"Hail thee, festival day" (Easter), St. Bartholomew's Church

#175 from The Hymnal 1982: Processional Hymn for the Second Sunday of Easter at St. Bartholomew's, an Episcopal church in New York City on May 1, 2011.

This hymn is an early 20th-century English translation of the original Latin hymn "Salve, festa dies" ('Hail, O festive day') by Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, who authored it some time in the sixth century. The hymn tune, also called 'Salve festa dies', was composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams also in the early 20th century.

Another popular translation of this same hymn is known in English as "Welcome, happy morning", which was last week's Closing Hymn.

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