O Come All Ye Faithful

A Latin hymn 'Adeste Fideles' widely attributed to John Francis Wade, an English Catholic layman and music copyist who lived in exile in France following the failed Jacobite Rising of 1745. Wade is believed to have composed the hymn around 1743, with the earliest signed manuscript dating to that year and its first printed appearance in his 1751 collection "Cantus Diversi." Some musicologists suggest it might have been a coded political message for Jacobites to support Bonnie Prince Charlie. The English translation by Frederick Oakeley in 1841 is widespread, created for use at his Margaret Street Chapel in London. Oakeley, who was an Anglican priest at the time, later converted to Catholicism in 1845. The hymn was even known as "the Portuguese hymn" for a time due to its performance at the Portuguese embassy chapel in London.