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FABER, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1814-1863)

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FABER, See also:FREDERICK See also:WILLIAM (1814-1863) , See also:British hymn writer and theologian, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:June 1814 at See also:Calverley, See also:Yorkshire, of which See also:place his grandfather, See also:Thomas Faber, was See also:vicar. He attended the See also:grammar school of See also:Bishop See also:Auckland for a See also:short See also:time, but a large portion of his boyhood was spent in See also:Westmorland. He afterwards went to See also:Harrow and to Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford. In 1835 he obtained a See also:scholar-See also:ship at University College; and in 1836 he gained the See also:Newdigate See also:prize for a poem on " The Knights of St See also:John," which elicited See also:special praise from See also:Keble. Among his college See also:friends were See also:Dean See also:Stanley and Roundell See also:Palmer, 1st See also:earl of See also:Selborne. In See also:January 1837 he was elected See also:fellow of University College. Meanwhile he had given up the Calvinistic views of his youth, and had become an enthusiastic follower of John See also:Henry See also:Newman. In 1841 a travelling tutorship took him to the See also:continent; and on his return a See also:book appeared called See also:Sights and Thoughts in See also:Foreign Churches and among Foreign Peoples (See also:London, 1842), with a See also:dedication to his friend the poet See also:Wordsworth. He accepted the rectory of See also:Elton in See also:Huntingdonshire, but soon after went again to the continent, in See also:order to study the methods of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church; and after a prolonged See also:mental struggle he joined the Roman Catholic communion in See also:November 1845. He founded a religious community at See also:Birmingham, called Wilfridians, which was ultimately merged in the See also:oratory of St See also:Philip See also:Neri, with John Henry Newman as See also:Superior. In 1849 a See also:branch of the oratory—subsequently independent—was established in London, first in See also:King William See also:Street, and afterwards at See also:Brompton, over which Faber presided till his See also:death on the 26th of See also:September 1863. In spite of his weak See also:health, an almost incredible amount of See also:work was crowded into those years.

He published a number of theological See also:

works, and edited the Oratorian Lives of the See also:Saints. He was an eloquent preacher, and a See also:man of See also:great See also:charm of See also:character. It is mainly as a hymn-writer, however, that Faber is remembered. Among his best-known See also:hymns are: " The Greatness of See also:God," " The Will of God," " The Eternal See also:Father," " The God of my Childhood, " " Jesus is God," " The Pilgrims of the See also:Night," " The See also:Land beyond the See also:Sea," " Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go," " I was wandering and weary," and " The See also:Shadow of the See also:Rock." The hymns are largely used in See also:Protestant collections. •In addition to many See also:pamphlets and See also:translations, Faber published the following works: All for Jesus; The See also:Precious See also:Blood; See also:Bethlehem; The Blessed See also:Sacrament; The Creator and the Creature; Growth of Holiness; Spiritual Conferences; The See also:Foot of the See also:Cross (8 vols., London, 1853–186o). See his See also:Life and Letters, by Father J. E. Bowden (London, 1869), and A Brief See also:Sketch of the See also:Early Life of the See also:late F. W. Faber, D.D., by his See also:brother the Rev. F. A.

Faber (London, 1869).

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