O Come all ye faithful




Text:    Adeste Fideles; unknown early 18th century French author
            first source in John Francis Wade's Cantus Diversi pro Dominicis et Festis per anum, Lancashire 1751
            first published in Evening Offices of the Church, 1760
            translation by Frederick Oakeley(1802-1880), 1841; first published in Murray's Hymnal, 1852
Music:  ADESTE FIDELES §5726
            John Francis Wade, MS Cantus Diversi pro Dominicis et Festis per anum, Lancashire 1751
            harmonization from The English Hymnal (1906)
 

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