John Mason Neale

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John Mason Neale

John Mason Neale (born January 24, 1818 in London , †  August 6, 1866 ) was an Anglican theologian, priest, writer and translator of hymns.

Life

John Mason Neale was born to the Anglican clergyman Cornelius Neale and his wife Susanna, the daughter of the British medical doctor John Mason Good . His first names as well as those of his grandfather refer to the Puritan clergyman and hymn poet John Mason (1645–1695), from whom Neale's mother was descended. His father died when Neale was five years old. He attended Trinity College , Cambridge and was ordained in 1842 . He was offered a parish, but he had to turn it down because of his poor health. In 1846 he became head of Sackville College , a charitable organization in East Grinstead , and worked there until the end of his life.

Already in Cambridge Neale had come into contact with the Oxford movement and was a co-founder of the Cambridge Camden Society , which was later called the Ecclesiological Society .

In the spring of 1851 Neale met Johannes van Santen , the Dutch old Catholic archbishop of Utrecht , on a trip to Utrecht . In October 1854, Neale again spent some time in Utrecht, doing research in the archiepiscopal archives, which was incorporated into his book A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland , published in 1858 .

In 1854 Neale helped found the St. Margaret Sisterhood, an Anglican women's order devoted to nursing and which still exists today with the mother house in East Grinstead and a branch in Sri Lanka .

Nine years earlier, John Henry Newman , one of the leading figures in the Oxford movement, had converted to Roman Catholicism . The supporters of Anglo-Catholicism were therefore suspected of being agents of the Vatican who were supposed to infiltrate the Anglican Church and bring it to Rome. Many Anglicans were suspicious of anything that appeared Catholic. This suspicion now also hit Neale, which is why he was attacked after the funeral of one of the nuns. In England he received no further attention, and his doctorate was awarded to him by Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut .

Neale was highly ecclesiastical throughout his life and therefore received a lot of opposition, even from his bishop, who suspended him from the priesthood for a total of fourteen years. At times, strangers even threatened him with stoning or with his house being burned down.

Neale translated some hymns into English. His translation O come, O come, Emmanuel of the Advent hymn Veni, veni, Emmanuel was translated into German by Otmar Schulz in 1975 as O komm, o komm, du Morgenstern ( EG 19).

Works (selection)

  • History of the Holy Eastern Church with The Patriarchate of Alexandria and The Patriarchate of Antioch in the appendix . 5 volumes, London, 1850–73. (The first two volumes were published as early as 1847.)
  • A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland . Oxford 1858.
  • O come, O come, Emmanuel . In: Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences 1851; 2nd edition 1863.
  • Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix . 1858.
  • Essays on Liturgiology . 1863.
  • The Ancient Liturgies of the Gallican Church .

Remembrance day

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b John Mason Neale: A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland . Oxford 1858, foreword.
  2. ↑ July 1st in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
personal data
SURNAME Neale, John Mason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Anglican theologian, priest and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1866