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ST. HILDA

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William S. Chester Incipit: 56532 11176 6762 Used With Text: O little town of Bethlehem!

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O little town of Bethlehem!

Author: Phillips Brooks Appears in 873 hymnals Used With Tune: ST. HILDA

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O Little Town of Bethlehem

Author: Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893 Hymnal: AGO Founders Hymnal #17 (2009) First Line: O little town of Bethlehem! Languages: English Tune Title: ST. HILDA
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O little town of Bethlehem!

Author: Phillips Brooks Hymnal: Praise Songs #34 (1897) Languages: English Tune Title: ST. HILDA

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Phillips Brooks

1835 - 1893 Person Name: Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893 Author of "O Little Town of Bethlehem" in AGO Founders Hymnal Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

William Sidell Chester

1865 - 1900 Person Name: William Sidell Chester, 1865-1900 Composer of "ST. HILDA" in AGO Founders Hymnal
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