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Lamb of God, pure and sinless

Author: Nikolaus Decius Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.7.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Text Sources: Tr. composite

O LAMM GOTTES, UNSCHULDIG

Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Appears in 63 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Nikolaus Decius Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13555 65655 12342 Used With Text: Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless

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Author: Nikolaus Decius, 1490-1541; Joel W. Lundeen, b. 1918 Hymnal: Lutheran Book of Worship #111 (1978) Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.7.8 Topics: Holy Week; Holy Week Languages: English Tune Title: O LAMM GOTTES, UNSCHULDIG

Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless

Author: Nikolaus Decius, 1485-aft. 1546; Joel W. Lundeen, b. 1918 Hymnal: Lutheran Worship #208 (1982) Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.7.8 Topics: Lent and Passion Week; Liturgical Hymns; Liturgical Hymns Languages: English Tune Title: O LAMM GOTTES, UNSCHULDIG

Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless

Author: Nikolaus Decius, 1485-1550 Hymnal: Evangelical Lutheran Worship #357 (2006) Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Topics: Holy Week, Three Days; Holy Week, Three Days Languages: English Tune Title: O LAMM GOTTES, UNSCHULDIG

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Nicolaus Decius

1485 - 1541 Person Name: Nikolaus Decius, 1490-1541 Author of "Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless" in Lutheran Book of Worship Decius, Nicolaus (Nicolaus a Curia or von Hofe, otherwise Hovesch, seems to have been a native of Hof, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and to have been originally called Tech. He became a monk, and was in 1519 Probst of the cloister at Steterburg, near Wolfenbüttel. Becoming favourable to the opinions of Luther, he left Steterburg in July, 1522, and went to Brunswick, where he was appointed a master in the St. Katherine and Egidien School. In 1523 he was invited by the burgesses of Stettin to labour there as an Evangelical preacher along with Paulus von Rhode. He became preacher at the Church of St. Nicholas; was probably instituted by the Town Council in 1526, when von Rhode was instituted to St. Jacob's; and at the visitation in 1535 was recognized as pastor of St. Nicholas'. He died suddenly at Stettin, March 21, 1541, with some suspicion of being poisoned by his enemies of the Roman Catholic faction (Koch, i. 419-421, 471, 472; ii. 483; Allg. Deutsche Biography, iii. 791-793).He seems to have been a popular preacher and a good musician. Three hymns are ascribed to him. These are versions of the “Sanctus," the "Gloria in excelsis," and the "Agnus Dei." The second and third are noted under these Latin first lines. He is also said to have composed or adapted the melodies set to them. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)