Spiritual songs > Hymns of the Liturgical Year > Saint Nicholas (December 6)
U d'ilach predivnyj
This hymn to Saint Nicholas is from page 58 of Father Stefan Papp's Duchovňi Pisňi (1969). Music is not provided; instead, the text is to be sung to the same melody as the Palm Sunday hymn, Rad'ij duže nyni, on page 25 of the same collection. (For a similar melody sung in the Byzantine Catholic Church, compare Radujsja zilo).
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This hymn was included in the Užhorod Pisennik (1913) as hymn number 26, with six verses. The first line ("Vo d'ilach prividnyj") and the melody to be used (Radujsja zilo) are slightly different from the version later printed by Papp, but it is recognizably the same hymn.
The four verses in Duchovňi Pisňi correspond to verses 1, 4, 5, and 6 of the Užhorod version.