Sion District Sion District The district of Sion is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). It comprises the following municipalities: The blazon of the district coat of arms is "Per pale Argent two Mullets of Five Gules, and Gules." Sion has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French (31,488 or 85.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1,878 or 5.1%) and Portuguese is the third (1,029 or 2.8%). There are 915 people who speak Italian and 20 people who speak Romansh. ,
Lauda Sion optional in the post-Vatican II Ordinary form. As with St. Thomas' other three Eucharistic hymns, the last few stanzas of the "Lauda Sion" are often used alone, in this case, to form the "Ecce panis Angelorum". Another translation is used in the 1981 Lectionary approved for Australia and New Zealand (Volume 1, pages 601-603). It is by James Ambrose Dominic Aylward OP (1813-1872) and was published in Annus Sanctus in 1884, pages 194-196. 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