George Brown (Benedictine)

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George Brown (died 21 October 1618), who later adopted the

Benedictine and prior of St Laurence, Dieulouard
. He was for some time identified as the anonymous translator of Life of St Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi (1619), an identification that is now challenged.

Biography

Brown was born in

Catholic missionaries for the conversion their home country.[2] According to Athanasius Allanson, Brown was "a diligent promoter" of Benedictine religious houses in France and the Low Countries. From 1613 until his death, Brown resided at Chelles Abbey, joining Francis Walgrave and Augustine Bradshaw, who had been invited there by Abbess Marie de Lorraine as chaplains to the monastery.[3] Here, Brown died on 21 October 1618.[1]

Life of St Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi (1619)

The English translation of the Italian biography of Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Life of St Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi (1619), was attributed to Brown by 19th-century Catholic Historian, George Oliver. This identification was based on Oliver's misidentification of Brown as chaplain of the English Benedictine monastery, St Benet, Brussels, established by his misreading of the monastery's convent chronicle. As the original translation had been dedicated to Lady Mary Percy, abbess of the Brussels monastery,[4] Oliver identified Brown as its author. This identification has been contested by A. F. Allison and D. M. Rogers, in their Contemporary printed literature of the English Counter-Reformation (1989), instead identifying Tobie Matthew as a more likely candidate.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3605. (Subscription or UK public library membership
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  2. ISBN 9780852443866
    .
  3. ^ Arblaster, Paul. "The Sixty Years of Foundation, 1615-1676" (PDF). Douai Abbey. p. 3. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  4. ^ Cooper, Thompson (1886). "Brown, George (d.1628)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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