O come, all ye faithful, gladsome

O come, all ye faithful, gladsome

Author: John Francis Wade
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: John Francis Wade

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 p… Go to person page >

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First Line: O come, all ye faithful, gladsome
Latin Title: Adeste Fideles
Author: John Francis Wade
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Garland of Praise #d88

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