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English hymnist and music copyist best known as the probable composer of the Christmas carol 'Adeste Fideles' (O Come, All Ye Faithful).John Francis Wade was an English Catholic hymn writer and music copyist who lived during the 18th century. Fleeing religious persecution in England after the Jacobite rising of 1745, he spent most of his life in exile in France, primarily in Douai. He earned his living meticulously copying and illuminating plainchant and other sacred music manuscripts for the...