Rex Sempiterne Domine (“To Thee, O everlasting King”)
Translation: Fr. John Fitzpatrick, Oblate of Mary
Second Tune: “Erschienen Ist” • 88 88 A
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Huron Carol of St. Jean de Brébeuf (“Upon the birth of Jesus”)
Translation: Fr. Dominic Popplewell
Tune: “Une Jeune Pucelle” • 86 86 88 R
This famous Christmas carol was possibly written around 1642AD, when Saint Brébeuf was in Quebec, recuperating from a broken collarbone, which had left him in excruciating pain for many months.