Herbert Vaughan

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Cardinal-priest
Personal details
Born
Herbert Alfred Vaughan

(1832-04-15)15 April 1832
Died19 June 1903(1903-06-19) (aged 71)
Mill Hill, United Kingdom
BuriedWestminster Cathedral
Previous post(s)Bishop of Salford (1872‍–‍1892)
SignatureHerbert Vaughan's signature

Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas Vaughan

St. Bede's College, Manchester. As Archbishop of Westminster, he led the capital campaign and construction of Westminster Cathedral
.

In 1871 Vaughan sent a group of Mill Hill priests to the United States to minister to freedmen. In 1893, the American branch of the society spun off, with Vaughan's permission, to form the Society of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, whose members are known as Josephites.

Early life and education

Herbert Vaughan was born at

Francis, became Bishop of Menevia, Wales
.

In 1841 Herbert, the eldest, went to study for six years at

Bath, England.[2]

In 1851 Vaughan went to Rome, and studied for two years at the Collegio Romano, where for a time he shared lodgings with the poet, Aubrey Thomas de Vere.[2] He became a friend and disciple of Henry Edward Manning. Manning, a Catholic convert, became the second Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster[3] following the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain in 1850.

Career

Vaughan received Holy Orders at

St Edmund's College, at that time the chief seminary in the south of England for candidates for the priesthood. Since childhood, Vaughan had been filled with zeal for foreign missions. He convinced Cardinal Wiseman and the bishops to agree to a proposal to build a seminary in England that would train priests to serve on missions throughout the British Empire. With this goal, he made a fund-raising trip to America in 1863,[4]
from which he returned with £11,000.

In 1868, Vaughan became proprietor of The Tablet. He wrote James McMaster, owner of the New York Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register, "No one can appreciate more highly than I do the great mission of the Catholic press in these days of steam and universal education."[4]

He succeeded in opening

freedmen in the South
.

In 1872 Vaughan was consecrated as the second Bishop of Salford,[4] succeeding Bishop William Turner. Vaughan relinquished his position as superior at St. Joseph's College, but in 1876 established St Bede's College,[5] conceived as a "commercial school" to prepare the sons of Manchester Catholics for a life in business and the professions. Vaughan chose to live at Hampton Grange, on the St. Bede's College campus, with his own Bishop's residence on Chapel Street in Salford being given over to a Seminary.

In 1879, as the most eminent local Catholic, Vaughan was chosen by the then Home Secretary,

Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio
.

Caricature of Archbishop Vaughan by Leslie Ward on 7 January 1893 edition of Vanity Fair (British magazine)

Vaughan was a man of different type from his predecessor; he had none of the ultramontane Manning's intellectual finesse or his ardor for social reform. Vaughan did however have a more open attitude to women's enfranchisement, reported as saying, "I believe that the extension of the Parliamentary Franchise to women upon the same conditions as it is held by men would be a just and beneficial measure, tending to raise rather than to lower the course of national legislation."[7] Vaughan was an ecclesiastic of remarkably fine presence and aristocratic leanings, intransigent in theological policy, and in personal character simply devout.

In 1893 the US Mill Hill mission, based in

Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Among its founders was the first African-American Catholic priest trained and ordained in the United States, Charles Uncles.[8]

It was due to this theological "purity" that Vaughan assisted in scuttling an opportunity for rapprochement between Rome and the Church of England that was put into motion by a high-church Anglican, Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax and a French priest, Ferdinand Portal. Through the efforts of Vaughan and Archbishop of Canterbury Edward White Benson, this early form of ecumenism was put down. It culminated with the condemnation of Anglican Orders by Pope Leo XIII in his bull, Apostolicae curae.

Cardinal Vaughan's tomb in the Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury, Westminster Cathedral

It was Vaughan's most cherished ambition to see an adequate

Requiem Mass was said there.[6] His body was interred at the cemetery of St. Joseph's College, the headquarters of the Mill Hill Missionaries in North London but it was moved back to the cathedral and reinterred in the Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury (the "Vaughan Chantry") in 2005.[1]

Legacy

Founded

Namesake

Published works

  • Vaughan, Herbert Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (1902). The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (Fourth ed.). St. Louis, Missouri: B. Herder.
  • Vaughan, Herbert Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (1904). Vaughan, Msgr Canon John Stephen (ed.). The Young Priest: Conferences on the Apostolic Life. London: W: Burns and Oates Ltd.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

See also

  • Catholic Church in Great Britain
     – Part of the worldwide Catholic Church
  • Bernard Vaughan, his brother – English Catholic Jesuit priest (1847–1922)

References

  1. ^ a b c Miranda, Salvador. "Herbert Vaughan". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
  2. ^
    The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016 – via New Advent
    .
  3. from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b c O'Neil, Robert (16 March 2016). "Cardinal Herbert Vaughan: the editor with a mission". The Tablet. Archived from the original on 28 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Our Founder; Part 5". Mill Hill Missionaries. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  6. ^ a b Martin, Fergal (12 April 2018). "Cardinal Vaughan: The shy, gifted communicator". Diocese of Salford. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Votes for Women! The Catholic Contribution – Diocese of Westminster". rcdow.org.uk. 23 February 2018. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  8. ^ ""Cardinal Herbert Vaughan papers", Mill Hill Missionaries' Archives". Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2019.

Sources

Further reading

  • O'Neil, Robert J. (1997). Cardinal Herbert Vaughan: Archbishop of Westminster, Bishop of Salford, Founder of the Mill Hill Missionaries. Burns & Oates. .

External links

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
William Turner
Bishop of Salford
1872–1892
Succeeded by
Preceded by Archbishop of Westminster
1892–1903
Succeeded by
Ss. Andrea e Gregorio al Monte

1893–1903
Succeeded by