Edmond budry biography of albert

Summer sermon series at Saint Matthias’ Church, 22nd July 2007

Writing “A toi la gloire” in 1884, the French-speaking Swiss evangelical pastor Edmond Budry could never have envisaged that his hymn would become one of the best known in the world.

Budry was from the north shore of Lake Geneva, from the beautiful town of Vevey, a town so ancient that it was mentioned by the writer Ptolemy back in the Second Century.

From a very strict evangelical background, he studied theology at a free church faculty in Lausanne. In 1881 he went to be pastor to evangelical congregations at Cully and Sainte-Croix and in 1889 he moved to become pastor of the Free Church at Vevey, where he was to remain for 35 years, until his retirement in 1923.

Budry was a proficient linguist and as well as writing his own work in French, he wrote over sixty chorales, some of which appeared in French hymnbooks, he translated hymns from German, English and Latin.

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