Glorioso Cristo

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Glorioso Cristo, Rey de lo creado

Translator: Federico J. Pagura; Author: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Tune: CRUSADERS' HYMN (111271)
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Translator: Federico J. Pagura

Federico José Pagura was an Argentine Methodist bishop and author and translator of hymns. Leland Bryant Ross Go to person page >

Author: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Glorioso Cristo, Rey de lo creado
Title:	Glorioso Cristo
German Title:	Schönster, Herr Jesu
Translator:	Federico J. Pagura
Author:	August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Meter:	Irregular
Source:	En Schlesische Volkslieder, 1842
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Trad. © 1962 Ediciones La Aurora

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Tune

CRUSADERS' HYMN (111271)

ST. ELIZABETH appears to be an eighteenth-century tune from the Glaz area of Silesia. It has always been associated with this text. No factual data exists for the legend that this text and tune date back to the twelfth-century crusades, although those apocryphal stories explain one of the names by w…

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