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unusual facts about John Mason Neale


John Neale

John Mason Neale (1818–1866), English divine, scholar and hymn-writer


Anglican and Eastern Churches Association

The Anglican and Eastern Churches Association is a religious organization founded as the Eastern Church Association in 1864 by John Mason Neale and others and of which Athelstan Riley was a leading member.

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

It is, however, a hymn by St. Germanus, (Μέγα καὶ παράδοξον θαῦμα), translated from Greek to English by John M. Neale in 1862.

Henry Ramsden Bramley

Along with earlier 19th-century composers such as William Sandys and John Mason Neale, Bramley and Stainer are credited with fuelling a Victorian revival of Christmas carols with their 1871 publication of Christmas Carols, New and Old, which popularised carols such as "The First Nowell", "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" and "The Holly and the Ivy".


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