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O come, all ye faithful, gladsome
Author: John Francis Wade Appears in 2 hymnals
O come, all ye faithful, gladsome
O come, all ye faithful, gladsome
Author: John Francis Wade Hymnal: The Garland of Praise. 2nd ed. #ad88 (1923) Languages: English
O come, all ye faithful, gladsome
O come, all ye faithful, gladsome
Author: John Francis Wade Hymnal: The Garland of Praise #d88 (1921)
O come, all ye faithful, gladsome
John Francis Wade
1711 - 1786 Author of "O come, all ye faithful, gladsome" John Francis Wade (b. England, c. 1711; d. Douay, France, 1786) is now generally recognized as both author and composer of the hymn "Adeste fideles," originally written in Latin in four stanzas. The earliest manuscript signed by Wade is dated about 1743. By the early nineteenth century, however, four additional stanzas had been added by other writers. A Roman Catholic, Wade apparently moved to France because of discrimination against Roman Catholics in eighteenth-century England—especially so after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. He taught music at an English college in Douay and hand copied and sold chant music for use in the chapels of wealthy families. Wade's copied manuscripts were published as Cantus Diversi pro Dominicis et Festis per annum (1751).
Bert Polman
John Francis Wade
