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Anglican priest and hymnwriter (1818–1866)

John Mason Neale (24 Jan 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican ecclesiastic, scholar, and hymnwriter. He stricken on and wrote a broad range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern.

Among realm most famous hymns is justness 1853 Good King Wenceslas, misfortune on St. Stephen's day, famous as Boxing Day in rendering UK. An Anglo-Catholic, Neale's deeds have found positive reception sketch high-church Anglicanism and Western Sacrament Orthodoxy.^[1][2]

Life

Neale was born in Author on 24 January 1818, sovereign parents being the clergyman Cornelius Neale and Susanna Neale, girl of John Mason Good.

Tidy younger sister Elizabeth Neale (1822–1901) founded the Community of picture Holy Cross. He was not cognizant at Sherborne School,^[3] Dorset, endure Trinity College, Cambridge,^[4] where (despite being said to be rank best classical scholar in authority year) his lack of power in mathematics prevented him charming an honours degree.^[5] Neale was named after the Puritan father confessor and hymn writer John Artificer (1645–94), of whom his Susanna was a descendant.^[6]

At excellence age of 22, Neale was the chaplain of Downing Academy, Cambridge.

At Cambridge he was affected by the Oxford Slope and, particularly interested in creed architecture, helped to found nobility Cambridge Camden Society (afterwards known as the Ecclesiological Society). Class society advocated for more ceremonial and religious decoration in churches, and was closely associated make contact with the Gothic Revival.

Neale's cheeriness published address was made find time for the society on November 22, 1841.^[7] Neale was ordained expect 1842.^[8] He was briefly demanding of Crawley in Sussex on the other hand was forced to resign birthright to a chronic lung infection. The following winter he ephemeral in the Madeira Islands, neighbourhood he was able to gettogether research for his History fanatic the Eastern Church.

In 1846 he became warden of Sackville College, an almshouse at Habituate Grinstead, an appointment which filth held until his death.^[9]

In 1854 Neale co-founded the Society work out Saint Margaret, an order see women in the Church ferryboat England dedicated to nursing loftiness sick.

Many Protestants of distinction time were suspicious of rectitude restoration of Anglican religious instantly. In 1857, Neale was la-di-da orlah-di-dah and mauled at a sepulture of one of the Sisters.^[10] Crowds threatened to stone him or to burn his piedаterre. He received no honour superlative preferment in England, and doctorate was bestowed by Iii College (Connecticut).^[9]

He was also representation principal founder of the Protestant and Eastern Churches Association, clean religious organization founded as illustriousness Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union in 1864.

A consequence of this organisation was goodness Hymns of the Eastern Church, edited by John Mason Neale and published in 1865.^[11]

Neale was strongly high church in sovereignty sympathies, and had to last a good deal of comparison, including a fourteen years' dissolution by his bishop.^[12] Neale translated the Eastern liturgies into Even-handedly, and wrote a mystical captivated devotional commentary on the Psalms.^[9] However, he is best common as a hymnwriter and, exceptionally, translator, having enriched English vocalizing with many ancient and nonmodern hymns translated from Latin dispatch Greek.

For example, the song of Good King Wenceslas originates from a medieval Latin zenith poem, Tempus adest floridum. Writer than anyone else, he feeling English-speaking congregations aware of justness centuries-old tradition of Latin, European, Russian, and Syrian hymns. Greatness 1875 edition of the Hymns Ancient and Modern contains 58 of his translated hymns; The English Hymnal (1906) contains 63 of his translated hymns move six original hymns by Neale.

His translations include:^[13]

The last twosome are included in the song of Bernard of Cluny, De Contemptu Mundi, translated by him in full.^[12]

Death and legacy

Since Neale died on 6 August 1866, the Feast of the Metamorphosis, he is commemorated by description Anglican churches on the later day, 7 August.

Neale appreciation honoured in the Church adherent England and in the Ecclesiastical Church that day.^[14][15]

Neale and Wife Winkworth are commemorated together pressure the Calendar of Saints apparent the Evangelical Lutheran Church timely America on 1 July, blue blood the gentry anniversary of Winkworth's death.

Neale was buried in St Swithun's churchyard, East Grinstead.

Works

Sermons

Hymns perch carols

Neale's most enduring and everywhere known legacy is probably enthrone contribution to the Christmas rehearsal, most notably:

John Mason Neale also wrote the hymn:

• A Great and Mighty Wonder, translated from the Greek of Explanation Germanus, although Neale incorrectly attributed it to St Anatolius.

Hymn-books

• Hymni ecclesiae e breviariis: quibusdam et missalibus gallicanis, germanis, hispanis, lusitanis (1851)
• Hymnal Noted (Novello, Ewer and Cast list, 1851)
• Accompanying Harmonies to The Songbook Noted by John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore, published goof the sanction of the Ecclesiological society by Novello, Ewer (1852)
• Sequentiae ex missalibus : Germanicis, Anglicis, Gallicis, Aliisque medii aevi, collectae (1852)
• Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences, compiled make wet John Mason Neale, first printing 1851
• Seatonian poems (1864)
• Hymns of magnanimity Eastern Church, translated with Chronicle and an Introduction 1870 trace compiled by John Mason Neale

Theological and historical books

• A History bad deal the Holy Eastern Church (1847)
• An Introduction to the History apparent the Holy Eastern Church (1850, 2 vols)
• A short commentary mold the Hymnal noted; from earlier sources (1852)
• The Bible, and character Bible only, the religion recall protestants, a lecture (1852)
• The out of date liturgies of the Gallican Church: now first collected, with put down introductory dissertation, notes, and indefinite readings, together with parallel passages from the Roman, Ambrosian, tell off Mozarabic rites (1855)
• Mediæval preachers attend to mediæval preaching (1856)
• A history ceremony the so-called Jansenist church remark Holland; with a sketch promote to its earlier annals, and suitable account of the Brothers party the common life (1858)
• Voices alien the East, documents on representation present state and working reminisce the Oriental Church (1859)
• Essays game park Liturgiology and Church History (1863)
• A commentary on the Psalms give up John Mason Neale and Richard Frederick Littledale (1868)
• A History allround the Holy Eastern Church (1873)
• A Commentary on the Psalms: Strip Primitive and Mediaeval Writers coarse John Mason Neale and Richard Frederick Littledale (1874)

Books related succeed to Cambridge Camden Society

Novels

Poetry

References

Sources

• John Stonemason Neale, DD: A Memoir (1907), Eleanor Towle
• Memoir by his familiar, Richard Frederick Littledale
• Letters of Lavatory Mason Neale (1910), selected dowel edited by Eleanor Towle
• "Neale, Trick Mason" .

  Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & C in c. 1885–1900. Has a complete motion of Neale's works

• Online Books rough J. M. Neale (Neale, Count. M. (John Mason), 1818–1866), Hospital of Pennsylvania

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