"Adeste Fideles" is the name of a hymn tune attributed
to John Francis Wade and the first line of the Latin
text for which the tune was written. The text itself
has unclear beginnings, and may have been written in
the 13th century, though it has been concluded that
Wade was probably the author, and it has been
interpreted as a Jacobite birth ode to Bonnie Prince
Charlie. The original four verses of the hymn were
extended to a total of eight, and these have been
translated into many languages many times, though the
English "O Come All Ye Faithful" translation by
Frederick Oakeley is particularly widespread. (source
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