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Thomas J. Potter

1828 - 1873 Person Name: Rev. T. J. Potter Hymnal Number: 40 Author of "Hail Thou, Who man's Redeemer art" in American Catholic 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)

Vincent Novello

1781 - 1861 Person Name: V. Novello Hymnal Number: 214 Composer of "[Hail, Jesus, hail, Who for my sake]" in American Catholic Hymnal

Matthew Russell

1834 - 1912 Person Name: Rev. M. Russell, S.J. Hymnal Number: 102 Author of "Come hither and in worship kneel" in American Catholic Hymnal Russell, Matthew, s. of Arthur Russell of Killowen, Co. Down, was b. July 13, 1834, at Newry, Co. Down, Ireland. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1857, and is now (1906) at St. Francis Xavier's Church, Dublin. He has published many small volumes containing verse, most of which, being printed in Dublin, have not reached the British Museum; and has collected the sacred verse he thinks worth preserving in Vespers and Compline, 1900, and Altar Flowers, 1900. The best known of his hymns are:— 1. A message from the Sacred Heart. Sacred Heart of Jesus. In St. Patrick's Hymn Book, Dublin, 1890. 2. O Mary, dearest Mother. May. No. 2 was first published in his Madonna, 1880, p. 23. See also Index of Authors and Translators. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Campbell

Person Name: Rev. Fr. Campbell Hymnal Number: 119 Author of "Unto all, O Jesus blest" in American Catholic Hymnal

Frederick Charles Husenbeth

1796 - 1872 Person Name: Rev. Dr. Husenbeth Hymnal Number: 242 Author of "Stars of glory, shine more brightly" in American Catholic Hymnal Husenbeth, F. C., D.D. His family originally belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. His father lived at Mannheim until the outbreak of the French Revolution, when he removed to Bristol, and established himself in business as a wine merchant. He married Miss James, a Cornish lady. F. C. Husenbeth was born at Bristol, May 30, 1796, and was educated at Sedgley Park School and Oscott College. Ordained in Feb., 1820. He became Priest of the Cossey Roman Catholic Mission, and retained his position for 52 years. He died Oct. 31, 1872. He published several works, including Missal for the Laity, 1840; an edition of the Roman Breviary, Norwich, 1830; and Vespers Book for the Use of the Laity, Lond. 1841. Notes and Queries, Ser. iv., vol. x., pp. 365, 388, 441. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================ Husenbeth, Frederic Charles, p. 1572, ii. His hymn “Stars of glory, shine more brightly” [Christmas], written 1862, is in O. Shipley's Lyra Messianica, 1864, p. 102, and Annus Sanctus, 1884, pt. ii., pp. iv, 27. Also in Hymns for the Year 1867, A. E. Tozer s Cath. Hymns, 1898, and Catholic Church Hymnal, 1905, St. Dominics's Hymn Book, 1901, &c. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Henry George Ganss

1855 - 1912 Person Name: H. G. Ganss Hymnal Number: 60 Composer of "[Long live the Pope! His praises sound]" in American Catholic Hymnal

James Dominick Ambrose Aylward

1813 - 1872 Person Name: Rev. J. D. Aylward, O.P. Hymnal Number: 94 Author of "Soul of my Saviour! sanctify my breast" in American Catholic Hymnal 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)

Sisters of Notre Dame

Person Name: S. N. D. Hymnal Number: 160 Author of "Farewell sweet month, sweet month of flowers" in American Catholic Hymnal

Mgr. Gibert

Hymnal Number: 89 Author of "No one needs Thee more than I" in American Catholic Hymnal

John Placid Conway

1855 - 1913 Person Name: Fr. P. Conway, O.P. Hymnal Number: 199 Author of "All hail, great Conqueror, to Thee" in American Catholic Hymnal Conway, John Placid, was b. May 23, 1855, at Glasgow, ordained 1880, and is now (1906) Dominican Prior at St. Sebastian's, Pendleton, Manchester. He contributed four hymns to the Dominican Hymn Book, 1881:— 1. All hail, great Conqueror, to Thee. Rosary. Glorious Mysteries. 2. Flow'r of innocence, Saint Thomas. St. Thomas Aquinas. 3. Hail, full of grace and purity. Rosary. Joyful Mysteries. 4. Lord, by Thy prayer in agony. Rosary. Sorrowful Mysteries. Nos. 1, 3, 4 are also in Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)