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Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks
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Short Name: Phillips Brooks
Full Name: Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893
Birth Year: 1835
Death Year: 1893

Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem". He is honored on the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar on January 23.
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TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by Phillips Brooks (37)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Everywhere, everywhere Christmas tonightPhillips Brooks (Author)English4
Bassit figa ili a BelenPhillips Brooks (Author)Tagalog1
Betelehema iki ePhillips Brooks (Author)Hawaiian2
Christmas in lands of the fir tree and pinePhillips Brooks (Author)English5
Du Betlehem, du lilla StadPhillips Brooks (Author)1
God hath sent His angels to the earth againBishop Phillips Brooks (Author)English62
Ho eta urbo Betlehem'Phillips Brooks (Author)Esperanto5
ക-ല്ലറ നാൾ ഏ-റെയില്ല (Ka-llaṟa nāḷ ē-ṟeyilla)Phillips Brooks (Author)Malayalam1
على الربى في بيت لحمPhillips Brooks (Author)Arabic0
Малое места Бэтлеем існуе з даўных порPhillips Brooks (Author)Belarusian1
มีบ้านหมู่น้อยชื่อเบธเลเฮ็ม ความมืดปกคลุมหุ้มไว้ (Mī b̂ān h̄mū̀ n̂xy chụ̄̀x beṭhle ḥĕm khwām mụ̄d pkkhlum h̄ûm wị̂)Phillips Brooks (Author)Thai1
Mieścino mala, Betlejembp Phillips L. Brooks (Author)Polish1
오 베들레헴 작은 골 너 잠들었느냐 (O bedeullehem jag-eun gol neo jamdeul-eossneunya)Phillips Brooks (Author)Korean1
O Bethlehem, du kleine StadtPhillips Brooks (Author)German1
ഓ ബേത്ത് ലഹേം ആ രാത്രിയില്‍ എത്ര മനോഹരം! (Ō bētt lahēṁ ā rātriyil etra manēāharaṁ!)Phillips Brooks (Author)Malayalam1
O Garden by the City gatePhillips Brooks (Author)English1
O holy Child of Bethlehem, Descend to us, we prayPhillips Brooks (Author)English1
O kleines Städtchen BethlehemPhillips Brooks (Author)German0
O little town of BethlehemPhillips Brooks (Author)English845
О малый город Вифлеем (O malyy gorod Vifleyem)Phillips Brooks (Author)Russian1
¡Oh aldehuela de Belén!Phillips Brooks (Author)Spanish1
Oh, pueblecito de Belén, Afortunada túPhillips Brooks (1836-1893) (Author)Spanish16
Oh linda aldea de Belén, te vemos descansarPhillips Brooks (Author)Spanish1
Oh pueblecillo de Belén, reposa en sueño túPhillips Brooks (Author)Spanish1
Oh, pueblecito de Belén, Durmiendo en dulce pazPhillips Brooks (estadounidense, 1835-1893) (Author)Spanish4
Oh pueblocito de Belén, Cuan quietoPhillips Brooks (Author)Spanish1
Pequena vila de BelémPhilips Brooks (1835-1893) (Author)Portuguese5
Pequeño pueblo de BelénPhillip Brookes (Author)Spanish1
Petit village de Bethléem, que tu nous parais tranquillePhillips Brooks (Author)French1
Petite ville, Bethléem, tu dors tranquillementPhillips Brooks (Author)French1
Qytet i vogël, BethlehemPhillips Brooks (Author)Albanian1
Ry Betlehema kely o!Phillip Brooks (Author)Malagasy2
The earth has grown cold with its burden of carePhillips Brooks (Author)English3
The silent skies are full of speechPhillips Brooks (Author)English1
The sky can still rememberPhillips Brooks, 1835-1893 (Author)English8
The while I listened came a wordPhillips Brooks (Author)English1
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longerPhillips Brooks (Author)English2

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