Good King Wenceslas

lyrics by John Mason Neale
music by Thomas Helmore, from “Tempus adest floridum” (“The Blooming Time is Here”), a 13th-century Finnish spring carol

Dusty Feasts

The Feast Day of Saint Wenceslaus (28 September)

+Famous as the subject of the popular English Christmas carol “Good King Wenceslaus,” he is the Patron Saint of Prague, Bohemia, and the Czech Republic