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25-667: The society was founded in 1866 by Herbert Alfred Vaughan . In 1892, a separate North American offshoot, the Society of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (Josephites), was formed. The society was formerly based at St Joseph's College at Mill Hill in north London . The late 1960s saw the development of the Missionary Institute of London to consolidate training facilities for the various mission societies in Britain. St Joseph's College site

50-515: 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, R.A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross , to be one of

75-588: A Catholic convert, became the second Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster following the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain in 1850. Vaughan received Holy Orders at Lucca in 1854. On his return to England, he became Vice-President of 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

100-714: A capital campaign, with the result that the foundation stone for the cathedral was laid in 1895. When Vaughan died in 1903 at the age of 71, the building was so far complete that a Requiem Mass was said there. 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. Sebastopolis (Thrace) Seuthopolis ( Ancient Greek : Σευθόπολις)

125-538: A letter requesting clergy for that purpose to Vaughan, superior general at Mill Hill. In 1871, Vaughan led a group of priests to the US to establish a mission society to minister to freedmen in the South . In 1872 Vaughan was consecrated as the second Bishop of Salford , succeeding Bishop William Turner . Vaughan relinquished his position as superior at St. Joseph's College, but in 1876 established St Bede's College , conceived as

150-536: 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." Vaughan was an ecclesiastic of remarkably fine presence and aristocratic leanings, intransigent in theological policy, and in personal character simply devout. In 1893

175-524: 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. Herbert Vaughan was born at Gloucester , the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Vaughan, of an old recusant ( Catholic ) family, the Vaughans of Courtfield , Herefordshire . His mother, Eliza Rolls from The Hendre , Monmouthshire ,

200-514: The Catholic Church or a Catholic institution is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Herbert Alfred Vaughan Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas Vaughan MHM (15 April 1832 – 19 June 1903) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church . He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death in 1903, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893. He

225-572: 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 . It was Vaughan's most cherished ambition to see an adequate Westminster Cathedral . He worked untiringly to secure subscriptions for

250-716: The Mill Hill world present, a decision was taken to recruit Mill Hill Missionaries from Africa and Asia, our former mission areas, now flourishing with well-established churches planted and grown by Mill Hill Missionaries." There are now Mill Hill Society formation centres in Cameroon, East Africa, the Philippines, and India. As of 2014, the congregation has forty priests working within Ireland and twenty working internationally, with an average age of 73. This organization-related article on

275-597: The US Mill Hill mission, based in Baltimore, Maryland , reorganised with Vaughan's blessing as an independent institution, known as 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 . It was due to this theological "purity" that Vaughan assisted in scuttling an opportunity for rapprochement between Rome and

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300-605: 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, 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

325-486: The city were discovered and excavated in 1948 by Bulgarian archeologists during the construction of the Georgi Dimitrov (later renamed Koprinka) Reservoir. However, it was decided to continue with the construction and flood the dam, leaving Seuthopolis at its bottom. Despite the importance of the discovery, the government gave the archaeologists 6 years to research and preserve as much of the city as they could. One of

350-564: The college at Mill Hill was effectively closed for the duration of the war. In the 1960s, Pope John XXIII asked missionary societies to become involved in South America. As of 2019, the Mill Hill Missionaries are active in Brazil and Ecuador. On its 150th anniversary, an account of its history on the Diocese of Westminster website said in part: "At the 1988 Chapter, with representatives from all over

375-595: The eldest, went to study for six years at Stonyhurst College , then to the Jesuit school of Brugelette , Belgium (1846–1848), and then with the Benedictines at Downside Abbey , near Bath , England. 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 . He became a friend and disciple of Henry Edward Manning . Manning,

400-530: The great mission of the Catholic press in these days of steam and universal education." He succeeded in opening St Joseph's Foreign Missionary College , Mill Hill Park , London, in 1869. That same year, the Tenth Provincial Council of Baltimore passed a decree exhorting all bishops to establish missions and schools in their dioceses for African Americans. Subsequently, the Council Fathers wrote

425-519: The most important archaeological finds is the so-called "Great inscription" found in 1953 in the palace-citadel. It is written in Greek, which indicates that Thracians were already hellenised in the 3rd century BC. In 2005, Bulgarian architect Zheko Tilev proposed a project to uncover, preserve and reconstruct the city of Seuthopolis (the best-preserved Thracian city in Bulgaria) by means of a dam wall surrounding

450-467: The ruins in the middle of the dam, enabling the site's inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and making it a tourist destination of world importance. Tourists would be transported to the site by boats. The round wall, 420 metres in diameter , would enable visitors to see the city from 20 metres above and would also feature "hanging gardens", glass lifts, a quay, restaurants, cafés, shops, ateliers, etc. It would be illuminated at night. The project

475-491: The trustees of the £1,000 compensation paid to a Whalley Range farm labourer, William Habron, pardoned for the murder of PC Nicholas Cock. In 1892 Vaughan succeeded Manning as Archbishop of Westminster, receiving the cardinal's hat in 1893 as Cardinal-Priest of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio . 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

500-497: Was a Catholic convert and intensely religious. All five of the Vaughan daughters became nuns, while six of the eight sons received Holy Orders and became priests. Two were later called as bishops in addition to Herbert: Roger became Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and John became titular bishop of Sebastopolis and auxiliary bishop in Salford, England . A nephew, Francis , became Bishop of Menevia, Wales . In 1841 Herbert,

525-552: Was a priest–king: the high priest of the Cabeiri among the Odrysian Thracians. According to Seuthopolis’ sign, the sanctuary of Dionysius / Sabazios was situated on the square. The cemetery of Seuthopolis included a number of brick tholos tombs, some covered by tumuli , in which the upper-class were interred, sometimes along with their horses. The less affluent were cremated, with modest grave goods laid alongside. The ruins of

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550-696: Was an ancient hellenistic -type city founded by the Thracian king Seuthes III between 325–315 BC which was the capital of the Odrysian kingdom . Its ruins are now located at the bottom of the Koprinka Reservoir near Kazanlak , Stara Zagora Province , in central Bulgaria . Several kilometres north of the city is the Valley of the Thracian Rulers where many magnificent royal tombs are located. Seuthopolis

575-569: Was closed in 2006. Its present headquarters are at 6 Colby Gardens in Maidenhead , Berkshire SL6 7GZ. In 1884, St Peter's School, Freshfield , near Liverpool was founded to serve as a preparatory school to the college. During the Second World War . the college was evacuated to Lochwinnoch in Scotland. The war ministry then requisitioned part of the buildings for the use of the civil service;

600-524: Was not a true polis , but rather the seat of Seuthes and his court. His palace had a dual role, functioning also as a sanctuary of the Cabeiri , the gods of Samothrace . Most of the space within the city was occupied not by homes but by official structures, the majority of the people living outside the city. It had Thracian and Greek populace. In 281 BC it was sacked by Celts . The dual role of Seuthes' palace (royal court and sanctuary) indicates that Seuthes

625-469: Was the founder in 1866 of St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society , known best as the Mill Hill Missionaries. He also founded the Catholic Truth Society and 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,

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