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The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #156a
Tune Title: VEXILLA REGIS First Line: The royal banners forward go Composer: Rev. John Henry Hopkins, S.T.D. Date: 1922
The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #156a
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VEXILLA REGIS (Hopkins)
VEXILLA REGIS (Hopkins)
Composer: John Henry HopkinsPublished in 2 hymnals
Composer: John Henry Hopkins
John Henry Hopkins, Jr MA USA 1820-1891. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, having 12 siblings, the son of pioneer parents (his father from Dublin, his mother from Hamburg) he became an ecclesiologist. His father had been an ironmaster, school teacher, lawyer, priest and second Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, (becoming presiding bishop in 1865). When his father founded the Vermont Episcopal Institute, he needed an assistant to help run it, so he picked his son to become a tutor and disciplinarian. The younger Hopkins played the flute and bugle in the school orchestra and also taught Sunday school. John Henry reflected the artistic talents of both parents in music, poetry, and art. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1839, he returned… Go to person page >Instances
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The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #94a
Tune Title: [The royal banners forward go] First Line: The royal banners forward go Composer: Rev. John Henry Hopkins, S. T. D. Meter: L. M. Date: 1894
The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #94a
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