Most Wondrous Maker of the Light

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Most wondrous maker of the light

Translator: Aelred Shanley
Tune: PUER NOBIS NASCITUR
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Translator: Aelred Shanley

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First Line:	Most wondrous maker of the light
Title:	Most Wondrous Maker of the Light
Latin Title:	Lucis creator optime
Translator:	Aelred Shanley
Source:	3rd century
Language:	English
Copyright:	By permission of Dominican Friars of Toronto

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PUER NOBIS NASCITUR

PUER NOBIS is a melody from a fifteenth-century manuscript from Trier. However, the tune probably dates from an earlier time and may even have folk roots. PUER NOBIS was altered in Spangenberg's Christliches GesangbUchlein (1568), in Petri's famous Piae Cantiones (1582), and again in Praetorius's (P…

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