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Aloys Schloer

1805 - 1852 Hymnal Number: d118 Author of "While ages course along" in The St. Cecilia Hymnal. 4th 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)

Silvio Antoniano

1540 - 1603 Hymnal Number: d109 Author of "The praises of that saint we sing" in The St. Cecilia Hymnal. 4th ed. Cardinal Silvio Antoniano, was born at Rome in 1540. Through the influence and patronage of Pope Pius IV. he became Professor of the Belles Lettres in the Collegio Romano, and subsequently rose to be the head of the college, and a cardinal. He died in 1603. [Rev. W. A. Shoults, B.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 382 (1907)

Eleanor C. Donnelly

1838 - 1917 Hymnal Number: d49 Author of "Hear the heart of Jesus pleading" in The St. Cecilia Hymnal. 4th ed. Donnelly, Eleanor C. (September 6, 1838--April 30, 1917). Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in West Chester, Penn. Her prolific writings were largely of a religious and devotional character. Her poems, the best of which, a hymn to the Blessed Virgin, was written at the age of nine, have been collected and edited by D. I. McDermott. Many of her hymns in common use appeared to music in Hymns of the Sacred Heart, 1912, published by the Society of the Divine Word. Those in common use from this collection are: Sacred Heart in accents burning Hear the heart of Jesus pleading Heart of Jesus dearest treasure Like a strong and raging fire Peace be still Another, "Dearest of all mothers," appears in the St. Rose Hymnal. --J. Vincent Higginson, DNAH Archives

W. H. H. Jervois

1852 - 1905 Person Name: W. H. Jervois Hymnal Number: d33 Author of "Father, see thy [your] children bending [standing]" in The St. Cecilia Hymnal. 4th ed. Born: October 1852, Alderney, Channel Islands, United Kingdom (where his father was stationed) Died: August 5, 1905, St. Marylebone, London, England. Jervois, William Henry Hammond, M.A., was born in Oct. 1852 on the Isle of Alderney, where his father, W. F. D. Jervois, afterwards Lieut. General, was then stationed. He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1876, M.A. 1878), and was ordained D. 1878, P. 1879. He became Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, London, in 1896, and died Aug. 5, 1905. He was, until his death, a member of the Committee who compiled The English Hymnal, 1906, and contributed to it:— 1. Father, see Thy children bending at Thy throne. Holy Communion. This was jointly with the Rev. W. R Trevelyan, Vicar of St. Matthew's, Westminster, London. 2. See, Father, Thy beloved Son. Holy Communion. 3. Wherefore, O Father, we Thy humble servants. Holy Communion. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

A. J. Christie

1817 - 1891 Hymnal Number: d118 Author of "While ages course along" in The St. Cecilia Hymnal. 4th ed. Christie, Albany James, M.A., was b. in London Dec. 18, 1817, entered Oriel Coll., Oxford, 1835 (B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842), and was Fellow of Oriel from 1840 until he was received into the Church of Rome in 1845. In 1847 he became a member of the Society of Jesus, in 1856 was appointed Superior of the Jesuit Seminary at Stonyhurst, Lanca., in 1858 went on mission work, and in 1862 came to Farm Street Church, London. He died in London May 2, 1891, (De Backer, 1891, ii. App. p. xi.). In the Appendix to his The First Christmas, 1876, are a number of hymns, three of which have passed into use, viz.:— 1. Brethren, see in Mary's birth. Nativity of B. V. M. 2. One Virgin sought, another. St. Lucy. 3. To Jesus' Heart, all burning. The Sacred Heart. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

James Dominick Ambrose Aylward

1813 - 1872 Person Name: Dominic Aylward Hymnal Number: d53 Author of "If great wonders thou desirest" in The St. Cecilia Hymnal. 4th ed. Aylward, James Ambrose, born in 1813, at Leeds, and educated at Hinckley, the Dominican Priory of St. Peter, to which a secular college was attached. Particulars touching the stages of his monastic life may be found in the Obituary Notices of the Friar-Preachers, or Dominicans, of the English Province from the year of our Lord 1650. He was ordained in 1836, and assisted in the school, taking the higher classical studies, in 1842. He became head of the school, and continued so till it was discontinued in 1852. At Woodchester he was made successively Lector of Philosophy and Theology and Prior. He died at Hinckley, and was buried in the cloister-yard of Woodchester. His sacred poems have become his principal monument, and of these he contributed very many to the first three volumes of the Catholic Weekly Instructor and other periodicals. His essay on the Mystical Element in Religion, and on Ancient and Modern Spiritism, was not published till 1874. Referring to him, and to his manuscript translation of Latin hymns, a large number of which are incorporated by Mr. O. Shipley in Annus Sanctus, 1884, Mr. Shipley says: “The second collection of manuscripts came from the pen of the late Very Rev. Father Aylward, of the Order of Preachers, a cultured and talented priest of varied powers and gifts, whose memory is held dear by all who knew and were influenced by him. He went to his reward in the year 1872, after nearly forty years' profession as a Dominican, and was buried in the picturesque cloistral-cemetery of Woodchester, of which model and peaceful religious house he was the first Prior." [J. C. Earle, A.B.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)