O Come, all ye faithful, is one of the most popular English carols, but it began life written in Latin by an Englishman living in France.
It’s 1750 and a community of English Catholics are living in Douai, working towards the restoration of a Catholic monarch in England.
One of them is a music copyist and calligrapher called John Francis Wade. His beautiful manuscript books were the finest examples of his artistic craft. Wade also wrote and published