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James Chadwick

1813 - 1882 Hymnal Number: d35 Author of "Hail, holy mission, hail" in Diocesan Hymnal Chadwick, James, was born April 24, 1813, at Drogheda, Ireland, and educated at Ushaw College, Durham, where he was ordained in 1836, and successively became Professor and President. In 1866 he was consecrated H. C. Bishop of Newcastle, and died May 14, 1882. Two hymns which he contributed to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, are in most later Roman Catholic hymnals:— 1. Hail, holy mission, hail. For a Mission. 2. Jesus, my God [Lord], behold at length the time. Repentance. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ==================== See also in: Cyberhymnal

John Wyse

1825 - 1898 Hymnal Number: d55 Author of "I'll sing a hymn to Mary, the Mother of my God" in Diocesan Hymnal Wyse, John, was b. in 1825 at Dublin, ordained priest 1851, was in 1884 R. C. priest in charge at Tichborne, Hants, and d. May 22, 1898, at Clifton Wood Convent, Bristol. His hymns include:— 1. From day to day, sing loud thy lay (p. 1720, i.). 2. God comes to His altar. Holy Communion. 3. God the Father, Who did'st make me. Holy Trinity. 4. I'll sing a hymn to Mary. B. V. M. Of these Nos. 3, 4, are in the Crown of Jesus, 1862, Nos. 130, 143; No. 1 in the Dominican Hymn Book, 1881, p. 36; No. 2 in the C.SS.R. Appendix of 1885 to Hymns for the Year, No. 309. No. 1 is also in the Arundel Hymns, 1902, and Nos. 3, 4 in Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Hugh T. Henry, 1862-1946

1862 - 1946 Person Name: Hugh T. Henry Hymnal Number: d68 Author of "Long live the pope his praises sound" in Diocesan Hymnal Born: November 27, 1862, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: March 12, 1946, Jessup, Pennsylvania. Henry attended LaSalle College, the University of Pennsylvania, and St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. After ordination in 1889, he taught English and Latin at the seminary until 1894, music and literature until 1917, and directed the seminary choir. He went on to serve as Rector of the Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys (1902-19), and professor of homiletics at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC (1919-37). He is also remembered as a lecturer at the Catholic Summer School, Cliff Haven, New York; president of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia; editor of Church Music (1905-14); and author of Catholic Customs and Symbols. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman

1802 - 1865 Person Name: Nicholas Wiseman Hymnal Number: d27 Author of "God bless our Pope" in Diocesan Hymnal Wiseman, Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen, son of James Wiseman, merchant at "Waterford and Seville, was born at Seville, Spain, Aug. 2, 1802, educated at Ushaw College, Durham, and at the English College in Rome; ordained priest at Rome in 1825, and became in 1827 Rector of the English College. In 1840 he was consecrated at Rome as Bp. of Melipotamus in partibus, and returned to England as Vicar-Apostolic of the Midlands, being summoned in 1850 by Pope Pius IX. to Rome, made a Cardinal and created Archbishop of Westminster. He died in London, Feb. 15, 1865. His hymns include:— 1. England! Oh, what means this sighing? [For the Conversion of England.] Contributed to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, No. 77, repeated in the St. Patrick's Hymn Book, 1862, Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, 1862, and others. 2. Full in the panting heart of Borne. [The Pope.] In the Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, 1862, No. 257, Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898, and many others. 3. 0 beate mi Edmunde. [St. Edmund of Canter¬bury.] Written as a solace during an illness at Rome in 1860, printed as Hymnus in honor em S. Edmundi (London, n.d., but before Oct. 5,1860, and first used on St. Edmund's day, Nov. 16, 1861, at the solemn enshrinement of a relic of St. Edmund (brought from Pontigny in 1853, by Card. Wiseman), in the Lady Chapel of St. Edmund's College, near Ware. It is in three decades, telling of his youth, manhood, and episcopate. It was sung by the English pilgrims at Pontigny in 1874, and is still used at St. Edmund's College on the nine days before Nov. 16 (see Mgr. Bernard Ward's History of St. Edmund's College, 1893, p. 277, &c). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Thomas J. Potter

1828 - 1873 Person Name: T. J. Potter Hymnal Number: d14 Author of "Brightly gleams our banner" in Diocesan Hymnal Potter, Thomas Joseph, was born at Scarborough in 1827, and joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1847, and subsequently took Holy Orders. For many years he filled the Chair of Pulpit Eloquence and English Literature in the Foreign Missionary College of All Hallows, Dublin. He published The Spoken Word; or, The Art of Extemporary Preaching; Sacred Eloquence, or, The Theory and Practice of Preaching; and The Pastor and his People; together with several tales. He translated the Vesper hymns in the Catholic Psalmist; contributed to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860; and published Legends, Lyrics, and Hymns, 1862. His most widely-known hymn is "Brightly gleams our banner" (q.v.). Several of his hymns and translations are in use in Roman Catholic hymnbooks for Missions and Schools. He died at Dublin in 1873. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Potter, T. J., p. 901, ii., was b. June 9, 1828 (not in 1827), ordained 1857, and died Aug. 31, 1873. The hymn:— O! yet, once more, in Britain's isle [For the Conversion of England], in the Arundel Hymns, 1902, is stanzas 30, 31, 34, 35, 36 of a piece inhis Legends, Lyrics and Hymns, 1862. It is entitled "The Definition of the Immaculate Conception: or England and Rome," and marked as “Written several years ago .. to be spoken at the Feast of Languages, which is annually celebrated in the Propaganda College at Rome, on the Festival of the Epiphany, . . . now published for the first time." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

