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ST. DENIO
We sing the hymn "Immortal, Invisible, God only Wise" to the hymn tune, ST. DENIO, also known as JOANNA, which is a traditional Welsh folk tune. It could have come from the folk tune "Can Mlynedd I’nawr" ("A hundred years from now") popular in the early nineteenth century. Other sources suggest it came from a ballad about a cuckoo. It first appeared as a hymn tune in John Robert's Caniadau y Cyssegr, in 1839, where it is called PALESTINA. Gustav Holst published it in The English Hymnal, in 1906, bringing it into modern hymnody. The name refers to St. Denis, the patron saint of France.