Strong in the living God

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Strong in the living God

Author: William P. Tilden
Published in 8 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Sixteen Introductions or Interludes for…

Choral
	O Sanctissima/ O How Joyfully

Handbells
	COME, THOU ALMIGHTY KING

Author: William P. Tilden

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Text Information

First Line:	Strong in the living God
Author:	William P. Tilden
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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TILDEN

ITALIAN HYMN

Felice de Giardini (b. Turin, Italy, 1716; d. Moscow, Russia, 1796) composed ITALIAN HYMN in three parts for this text at the request of Selina Shirley, the famous evangelically minded Countess of Huntingdon. Giardini was living in London at the time and contributed this tune and three others to Mar…

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SICILIAN MARINERS

SICILIAN MARINERS is traditionally used for the Roman Catholic Marian hymn "O Sanctissima." According to tradition, Sicilian seamen ended each day on their ships by singing this hymn in unison. The tune probably traveled from Italy to Germany to England, where The European Magazine and London Review…

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