- William Henry Anderdon
William Henry Anderdon (
26 December ,1816 -28 July ,1890 ) was an EnglishJesuit andwriter , born inLondon , . [CathEncy|wstitle=William Henry Anderdon]After three years at
King's College London , he matriculated at Oxford, when about nineteen, and enteredBalliol College . Soon after, he won a scholarship at University College, and took a degree in 1840. He receivedAnglican ordination , became vicar ofWithyam , and in 1846 of St. Margaret'sLeicester . In 1850 he was received into theCatholic Church in Paris by FatherGustave Delacroix de Ravignan . Ordained atOscott byBishop Ullathorne in 1853, he was appointed a lecturer atUshaw College and afterwards a preacher and confessor at University Church inDublin . During his stay inIreland theFranciscan convent ofDrumshambo was founded, mainly through his efforts. In 1856, he was called to London by his uncle, CardinalHenry Edward Manning , whose secretary he remained until he joined the Jesuits in 1872. From 1875 to 1889 he lived inManchester , working as preacher, spiritual guide, and writer.Father Anderdon began his literary
apostulate by writing Catholic tales: "Bonneval, the Story of the Fronde" (1857); "Owen Evans, the Catholic Crusoe" (1962); "Afternoons with the Saints" (1863), "In the Snow, Tales of Mt. St. Bernard" (1866). All these stories, save the first, went through nine or ten editions, and were translated into German and French. Other valuable works from his pen are "Fasti Apostolici" (1882), "Evening with the Saints" (1883) and "Britain's Early Faith" (1887). His method in his writings was to understand rather than to exaggerate. Among his works, the best known are "Is Ritualism Honest?", "Controversial Papers" (1878), "Luther's Words and the Word of God" (8th thousand, 1883), "Luther at Table", "What sort of man was Luther?" (13th thousand, 1883). What do Catholics Really Believe?", "Confession to a Priest" (1881).His
newspaper work displayed a fine sense of irony in treating the polemics of the day. He was ever busy writing for the "Weekly Register", the (English) "Messenger of the Sacred Heart", the "Xaverian", "Merry England", the "Month", the "Irish Monthly", and other serial publications. His last works were "The Old Religion of Taunton" (1890); and "Five Minutes' Sermons", the latter completed only in part at his death.References
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