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John Francis Wade

John Francis Wade was an English hymnist who is usually credited with writing and composing the hymn "Adeste Fideles". The authorship is disputed, with 13th-century cardinal St. Bonaventure and King John IV of Portugal being proposed as alternative composers, although the earliest known manuscripts of the hymn discovered from 1946 all bear Wade's signature. Others argue for John Reading or anonymous Cistercian monks. Wade fled to France after the Jacobite rising of 1745 was crushed. As a Catholic layman, he lived with exiled English Catholics in France, where he taught music and worked on church music for private use. From Wikipedia (

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O Come, All Ye Faithful

Charlotte Church

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Adeste Fideles

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Adeste Fideles

Helmut Lotti, Steven Mercurio, John Francis Wade, Wiener Symphoniker, and Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children's Choir

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A Christmas Festival

Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops Orchestra, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Franz Xaver Gruber, Georg Friedrich Händel, James Lord Pierpont, John Francis Wade, Leroy Anderson, and Traditional

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O Come All Ye Faithful

Leonard Bernstein

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O Come, All Ye Faithful (Dormition Abbey 2000)

Charlotte Church & John Francis Wade • 489K views

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For The Healing Of The Nations (tune: Rhuddlan) - Organ Instrumental With Introduction And Lyrics

The Hymn Channel • 520 views

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For the Healing of the Nations (CWM RHONDDA)

Jeremy Rush • 1K views

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Hymn - For the healing of the nations

Melanie Plumley • 506 views