M. B. Marr

Person Name: M. S. Marr Hymnal Number: d119 Author of "Pray for the dead at noon and eve" in Diocesan Hymnal

St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

1673 - 1716 Person Name: Louis Marie Grignon Hymnal Number: d145 Author of "I nothing fear with Jesus at my side" in Diocesan Hymnal Grignon, Louis Marie, son of J. B. Grignon, Sieur de la Bacheleraie, was born Jan. 31, 1673, at Montfort, near Rennes, and is generally known as Grignon de Montfort, or as de Montfort. He was ordained priest in 1700, and devoted himself principally to conducting missions and retreats, after 1711 in the diocese of La Rochelle. He died April 28, 1716, at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, Vendee. In 1833 he was decreed the Venerable, in 1870 advanced to the grade of the Blessed, but has not yet been formally canonised. His hymns were collected as Cantiques des Missions composes par Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort, Poitiers, 1763, the most complete and authentic ed. being that of Poitiers, 1865. The two best known in English are:— 1. Benissons a jamais. [Thanksgiving.] 1865, as above, p. 137; in the Abbé Saurin's Recueil de Prieres et de Cantiques, 1906, No. 49, &c.; translated as: — Praise we our God with joy. In the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, No. 3, marked as a translation contributed by the Very Rev. Canon Oakeley. It is repeated in Hymns for the Year, 1867, Church Hymns, 1903, No. 535, and others. 2. Le monde en vain, par ses biens et ses charmes. [Trust in Jesus.] 1865, p. 42; in Saurin, 1906, No. 115 ; in the Cantiques Spirituels, Chartres, 1774, No. 50, &c.; translated as: — To win my heart with visions bright and fair. In the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, No. 85, marked as a tr. by Right Rev. Mgr. Manning. Repeated in the Arundel Hymns, 1902, No. 145. Two others are translated in the Parochial Hymn Book, 1880:— 3. A la mort, a la mort. [On Death.] 1865, p. 69; Saurin, 1906, No. 43, &c.; translated as:— On to death, on to death. Previously in the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, No. 94, as by F. R. 4. Dieu va dej loyer sa puissance. [Day of Judgment.] 1865, p. 78; Saurin, 1906, No. 45; Cantiques Spirituels, Chartres, 1774, No. 77; translated as:— God now prepares to show His might. By K. D. Best. In his own Priest's Poems, 1900, p. 66, it begins “The Lord prepares." [Rev. James Mearns, M. A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Emily M. C. Shapcote

1828 - 1909 Hymnal Number: d120 Author of "Queen of the holy rosary" in Diocesan Hymnal Shapcote, Emily Mary, née Steward (p. 1589, ii., as Mrs. Shepcote), was b. at Liverpool in 1828, and m. in 1856 the Rev. E. G. Shapcote (1852, curate of Odiham, Hants, later Missionary in S. Africa under the S.P.G.). In 1866 she was received into the Church of Rome, and her husband two years later. She now (1906) resides at Torquay. The Hymns for Infant Children (p. 1589) were pub. by Masters in 1852 (not 1840), those marked E being by Mrs. Shapcote, those marked A by her aunt, Mary Steward, those marked C by her sister, Eleanor Steward. Her more recent hymns appeared principally in her Eucharistic Hours, 1886. Those in common use include:— 1. Heavenly Father, from Thy throne. [Litany.] In 1852 as above, No. 20, the second St. beginning, "Jesus, Saviour, holy, mild." In Church Hymns, 1871 and 1903, and others, it is given, with many slight alterations, as "Jesus, holy, undefiled" (p. 1589, ii.). 2. 0 Jesus, dearest Lord, I cry to Thee. [Holy Communion.] In 1886 as above, p. 112, dated Clapham, 1876. It was rewritten by Dr. H. A. Rawes in his Little Handbook of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Ghost, 1879, as "O Jesus, hidden God, to Thee." 3. Queen of the Holy Rosary. [B. V. M.] Written about 1882, and included in St. Dominic's Hymn Book, 1885 and 1901, A. E. Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898, &c. Her translation of "Salve mundi salutare " is noted at p. 1697, ii. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Irvin

Hymnal Number: d99 Author of "O Lord, I am not worthy" in Diocesan Hymnal

F. G. Lee

1832 - 1902 Hymnal Number: d8 Author of "Ancient of days, thy servants meet" in Diocesan Hymnal Lee, Frederick George, D.D., born in 1832, educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (S. C. L. 1854), and Vicar of All Saints, Lambeth, since 1867. Author of a large number of works (see Crockford, 1891). His hymns "Laud the grace of God victorious" (St. Alban), and "When day's shadows lengthen" (Old Age), appeared in the People's Hymnal, 1867. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) =========== Born: January 6, 1832, Thame, Oxfordshire, England. Died: January 2, 1902, Lambeth, London, England. Lee attended Cuddesdon Theological College in Oxfordshire, and was ordained an Anglican minister in 1856. He served at St. John’s Church in Aberdeen. In 1867, he moved to All Saints’ Church in Lambeth, where he ministered to the poor for 32 years. He wrote a number of works in history, archaeology, theology, and poetry, and edited journals and newspapers. Retiring from All Saints’ in 1899, he converted to Roman Catholicism two years later. --www.hymntime.com/tch