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418. Faith of Our Fathers

Text Information
First Line: Faith of our fathers, living still
Title: Faith of Our Fathers
Author: Frederick W. Faber (1849, alt.)
Refrain First Line: holy faith, we will be true
Meter: 88.88.88
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Tune Information
Name: ST. CATHERINE
Composer: Henri F. Hemy (1864)
Adapter: James G. Walton (1874)
Meter: 88.88.88
Key: G Major or modal


Text Information:

From a Protestant Huguenot upbringing Frederick Faber was led by Henry Newman and the English Oxford Movement into the Roman Catholic Church. His original version read, 'Faith of our Fathers! Mary's prayers shall keep our country fast to thee'


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