Referring approvingly to these hagiographies, a preacher from the 12th century wrote: īut his deeds I think you know better than I could tell you for, as is read in his Passion, no one doubts that, rising every night from his noble bed, with bare feet and only one chamberlain, he went around to God's churches and gave alms generously to widows, orphans, those in prison and afflicted by every difficulty, so much so that he was considered, not a prince, but the father of all the wretched. Sheet music of "Good King Wenceslas" in a biscuit container from 1913, preserved at the Victoria and Albert Museum. These hagiographies had a powerful influence on the High Middle Ages conceptualization of the rex iustus, or "righteous king"-that is, a monarch whose power stems mainly from his great piety, as well as from his princely vigor. Within a few decades of Wenceslas's death, four biographies of him were in circulation. Wenceslas was considered a martyr and a saint immediately after his death in the 10th century, when a cult of Wenceslas rose up in Bohemia and in England. Neale's lyric was set to the melody of the 13th-century spring carol "Tempus adest floridum" ("Eastertime Is Come") first published in the 1582 Finnish song collection Piae Cantiones. In 1853, English hymnwriter John Mason Neale translated the lyric from a Czech poem by Václav Alois Svoboda, in collaboration with his music editor Thomas Helmore, and the carol first appeared in Carols for Christmas-Tide, published by Novello & Co the same year. The legend is based on the life of the Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907–935), who was not a king but a duke. During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step, through the deep snow. " Good King Wenceslas" ( Roud number 24754) is a Christmas carol that tells a story of a Bohemian king (modern-day Czech Republic) who goes on a journey, braving harsh winter weather, to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen (December 26, the Second Day of Christmas). Problems playing this file? See media help.
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