Basil W. Maturin

Basil William Maturin ( * February 15 1847 in Ireland; † May 7, 1915 in the Atlantic off Ireland) was an Irish clergyman, author, and in 1913 chaplain of the University of Oxford. He has published several books, which dealt with religious and psychological themes.

Life

Basil Maturin was born 1847 in Ireland, the third of ten children of the pastor, Dr. William Basil Maturin ( 1806-1887 ) and his wife Jane, née Cook. He was a grandson of Irish writer Charles Robert Maturin. He attended Trinity College in Dublin and originally belonged to the Anglican Church. In 1870, he was ordained in the Church of England and went as trustee after Peterstow, a village in the English county of Herefordshire. There he was only a few years worked, but left a big impression in the community and brought many to go to church. On February 22, 1873 began his novitiate in Cowley, St. John's, Oxford.

In 1876 he became a member of the Anglican Order Society of St. John the Evangelist. In the same year he was sent to Philadelphia, where he was first minister and later rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Clement 's Church. During his time in Philadelphia, the St. Clement's -Arms Hospital was built. He was also a friend of Arthur Hall, the Bishop of Vermont. 1890 returned Maturin return to England. In 1897 he turned the age of 50 years, the Roman Catholic faith and was ordained in 1898 by Cardinal Herbert Vaughan.

Both before and after his conversion Maturin was known for his preaching and his psychological expertise. He settled in London, parish priest of the Archdiocese of Westminster and published several religious and psychological books. In 1913 he was appointed chaplain of the University of Oxford. 1914, the parish of The Holy Redeemer he was also offered in Chelsea.

In the spring of 1915 Maturin preached in the U.S. and went on May 1, 1915 in New York First Class as a passenger on board the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, to return to England. On May 7, the Lusitania was sunk a few miles off the southern Irish coast by German submarine U 20 by torpedo attack. The following day the Lusitania would have reached their destination Liverpool. The reports of survivors, according to eyewitnesses, he was " pale, but not fearful ." He was not wearing a life vest and boarded no lifeboat, but filed a toddler in one of the boats with the prompt "Finding his mother ." He also gave several passengers absolution. Maturin was among the 1198 deaths of the woodwork. His body (# 223 ) was developed by two fishermen in the Ballycotton Bay found. He could only be based on the papers and valuables, which he carried with him identified. The funeral took place at London's Brompton Oratory.

Works (selection)

• Some Principles and Practices of the Spiritual Life (1896 )
• Laws of the Spiritual Life (1908 )
• Self- Knowledge and Self - Discipline (1909 )
• Christian Self- Mastery
• The Price of Unity (1912 )
• Sermons and Sermon Notes

Swell

• Biography of Father Basil Maturin
• Biographical information and excerpts from letters Maturin
• Short biography in The Lusitania Resource
• Pedigree of the Maturin family

• Author
• Anglican cleric (19th Century )
• Roman Catholic priest ( 20th century)
• Person (Oxford)
• Irishman
• Born in 1847
• Died in 1915
• Man