Theobald Mathew

Father Mathew

Theobald Mathew (born October 10, 1790 at Thomastown Castle near Golden , County Tipperary , † December 8, 1856 in Cobh ) was an Irish Catholic clergyman. In 1838 he founded the Knights of Father Mathew , a pioneer of the movement for alcohol abstinence .

Life

Thomastown Castle, the seat of the Mathew family, where Theobald Mathew was born and raised

Theobald Mathew was born into a Catholic land-owning family in Tipperary, thanks to the patronage of the Duke of Ormond in the 17th century and the conversion of the family head to the Church of Ireland in the early 18th century, their property despite the restoration and the penal laws could keep . Despite the conversion, the heads of families were viewed as cryptocatholics , who then won the House of Commons elections several times with a large majority of the Catholic population . Theobald's father, James Mathew, was a cousin of the first Earl of Landaff , Francis Mathew (1744-1806), and served him as an agent.

Theobald Mathew began his studies at St Patrick's College in Maynooth , but had to leave it and then joined the Order of the Capuchins in Dublin in 1808 . In 1814 he was ordained a priest by the Dublin coadjutor Daniel Murray and then transferred to Cork . In 1828 he became Provincial of the Irish Capuchins.

literature

Father Mathew, the Irish indulgences apostle . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 8 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig August 19, 1843, p. 120 ( books.google.de ).
John Francis Maguire: Father Mathew. A biography . Longman Green, London 1863 (reprint: Thoemmes Press et al., Bristol et al. 2002 ( Political and cultural analysis of Ireland 5)).
Mathew, Theobald . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 17 : Lord Chamberlain - Mecklenburg . London 1911, p. 886 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Father Augustine: Theobald Mathew . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.
Elizabeth Malcolm: Mathew, Theobald . In: Brian Lalor (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Ireland . Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-300-09442-6 , pp. 700-701 .

Web links

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Remarks

↑ ^a ^b See entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
↑ See Mathew . In: SJ Connolly (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Irish History . Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-211695-9 .
↑ See Charles Chenevix Trench: Grace's Card: Irish Catholic Landlords 1690-1800 . Mercier Press, 1997, ISBN 1-85635-163-7 , pp. 149-153 .
^ Hugh Pawley Mathew, Saffron Walden: Mathew family, of Llandaff, Radyr, and Castell y Mynach - all in Glamorgan. In: Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved June 14, 2009 .
↑ See Malcolm and Catholic Encyclopedia.
↑ See Catholic Encyclopedia; on Daniel Murray see Royal Historical Society (ed.): Handbook of British Chronology . Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-56350-X , pp. 426 .
↑ See Malcolm

personal data
SURNAME	Mathew, Theobald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish religious (Capuchin) and founder of an Irish abstinence movement
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH	at Golden
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1856
Place of death	Cobh

[CE-1] See entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia.

[2] See Mathew . In: SJ Connolly (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Irish History . Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-211695-9 .

[3] See Charles Chenevix Trench: Grace's Card: Irish Catholic Landlords 1690-1800 . Mercier Press, 1997, ISBN 1-85635-163-7 , pp. 149-153 .

[4] Hugh Pawley Mathew, Saffron Walden: Mathew family, of Llandaff, Radyr, and Castell y Mynach - all in Glamorgan. In: Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved June 14, 2009 .

[5] See Malcolm and Catholic Encyclopedia.

[6] See Catholic Encyclopedia; on Daniel Murray see Royal Historical Society (ed.): Handbook of British Chronology . Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-56350-X , pp. 426 .

[7] See Malcolm