aigle. The club grew thanks to contributions
Lauda Sion Lauda Sion "Lauda Sion Salvatorem" is a sequence prescribed for the Roman Catholic Mass for the feast of Corpus Christi. It was written by St. Thomas Aquinas around 1264, at the request of Pope Urban IV for the new Mass of this feast, along with "Pange lingua", "Sacris solemniis", "Adoro te devote", and "Verbum supernum prodiens", which are used in the Divine Office. The Gregorian melody of the "Lauda Sion" is borrowed from the eleventh-century sequence "Laetabundi iubilemus" attributed to Adam of Saint Victor. The hymn tells of the institution of the Eucharist and clearly expresses the belief of the