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Hither, ye faithful, adoring triumphant

Author: John Francis Wade Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

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Hither, ye faithful, adoring triumphant

Hymnal: Hymns for All Christians #L32 (1869) Hymnal Title: Hymns for All Christians Languages: English

Hither, ye faithful, adoring triumphant

Hymnal: Hymns for all Christians #232 (1889) Hymnal Title: Hymns for all Christians Languages: English

1711 - 1786 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Hither, ye faithful, adoring triumphant" 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 per annum (1751). Bert Polman