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Adeste Fideles"Adeste Fideles" or "O Come All Ye Faithful" is a Christmas carol commonly attributed to John Francis Wade in approximately 1743. Wade was a Catholic layman, a music teacher, who fled the Jacobean rebellion in 1745. He went to Douai, France where there was an English college which was a refuge for English Catholics after the abdication of James II in 1688. The words may therefore be attributed to Wade or to others, but certainly originate amongst exiled Jacobite Roman Catholics of the 1740s. The earliest existing manuscript shows both words and tune. It was published in the 1760 edition of Evening Offices of the Church. John Francis Wade included it in his own publication of Cantus Diversi (1751). It also appeared in Samuel Webbe's An Essay on the Church Plain Chant (1782). The Latin verses 1-3 and 6 were translated to English by Frederick Oakeley (September 5, 1802 - January 29, 1880) in 1841, with stanzas 4 and 6 being translated by William Thomas Brooke. This translation was first published in Murray's Hymnal in 1852. Frederick Oakeley was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was ordained in 1828. In 1845, he switched from the Church of England to the Roman Catholicism; he became canon at Westminster Cathedral in 1852. The title "Adeste Fideles" is usually reserved for the Latin original, and "O Come All Ye Faithful" for the English translation. It is sometimes referred to as the "Portugese Hymn" as it was often sung in the Portugese Embassy in London where Vincent Novello was organist, and who erroneously ascribed the tune to John Redding. It has also on occasions been erroneously attributed to the 13th century saint, Saint Bonaventure. It is most often sung today in an arrangement with a descant verse 6 and unison verse 7 by Sir David Willcocks. The chant "Why Are We Waiting?", which is frequently performed spontaneously at public gatherings to express frustration at delays, is also sung to the same tune. External links
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