John Francis Wade
Who is John Francis Wade
John Francis Wade (1 January 1711 – 16 August 1786) was an English hymnist who is sometimes credited with writing and composing the hymn "Adeste Fideles" (which was translated to "O Come All Ye Faithful" in 1841 by Frederick Oakeley), even though the actual authorship of the hymn remains uncertain. The earliest copies of the hymn all bear his signature.Wade fled to France after the Jacobite rising of 1745 was crushed. As a Catholic layman, he lived with exiled English Catholics in France, where he taught music and worked on church music for private use.
Jacobite symbolism
Bennett Zon, Head of the Department of Music at Durham University, has noted that Wade's Roman Catholic liturgical books were often decorated with Jacobite floral imagery. He argued that the tex...
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John Francis Wade Poems
- Prosa In Nativitáte Dómini (adeste Fideles)
Adeste Fideles laeti triumphantes,
Veníte, veníte in Bethlehem.
Natum vidéte, Regem Angelorum:
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- O Come, All Ye Faithful (adeste Fideles)
O come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant,
O Come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him, Born the King of angels;
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- Micahmj11: 10 mk feeney
11 joseph green
12 will braveman
13 wade albert
14 chesley lightsey
15 jessica brown
16 kay yu
17 melissa francis
18 john padova
19 aaron bell
- Micahmj11: 10 mk feeney
11 joseph green
12 will braveman
13 wade albert
14 chesley lightsey
15 jessica brown
16 kay yu
17 melissa francis
18 john padova
19 aaron bell
- Gregdaly: there is good stuff in this piece on benedict by john waters -
- Gotukulele: come all ye faithful (instrumental ʻukulele).
music by john francis wade.
latin words translated by frederick oakeley.
- Kdfcplaylist: o come all ye faithful by john francis wade / chanticleer / warner 284988
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