read on for an overview of some of the most popular Christmas hymns around. As Hayes shares, St Ambrose, then Archbishop of Milan, penned such hymns such as Veni Redemptor Gentium. “ ...
This Christmas favorite was written as a poem by Dubliner, Cecil Frances Alexander. It was first published in 1848 in “Miss Cecil Humphreys' hymnbook Hymns for Little Children”. It was an ...
Isaac Watts’s 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 98 became a Christmas classic when it ... hymnody”—and it is now one of the most popular Christmas hymns in North America. Mason routinely gave credit ...