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Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks
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Short Name: Phillips Brooks
Full Name: Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893
Birth Year: 1835
Death Year: 1893

Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Wikipedia Biography

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem". He is honored on the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar on January 23.
Wikipedia Biography

TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by Phillips Brooks (35)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Bassit figa ili a BelenPhillips Brooks (Author)Tagalog2
Betelehema iki ePhillips Brooks, 1836-1893 (Author)Hawaiian3
Christmas in lands of the fir tree and pineBishop Phillips Brooks (Author)English5
Du Betlehem, du lilla StadPhillips Brooks (Author)2
Everywhere, everywhere Christmas tonightPhillips Brooks (Author)English5
God hath sent His angels to the earth againBishop Phillips Brooks (Author)English62
Ho eta urbo Betlehem'Phillips Brooks (Author)Esperanto6
ക-ല്ലറ നാൾ ഏ-റെയില്ല (Ka-llaṟa nāḷ ē-ṟeyilla)Phillips Brooks (Author)Malayalam2
على الربى في بيت لحمPhillips Brooks (Author)Arabic1
Малое места Бэтлеем існуе з даўных порPhillips Brooks (Author)Belarusian2
มีบ้านหมู่น้อยชื่อเบธเลเฮ็ม ความมืดปกคลุมหุ้มไว้ (Mī b̂ān h̄mū̀ n̂xy chụ̄̀x beṭhle ḥĕm khwām mụ̄d pkkhlum h̄ûm wị̂)Phillips Brooks (Author)Thai2
Mieścino mala, Betlejembp Phillips L. Brooks (Author)Polish2
오 베들레헴 작은 골 너 잠들었느냐 (O bedeullehem jag-eun gol neo jamdeul-eossneunya)Phillips Brooks (Author)Korean2
O Bethlehem, du kleine StadtPhillips Brooks (Author)German2
ഓ ബേത്ത് ലഹേം ആ രാത്രിയില്‍ എത്ര മനോഹരം! (Ō bētt lahēṁ ā rātriyil etra manēāharaṁ!)Phillips Brooks (Author)Malayalam2
O Garden by the City gatePhillips Brooks (Author)English2
O holy Child of Bethlehem, Descend to us, we prayPhillips Brooks (Author)English2
O kleines Städtchen BethlehemPhillips Brooks (Author)German1
O little town of BethlehemPhillips Brooks (Author)English815
О малый город Вифлеем (O malyy gorod Vifleyem)Phillips Brooks (Author)Russian2
Oh pueblecillo de Belén, reposa en sueño túP. Brooks (Author)Spanish2
Oh, pueblecito de Belén, Afortunada túPhillips Brooks (Author)Spanish17
Oh, pueblecito de Belén, Durmiendo en dulce pazPhillips Brooks (estadounidense, 1835-1893) (Author)Spanish4
Oh pueblocito de Belén, Cuan quietoPhillips Brooks (Author)Spanish2
Pequena vila de BelémPhilips Brooks (1835-1893) (Author)Portuguese3
Pequeño pueblo de BelénPhillips Brooks (Author)Spanish2
Petit village de Bethléem, que tu nous parais tranquillePhillips Brooks (Author)French2
Petite ville, Bethléem, tu dors tranquillementPhillips Brooks (Author)French2
Qytet i vogël, BethlehemPhillips Brooks (Author)Albanian2
Ry Betlehema kely o!Phillip Brooks (Author)Malagasy3
The earth has grown cold with its burden of carePhillips Brooks, D.D. (Author)English4
The silent skies are full of speechPhillips Brooks (Author)English2
The sky can still rememberPhillips Brooks (Author)English9
The while I listened came a wordPhillips Brooks (1835-1893) (Author)1
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longerPhillips Brooks (Author)English3

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