O Nazareth, home royal, blest

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O Nazareth, home royal, blest

Author: Pope Leo XIII
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Easy Organ Library, Vol. 52

Choral
	From Heaven Above to Earth I Come - (Cho…

Instrumental
	O Come, Emmanuel: Six Advent and Christm…

Author: Pope Leo XIII

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First Line:	O Nazareth, home royal, blest
Latin Title:	O gente felix hospita
Author:	Pope Leo XIII
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Source:	Trans.: Irish Dominican Fathers (Dominican Breviary in English), alt.
Language:	English
Copyright:	Translation © 1967 by The Irish Dominican Fathers

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Tune

[This day to you is born a Child] (12343)

VOM HIMMEL HOCH

Initially Luther used the folk melody associated with his first stanza as the tune for this hymn. Later he composed this new tune for his text. VOM HIMMEL HOCH was first published in Valentin Schumann's Geistliche Lieder in 1539. Johann S. Bach (PHH 7) used Luther's melody in three places in his wel…

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