Hymns dedicated to saints?

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Are there any hymns dedicated to saints? Beside hymns which sang to praise God and hymns dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, are there any hymns about the saints?
 
In the Catholic Book of Worship is “St Joseph Be Our Guide and Pattern”

There are general ones like “For All the Saints” and “Faith of our Fathers”. “Come Let Us Honour Those” makes specific mention of St. Marguerite (Bourgeoys) but it’s more about her than to her and that verse is only to be sung on her feast day.

Maybe it’s a Canadian thing?
 
There is a beautiful hymn to Padre Pio which EWTN plays between programs sometimes. I can’t think of the girl who sings it, but if you search “Padre Pio” on U-tube, you might find it.
 
There are many hymns like this in eastern Christianity if you search around.
 
I don’t know why but “St Joseph Be Our Guide and Pattern” sound somehow identical to a version of “Ave Maris Stella” that I’ve heard.
 
The problem with hymns dedicated to saints is that saints tend to write the hymns! Saintly men never focus on other saintly men (except in charity), but focus on God, so their hymnals are hardly full of words about other men. When saints write hymns (as most of them do), they are always wrapped up in the love of Eternal God. It’s hard to write a good rhyme about Saint Augustine when all you are seeing in your ecstasy is the Lord! 😉

Aquinas never wrote one hymn to anyone or anything other than the Blessed Lord in the Eucharist. It’s a sort of endearing puppy-like loyalty to God. A puppy isn’t terribly interested in much other than his master!
 
The old St. Gregory Hymnal has hymns to individual Saints. I can think of two offhand: ‘Blessed Francis, Holy Father’ (St. Francis of Assisi) and "The Maid of France, With Vision’d Eyes’ (St. Joan of Arc. tune is ‘The March of the Kings’, which Georges Bizet used for his ‘L’Arlesienne Suite’).

There’s one to St. Joseph, ‘O Blessed St. Joseph, How Great Was Thy Worth’. That’s also in the St. Gregory Hymnal.
 
UnityofTrinity said:
I don’t know why but “St Joseph Be Our Guide and Pattern” sound somehow identical to a version of “Ave Maris Stella” that I’ve heard.
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It isn’t unusual for hymn texts to be set to old familiar tunes.
 
I know it’s true of the Discalced Carmelites and probably true for other Orders that special hymns in honor of Saints of those Orders have been written to be sung on their given Feast Days. Most of these hymns end in a praise of the Most Holy Trinity, e.g., this is the hymn for the Feast of All Carmelite Saints (Nov. 14):

*O Saints of Carmel, throned above
In Mary’s court, obtain this grace
That where you are in glory now
We, too, may find a resting-place.

May hosts of martyrs intercede
For us on earth, confessors pray
And choirs of holy virgins pleads
That God may wash our sins away.

O blessed saints of solitutde,
And all the heavenly company,
Obtain for us that life in God
Which lasts for all eternity.

Praise to the Father evermore
And to the Spirit he bestows,
To Jesus whom that Virgin bore
From whom all Carmel’s beauty flows.*
 
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