Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…
Display Title: Blessed Monica (May 4)First Line: In Afric's northern coastlandTune Title: LANCASHIREAuthor: Harold T. Lewis (b. 1947)Date: 1993Subject: Black Saints |