By BBC Music Magazine

Published: Wednesday, 03 November 2021 at 12:00 am


Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated across the globe, but it remains a particularly important holiday for North Americans, as it celebrates the 1621 harvest feast between the English colonists and the indigenous Wampanoag people, which took place at the Plymouth Plantation. In the US, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.

Best hymns for Thanksgiving

All Creatures of Our God and King

Inspired by Psalm 148 the hymn ‘All Creatures of Our God and King’ started life as the poem the ‘Canticle of the Sun’, written in 1225  by St. Francis of Assisi. it was translated into English by William Drape between 1899 and 1919.