Hymn writer Martin Franzmann was born Jan. 29: 1907: in Lake City: Minn. His friend Robin Leaver, author of “Come to the Feast,” a book about Franzmann, writes that the boy “grew up within the ...
On June 5, 1865, Anglican priest and polymath Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the processional hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The hymn was originally written for children walking to Horbury St. Peter's ...
WASHINGTON — The doctrine committee of the US bishops’ conference (USCCB) earlier this year produced a guide to evaluating the lyrics of hymns on the basis of their doctrinal content, noting that ...