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Praise the Savior
Author: V. H. C. Fortunatus, c. 530-609; Augustus Nelson Meter: 4.4.7.4.4.7.4.4.7 Appears in 21 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 3:15 First Line: Praise the Savior Now and ever Topics: Mediator; Praise To God, Jesus Christ; Resurrection of Christ; Trinity, Holy; Cross of Christ; Conqueror, Christ the ; Hell; Responses To Confession Of Faith Used With Tune: UPP, MIN TUNGA
Praise the Savior
O God, Great Father
Author: E. Embree Hoss Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 17:7 First Line: O God, great Father, Lord and King Topics: Fatherhood Of God Used With Tune: MELCOMBE
O God, Great Father
Thus Saith the Mercy of the Lord
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 57 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 17:7 Topics: Adoption; Faithfulness, God's Used With Tune: BELIEF
Thus Saith the Mercy of the Lord
UPP, MIN TUNGA
Meter: 4.4.7.4.4.7.4.4.7 Appears in 18 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 3:15 Tune Sources: Koralbok (Swedish) , 1697 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 12313 45345 65545 Used With Text: Praise the Savior
UPP, MIN TUNGA
CWM RHONDDA
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 300 hymnals Scripture: Exodus 13:21-22 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 56511 71232 31643 Used With Text: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
CWM RHONDDA
Praise the Savior
Author: V. H. C. Fortunatus, c. 530-609; Augustus Nelson Hymnal: BPsH #361 (1976) Meter: 4.4.7.4.4.7.4.4.7 Scripture: Genesis 3:15 First Line: Praise the Savior Now and ever Topics: Mediator; Praise To God, Jesus Christ; Resurrection of Christ; Trinity, Holy; Cross of Christ; Conqueror, Christ the ; Hell; Responses To Confession Of Faith Languages: English Tune Title: UPP, MIN TUNGA
Praise the Savior
O God, Great Father
Author: E. Embree Hoss Hymnal: BPsH #415 (1976) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Scripture: Genesis 17:7 First Line: O God, great Father, Lord and King Topics: Fatherhood Of God Languages: English Tune Title: MELCOMBE
O God, Great Father
Thus Saith the Mercy of the Lord
Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: BPsH #419 (1976) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Scripture: Genesis 17:7 Topics: Adoption; Faithfulness, God's Languages: English Tune Title: BELIEF
Thus Saith the Mercy of the Lord
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
540 - 600 Person Name: V. H. C. Fortunatus, c. 530-609 Scripture: Genesis 3:15 Hymnal Number: 361 Author of "Praise the Savior" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) Venantius Honorius Clematianus Fortunatus (b. Cenada, near Treviso, Italy, c. 530; d. Poitiers, France, 609) was educated at Ravenna and Milan and was converted to the Christian faith at an early age. Legend has it that while a student at Ravenna he contracted a disease of the eye and became nearly blind. But he was miraculously healed after anointing his eyes with oil from a lamp burning before the altar of St. Martin of Tours. In gratitude Fortunatus made a pilgrimage to that saint's shrine in Tours and spent the rest of his life in Gaul (France), at first traveling and composing love songs. He developed a platonic affection for Queen Rhadegonda, joined her Abbey of St. Croix in Poitiers, and became its bishop in 599. His Hymns far all the Festivals of the Christian Year is lost, but some of his best hymns on his favorite topic, the cross of Jesus, are still respected today, in part because of their erotic mysticism.
Bert Polman
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Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, was born at Ceneda, near Treviso, about 530. At an early age he was converted to Christianity at Aquileia. Whilst a student at Ravenna he became almost blind, and recovered his sight, as he believed miraculously, by anointing his eyes with some oil taken from a lamp that burned before the altar of St. Martin of Tours, in a church in that town. His recovery induced him to make a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Martin, at Tours, in 565, and that pilgrimage resulted in his spending the rest of his life in Gaul. At Poitiers he formed a romantic, though purely platonic, attachment for Queen Rhadegunda, the daughter of Bertharius, king of the Thuringians, and the wife, though separated from him, of Lothair I., or Clotaire, king of Neustria. The reader is referred for further particulars of this part of the life of Fortunatus to Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, vol. ii. p. 552. It is sufficient to say here that under the influence of Rhadegunda, who at that time lived at Poitiers, where she had founded the convent of St. Croix, Fortunatus was ordained, and ultimately, after the death of Rhadegunda in 597, became bishop of Poitiers shortly before his own death in 609.
