Herbert Vaughan

Herbert Cardinal Vaughan ( born April 15, 1832 in Gloucester, England; † June 19, 1903 in Mill Hill, England ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Westminster and founder of the Missionary Society of St.. Joseph of Mill Hill.

Life

Herbert Vaughan was the eldest son of eight sons and five daughters of Lieutenant Colonel John Francis Vaughan and his wife Eliza Rolls. Six sons were priests, of which three received episcopal ordination, Roger was Archbishop of Sydney ( Australia); John Francis was Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis in Armenia and Auxiliary Bishop of Salford; Bernard was known for religious scriptures. The five sisters went into convents and were sisters. His uncle was the Bishop of Plymouth William Vaughan. His education began in 1841 at the Jesuit College of Stonyhurst in 1847, he joined the Jesuit College Brugelette in Belgium. His studies began in 1850 at the Benedictine Downside, (England) and was continued from 1851 to 1854 in Rome at the Collegio Romano.

Ecclesiastical career

On October 28, 1854 he was ordained a priest in 1855 and took over the role of Deputy President at St. Edmund College. From 1861 to 1865 he undertook missions to Panama, Colombia, to the United States of America, to Peru, Chile and Brazil. After his return to Mill Hill, he began with the founding and building of the Mission Community of St.. Joseph of Mill Hill and was from 1866 to 1903 their religious superior. From 1866 until his death he undertook another mission trips to the south of the USA. In 1871 he became editor of the mission journal "The tablet", an international Catholic weekly magazine.

On September 27, 1872 he was appointed, and on October 28, 1872 Vaughan became Bishop of Salford consecrated by Cardinal Henry Edward Manning. The appointment as Archbishop of Westminster on April 8, 1892, the elevation to the status of a cardinal on 16 January 1893. Than cardinal priest with the titular church of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio During this time, he played an important role in the construction of Westminster Cathedral. Cardinal Vaughan died on 19 June 1903 and was first in the colleague of St.. Joseph was buried in Mill Hill. On 14 March 2005 his mortal remains of Mill Hill were converted into the Cathedral of Westminster, where he received his final resting place in the chapel of St. Thomas.

The dispute with St. George Mivart

When St. George Mivart in early 1900 in two articles in his views on hell reiterated and a God who had created such a place of torment, described as an evil god, he was after a short controversy with Cardinal Vaughan on January 18, 1900 excommunicated. This resulted in the publication of the book about the correspondence between Mivart and Vaughan.