HE Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal does not mimic or “build upon” Protestant hymnals. From first to last, it’s a Catholic publication. We assembled a staggering number of Catholic hymnals, from which we selected only the very best material. Someday, we hope to release all of the source material we discovered.

This is not to say that we took absolutely nothing of Protestant origin, and those who carefully examine the following list will spot a few Anglican publications.

PLEASE FEEL FREE to download some of the books we came across during our research for the Brébeuf hymnal. We hope to release the complete collection someday:

1842 • ENGLISH HYMNS in METER (A. D. Wackerbarth) —74pg

1847 • CATHOLIC HYMNAL with HARMONIES (Fr. Stephan Lück) —879pg

1848 • HYMNS OF THE HEART (Matthew Bridges) —97pg

1851 • LYRA CATHOLICA (Edward Caswall) —572pg

1853 • CATHOLIC HYMNS with ILLUSTRATIONS (Cardinal Wiseman) —64pg

1854 • THE HYMNAL NOTED (J. M. Neale) —226pg

        ADDITIONAL   •   Accomp.   •   Words   •   Alt. Versions

1854 • ORATORY HYMNS and TUNES (Fr. Faber) —202pg

1850s • THE HYMN of SAINT CASIMIR (Various Translations)

* 1860 • THE CATHOLIC HYMNAL (London) —192pg

1861 • SUNDAY SCHOOL BOOK (Fr. Furniss)   {Hymns begin on pg 146}

1862 • HAWAIIAN HYMNAL (Honolulu, Probably Anglican) —251pg

1863 • MEDIEVAL HYMNS and SEQUENCES (J. M. Neale) —242pg

1870 • CATHOLIC HYMNS (Servite Fathers) —92pg

1872 • THE HYMNARY (Benjamin Webb & William Cooke) —665pg

1873 • HYMNS and POEMS (Fr. Edward Caswall) —489pg

1878 • LATIN HYMNAL “Cantiones Sacræ” (Joseph Mohr) —440pg

1880 • HYMN TRANSLATIONS by D. T. Morgan (Anglican) —314pg

1884 • ANNUS SANCTUS (Orby Shipley) —478pg

1884 • THE ROMAN HYMNAL (Fr. J. B. Young) —801pg

1885 • O CHRIST HIE MERK! (Fr. Guido Maria Dreves) —180pg

1889 • MANUAL of PRAYERS (Council of Baltimore)   {Hymns begin on pg 599}

1889 • ORIGINAL TEXTS in “Hymns Ancient & Modern” —406pg

1900 • BREVIARY HYMNS & MISSAL SEQUENCES (Bishop Bagshawe) —222pg

* 1905 • ARUNDEL HYMNS (Duke of Norfolk) —569pg (202MB)

1905 • NOTRE DAME HYMN BOOK (Birtchnell & Brown) —88pg

1905 • THE HYMNER (Anglican) —166pg

1906 • THE ENGLISH HYMNAL (Anglican) —pg917

1906 • SAINT BASIL HYMNAL (15th ed.) —428pg

1906 • CATHOLIC CHURCH HYMNAL (E. Tozer) —376pg

1907 • SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMN BOOK (Sisters of Notre Dame) —187pg

1907 • ANGLICAN HYMN BOOK (Bullock) —1,151pg

1908 • EARLY CHRISTIAN HYMNS (Judge D. J. Donahoe) —278pg

1908 • OFFICE HYMNS together with the PROPER MELODIES (Anglican) —506pg

1909 • THE CATHOLIC HYMNAL (Fr. Alfred Young) —296pg

1910 • SAINT MARK’S CATHOLIC HYMNAL (Peoria) —222pg

1911 • CROWN HYMNAL (Fr. Kavanagh) —610pg

1912 • EUCHARISTICA (Hugh Thomas Henry) —230pg

* 1912 • WESTMINSTER HYMNAL (Sir Richard R. Terry) —423pg

* 1913 • SAINT HUGH HYMN BOOK (Fr. Adrian Fortescue) —168pg

* 1913 • SONGS OF SYON HYMNAL (George Woodward) —613pg

1913 • AMERICAN CATHOLIC HYMNAL (Marist Brothers) —509pg

1913 • DE LA SALLE HYMNAL (New York) —263pg

1913 • BOOK of HYMNS (Fr. Gregory Ould & William Sewell) —572pg

1914 • HOSANNA CATHOLIC HYMN BOOK (Fr. Ludwig Bonvin) —285pg

1914 • COLLECTED SEQUENCES and HYMNS (J. M. Neale) —460pg

1915 • HOLY CROSS HYMNAL (Cardinal O’Connell) —52pg

1916 • PANGE LINGUA ( Alan G. McDougall) —122pg

1918 • ST. BASIL HYMNAL (“completely remodelled”) —350pg   {Very Large File}

1920 • CATHOLIC HYMNAL (Fr. John G. Hacker) —348pg

1920 • SAINT GREGORY HYMNAL (Nicola A. Montani) —512pg

1921 • STANDARD CATHOLIC HYMNAL (James A. Reilly) —171pg

1922 • HYMNS of the BREVIARY and MISSAL (Fr. Matthew Britt) —390pg

1936 • PAROCHIAL HYMNAL (Fr. Carlo Rossini) —291pg

1937 • SAINT CECILIA HYMNAL (J. Alfred Schehl) —272pg

1937 • MOUNT MARY HYMNAL (Sister Gisela) —255pg

1938 • SAINT ROSE HYMNAL (Franciscan Sisters) —222pg

* 1939 • NEW WESTMINSTER HYMNAL (Ronald Knox) —452pg

1941 • CHANT SERVICE BOOK (Achille P. Bragers) —208pg

* 1942 • LAUDATE HYMNAL and CHOIRBOOK (Hohe, Koch, Green) —270pg

1943 • HYMNS OF THE DOMINICAN BREVIARY (Aquinas Byrnes) —694pg

* 1948 • DAILY HYMN BOOK (Westminster & Desclée) —360pg

1949 • Msgr. Ronald Knox “Trials of a Translator”

1952 • CANTATE OMNES HYMNAL — Buffalo, New York

1953 • SAINT PIUS X HYMNAL — Organist & Congregational editions

* 1954 • CATHOLIC HYMMNS — Fr. John Selner

* 1955 • CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL — Rev. Aloysius Knauff

* 1955 • MEDIATOR DEI HYMNAL (J. Vincent Higginson) —114pg

1955 • HYMNS of the ROMAN LITURGY (Fr. Joseph Connelly) —285pg

1957 • PARISH HYMNAL (Sister Catherine Cecilia) —72pg

1957 • LEEDS CATHOLIC HYMNAL (Crosiers) —232pg

1959 • POPE PIUS XII MASS HYMNAL (Joseph Roff)

1964 • Scottish: ST. ANDREW HYMNAL (Catholic) —434pg

1967 • DOMINICAN BREVIARY HYMNS —In four (4) parts

* A red star indicates the book is particularly noteworthy.

Saint Jean de Brébeuf brought the True Faith to the New World and underwent extreme suffering during his martyrdom. It was Brébeuf who said to Jogues, Garnier, and Chastellain in the summer of 1636:

“Fear no difficulties; there will be none for you, since it is your whole consolation to see yourself crucified with the Son of God.”

While Saint Brébeuf was working in the missions, the hymns of the Catholic Church were being completely revised by Pope Urban VIII, the same pope who granted Father Isaac Jogues special permission to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, even though his fingers had been brutally sawn off by the Iroquois.

To get your copy before anyone else, join the mailing list: