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#414: Holy God, We Praise Your Name
Nov. 18th, 2019 10:04 pmWhat's the hymn tune name?
"Grosser Gott," which appears to be German for "Holy God."
Cool stuff.
Well, it's adapted from a Latin text called "Te Deum" ("You, God" [we praise...]) which gave its name to a Catholic prayer of thanksgiving on special occasions. I learned this in, of all things, a history of astronomy book, where an astronomer and Jesuit priest named Father Hell said the prayer after getting perfect conditions to observe and measure the transit of Venus. So that's cool if you're my kind of nerd.
"Grosser Gott," which appears to be German for "Holy God."
Cool stuff.
Well, it's adapted from a Latin text called "Te Deum" ("You, God" [we praise...]) which gave its name to a Catholic prayer of thanksgiving on special occasions. I learned this in, of all things, a history of astronomy book, where an astronomer and Jesuit priest named Father Hell said the prayer after getting perfect conditions to observe and measure the transit of Venus. So that's cool if you're my kind of nerd.
