"Gabriel's Message", in Basque "Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen", also known as "The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came" was collected by Charles Bordes and published in the series Archives de la tradition basque (1895). The lyrics were originally based on "Angelus Ad Virginem", a 13th or 14th Century Latin carol. Sabine Baring-Gould, who wrote several novels and hymns (including "Onward Christian Soldiers") and who had spent a winter as a boy in Basque lands, translated the carol into English, reducing the original 6 stanzas to 4 and giving Gabriel the very beautiful and very Victorian 'wings as drifted snow'. The carol is commonly performed in an arrangement by Edgar Pettman published in his 1892 book Modern Christmas Carols. It was printed in Pettman's Modern Christmas Carols (1892), McDowell and MacKinnon's A Book of Folk Carols (2004) and Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006). It was recorded by Sting on If on a Winter's Night (2009) and A Very Special Christmas (1987), Marillion on Christmas.Marillion (1999) and Christmas in the Chapel (2003), Terry McDade and The McDades on Midwinter (2001), Jars of Clay on Christmas Songs (2007), Charlotte Church on Dream a Dream (2000) and Moya Brennan on An Irish Christmas (2005).