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Aloys Schloer

1805 - 1852 Hymnal Number: ad134 Author of "To Jesus' heart all burning with fervent love for men" in The Garland of Praise. 2nd ed. Schlör, Aloys, D.D., was born at Vienna, June 17, 1805, and took the degree of D.D. at the University of Vienna in 1832. From May 10, 1842, to his death he was father confessor at the Theological Seminary (Spiritual des Priester-seminars) at Graz, Styria, Austria. He died at Graz, Nov. 2, 1852. His well-known hymn, "Dem Herzen Jesu singe " (p. 1628, ii.), was written in 1852. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Wilhelm Molitor

Hymnal Number: ad110 Author of "O help us and hear us" in The Garland of Praise. 2nd ed.

Michael Denis

Hymnal Number: d3 Author of "Clouds of heaven, shower the Just One" in The Garland of Praise. 2nd ed.

Charles Constantine Pise

1802 - 1866 Hymnal Number: ad39 Author of "First floweret [flower] of the desert wild" in The Garland of Praise. 2nd ed. Pise, Charles Constantine, was born in 1802 at Annapolis, Md., graduated at Georgetown, D.C., and was ordained in 1825. He was for some time attached to St. Patrick's Church, Washington, and while there, was, by the influence of Henry Clay, appointed chaplain to the U.S. Senate, the only time the post has ever been held by a Roman Catholic. In 1849 he became Rector of the Church of St. Charles Borromeo in Brooklyn, N.Y., and died at Brooklyn, May 26, 1866. Two hymns by him are in the Appendix to the N.Y. edition of E. Caswall's Lyra Catholica (1851, pp. 422, 427), and are repeated in Hymns for the Year 1867, viz.:— 1. First flow'ret of the desert wild. S. Rose of Lima. 2. Let the deep organ swell the lay. S. Cecilia. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)