The writings, chiefly poetical, of Fortunatus, which are still extant, are very numerous and various in kind; including the liveliest Vers de Societé and the grandest hymns; while much that he is known to have written, including a volume of Hymns for all the Festivals of the Christian Year, is lost. Of what remains may be mentioned, The Life of St. Martin of Tours, his Patron Saint, in four books, containing 2245 hexameter lines. A complete list of his works will be found in the article mentioned above.
His contributions to hymnology must have been very considerable, as the name of his lost volume implies, but what remains to us of that character, as being certainly his work, does not comprise at most more than nine or ten compositions, and of some of these even his authorship is more than doubtful. His best known hymn is the famous "Vexilla Regis prodeunt," so familiar to us in our Church Hymnals in some English form or other, especially, perhaps, in Dr. Neale's translation, "The Royal Banners forward go." The next most important composition claimed for him is "Pange, lingua, gloriosi praelium certaminis," but there would seem to be little doubt according to Sirmond (Notis ad Epist. Sidon. Apollin. Lib. iii., Ep. 4), that it was more probably written by Claudianus Mamertus. Besides these, which are on the Passion, there are four hymns by Fortunatus for Christmas, one of which is given by Daniel, "Agnoscat omne saeculum," one for Lent, and one for Easter. Of "Lustra sex qui jam peregit," of which an imitation in English by Bishop. Mant, "See the destined day arise," is well-known, the authorship is by some attributed to Fortunatus, and by some to St. Ambrose.
The general character of the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus is by no means high, being distinguished neither for its classical, nor, with very rare exceptions, for its moral correctness. He represents the "last expiring effort of the Latin muse in Gaul," to retain something of the "old classical culture amid the advancing tide of barbarism." Whether we look at his style, or even his grammar and quantities, we find but too much that is open to criticism, whilst he often offends against good taste in the sentiments he enunciates. Occasionally, as we see in the "Vexilla Regis," he rises to a rugged grandeur in which he has few rivals, and some of his poems are by no means devoid of simplicity and pathos. But these are the exceptions and not the rule in his writings, and we know not how far he may have owed even these to the womanly instincts and gentler, purer influence of Rhadegunda. Thierry, in his Récits des Temps Mérovingiens, Récit 5, gives a lively sketch of Fortunatus, as in Archbishop Trench's words (Sacred Latin Poetry, 1874,p. 132), "A clever, frivolous, self-indulgent and vain character," an exaggerated character, probably, because one can hardly identify the author of "Vexilla Regis," in such a mere man of the world, or look at the writer of "Crux benedicta nitet, Dominus qua carne pependit" q.v., as being wholly devoid of the highest aspirations after things divine. A quarto edition of his Works was published in Rome in 1786. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.]
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Fortunatus, V. H. C., p. 384, i. The best edition of his poems is F. Leo's edition of his Opera Poetica, Berlin, 1881 (Monumenta Germaniae, vol. iv.).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
Augustus Nelson
1863 - 1949 Scripture: Genesis 3:15 Hymnal Number: 361 Translator of "Praise the Savior" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) Augustus Nelson (b. Asarum, Bleking, Sweden, 1863; d. Mankato, MN, 1949) graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and did graduate work in philosophy and history at Yale University and at Augustana Theological Seminary, Rock Island, Illinois. During his ministry he served parishes in Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Bert Polman
Augustus Nelson
E. Embree Hoss
1849 - 1919 Scripture: Genesis 17:7 Hymnal Number: 415 Author of "O God, Great Father" in Psalter Hymnal (Blue) Hoss, Elijah Embree, D.D., Bishop of the Amer. Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Washington County, Tenn., April 14, 1849, and graduated at Emory and Henry College, Va., 1869, of which he was subsequently President. He was Professor in Vanderbilt University for some time, and from 1885 to 1890 editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate. His hymn, "O God, great Father, Lord and King " (Holy Baptism), was included in The Methodist Hymnal, N.Y., 1905. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Born: April 14, 1849, Washington County, Tennessee.
Died: April 23, 1919, Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Buried: Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough, Tennessee; he was re-interred there in 1924, having originally been buried elsewhere.
Hoss graduated from Ohio Wesleyan and Emory & Henry College, Virginia (1869). In 1870, he became an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He pastored in Knoxville, Tennessee (1870-72); San Francisco, California (1872-74); and Ashville, North Carolina. From 1876-81, he taught at Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Virginia, then became president of his alma mater, Emory & Henry College. He was also a professor of Church History at Vanderbilt University (1885-90), and edited the Christian Advocate in Nashville, Tennessee (1890-92). In 1902, he became the Methodist bishop of Dallas, Texas. His works include:
Elihu Embree, Abolitionist, in Publications of the Vanderbilt Southern Historical Society (Nashville, Tennessee: University Press Company, 1897)
--www.hymntime.com/tch
E. Embree Hoss
