Stars of the morning, so gloriously bright.

Stars of the morning, so gloriously bright.  Greek, translated by John Mason Neale* (1818-1866). This hymn, with its arresting opening, was first printed in Neale’s Hymns of the Eastern Church (1862), where it is entitled ‘Stars of the Morning. A Cento from the Canon of the “Bodiless Ones.” Tuesday in the Week of the Fourth Tone’ (for ‘the Fourth Tone’, see below). Neale attributed it to St Joseph of the Studium. This may be an error for St Joseph the Hymnographer*, who is named as the author in JJ (p. 1088) and in EH, and who continues to be credited with this hymn. Maurice Frost* (1962, p. 299), gives St John Damascene* or St Theodore Studite* as the author, on the evidence of...