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These included poems about the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, a poem that sympathetically describes St. Joseph's crisis of faith, about the traumatic but purgatorial sense of loss experienced by St. Mary Magdalen after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and about attending the Tridentine Mass on Christmas Day. [38]
Thomas Chisholm (songwriter) Thomas Obadiah Chisholm[a] (July 29, 1866 – February 29, 1960) was an American hymnwriter, poet, and Methodist minister. Chisholm was born on July 29, 1866, in a log cabin near Franklin, Kentucky. [4] He became a teacher at the age of 16. [5] Circa 1893, aged 27, Chisholm had a Christian conversion experience ...
Edward Mote 1797–1874. Edward Mote was a pastor and hymn writer. Born in London on 21 January 1797, his parents managed a pub and often left Edward to his own devices playing in the street. [1] Speaking of these childhood years he once said, "So ignorant was I that I did not know that there was a God." [2]
Joseph Scriven was born in 1819 of prosperous parents in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland. He graduated with a degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1842. His fiancée accidentally drowned in 1843, the night before they were to be married. [2] In 1844, at the age of 25, Scriven left his native country and migrated to Canada, settling in ...
Nationality. American. Other names. A. A. Payn, C. A. M. Notable work. "In the Garden". Charles Austin Miles (January 7, 1868 – March 10, 1946) was a prolific American writer of gospel songs, who is best known for his 1912 hymn "In the Garden". He studied at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of Pennsylvania.
Jean was a published poet from a young age and by the age of 35, she had authored a book of her verses called “A Royal Service.” The lyrics to her most famous poem and hymn, Jesus, I Am Resting, Resting, were first traced to that work. [3] Jean Sophia Pigott died at 37 on 12 October 1882 in Leixlip, County Kildare, where she is buried. [2]
The Olney Hymns / ˈoʊni / were first published in February 1779 and are the combined work of curate John Newton (1725–1807) and his poet friend William Cowper (1731–1800). The hymns were written for use in Newton's rural parish, which was made up of relatively poor and uneducated followers. The Olney Hymns are an illustration of the ...
Charlotte Elliott (18 March 1789 – 22 September 1871) was an English evangelical Anglican [1] poet, hymn writer, and editor. She is best known by two hymns, "Just As I Am" and "Thy will be done". [2] Elliott edited Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book (1834–1859) and The Invalid's Hymn book, 6th edition, 1854. [2]