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BRIDGETT, THOMAS EDWARD (1829 – 1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 558 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRIDGETT, See also:THOMAS See also:EDWARD (1829 – 1899) , See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:priest and See also:historical writer, was See also:born at See also:Derby on the loth of See also:January 1829. He was brought up a Baptist, but in his sixteenth See also:year joined the See also:Church of See also:England. In 1847 he entered St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, with the intention of taking orders. Being unable to subscribe to the See also:Thirty-Nine Articles he could not take his degree, and in 185o became a Roman Catholic, soon afterwards joining the See also:Congregation of the Redemptorists. He went through his novitiate at St Trond in See also:Belgium, and after a course of five years of theological study at Wittem, in See also:Holland, was ordained priest. He returned to England in 1856, and for over See also:forty years led an active See also:life as a missioner in England and See also:Ireland, See also:preaching in over 8o See also:missions and 140 retreats to the See also:clergy and to nuns. His stay' in See also:Limerick was particularly successful, and he founded a religious confraternity of laymen which numbered 5000 members. Despite his arduous life as a priest, Bridgett found See also:time to produce See also:literary See also:works of value, chiefly dealing with the See also:history of the See also:Reformation in England; among these are The Life of Blessed John See also:Fisher, See also:Bishop of See also:Rochester (1888); The Life and Writings of See also:Sir Thomas More (189o); History of the See also:Eucharist in See also:Great See also:Britain (2 vols., 1881) ; Our See also:Lady's See also:Dowry (1875, 3rd ed. 189o). He died at Clapham on the 17th of See also:February 1899. For a See also:complete See also:list of Bridgett's works see The Life of See also:Father Bridgett, by C. See also:Ryder (See also:London, 1906).

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