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Adeste Fideles
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Christmas carol of unknown authorship
Key facts
- Native name
- Adeste Fideles
- Genre
- Christmas music Hymn
- Language
- Latin, English
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Author
- Bonaventure
- Genre
- Christian hymn
- Performer
- Åsa Jinder
- Image
- Adeste, fideles (earliest version).jpg
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- form of creative work
- song
- Commons category
- Adeste fideles
- language of work or name
- Latin
- title
- Adeste Fideles
- derivative work
- We're Not Gonna Take It
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Encyclopedic overview
"O Come, All Ye Faithful", also known by its original title "Adeste Fideles", is a Christmas carol that has been attributed to various authors, including John Francis Wade (1711–1786), John Reading (1645–1692), King John IV of Portugal (1604–1656), and anonymous Cistercian monks. The earliest printed version is in a book published by Wade. A manuscript by Wade, dating to 1751, is held by Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.
The original four verses of the hymn were extended to a total of eight, and these have been translated into many languages. In 1841, the English Catholic priest Frederick Oakeley translated the hymn into English as "O Come All Ye Faithful", which became widespread in English-speaking countries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adeste Fideles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.