The Royal Banners Forward Go

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Source: CPWI Hymnal #145

Translator: J. M. Neale

John M. Neale's life is a study in contrasts: born into an evangelical home, he had sympathies toward Rome; in perpetual ill health, he was incredibly productive; of scholarly tem­perament, he devoted much time to improving social conditions in his area; often ignored or despised by his contemporaries, he is lauded today for his contributions to the church and hymnody. Neale's gifts came to expression early–he won the Seatonian prize for religious poetry eleven times while a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1842, but ill health and his strong support of the Oxford Movement kept him from ordinary parish ministry. So Neale spent the years between 1846 and 1866 as a warden of Sackvi… Go to person page >

Author: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus

Venantius Honorius Clematianus Fortunatus (b. Cenada, near Treviso, Italy, c. 530; d. Poitiers, France, 609) was educated at Ravenna and Milan and was converted to the Christian faith at an early age. Legend has it that while a student at Ravenna he contracted a disease of the eye and became nearly blind. But he was miraculously healed after anointing his eyes with oil from a lamp burning before the altar of St. Martin of Tours. In gratitude Fortunatus made a pilgrimage to that saint's shrine in Tours and spent the rest of his life in Gaul (France), at first traveling and composing love songs. He developed a platonic affection for Queen Rhadegonda, joined her Abbey of St. Croix in Poitiers, and became its bishop in 599. His Hymns far all th… Go to person page >

Notes

Venantius Fortunatus wrote this hymn in honor of the founding of the monastery of Poiters. It is believed to have been first sung on November 19, 569 as part of a procession that brought the most revered relic of the Catholic church, a piece of the cross of Christ, from Constantinople to the French monastery. Nowhere is the work of the cross so poignantly portrayed as in theses immortal lines. --Greg Scheer, 1997

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VEXILLA REGIS PRODEUNT (34665)


GONFALON ROYAL

Percy C. Buck (b. West Ham, Essex, England, 1871; d. Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England, 1947), director of music at the well-known British boys' academy Harrow School, wrote GONFALON ROYAL for “The royal banners forward go” (gonfalon is an ancient Anglo-Norman word meaning banner). Buck publi…

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Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #729

Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #243

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Common Praise (1998) #186

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Common Praise #122a

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Common Praise #122b

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Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #663

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CPWI Hymnal #145

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Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #273

Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard Edition #58a

Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard Edition #58b

Hymns and Psalms #179

Hymns Old and New #492

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Lutheran Service Book #455

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Lutheran Worship #2

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Lutheran Worship #103

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Lutheran Worship #104

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Rejoice in the Lord #286

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Rejoice in the Lord #287

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #604

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The Cyber Hymnal #5853

The Hymnal 1982 #162

The New Century Hymnal #221

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The New English Hymnal #79

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Together in Song #332

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Worship (3rd ed.) #435

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