John Dalton (1814–1874) was an English
Roman Catholic
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priest.
Life
Dalton was of Irish parentage, and passed the early years of his life at
Coventry
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. He received his education at
Sedgley Park School, and transferred in 1830 to
St Mary's College, Oscott, where he was ordained priest. He was engaged in the missions at
Northampton
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,
Norwich
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, and
King's Lynn
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, and became a member of the chapter of the diocese of Northampton.
From 1858 he was for a time at
St Alban's College, Valladolid
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. After his return from Spain he settled at St. John's Maddermarket, Norwich, where he spent the remainder of his days, with the exception of a brief interval in 1866, when Archbishop
Henry Manning sent him to Spain to collect subscriptions towards the erection in London of a cathedral in memory of Cardinal
Nicholas Wiseman. He died on 15 February 1874.
Works
Dalton published translations from the Latin and Spanish of various devotional works, including several by
Teresa of Avila. He wrote also:
*''
The Art of Dying Well
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'', (1847) translated from the Latin of
Robert Bellarmine.
*''The Life of St. Winifrede, translated from a MS. Life of the Saint in the British Museum, with an account of some miraculous cures effected at St. Winifrede's Well'', Lond. 1857.
*''The Life of Cardinal Ximenez'', Lond. 1860, translated from the German of
Karl Josef von Hefele
Karl Josef von Hefele (March 15, 1809 – June 6, 1893) was a Roman Catholic bishop and theologian of Germany.
Biography
Hefele was born at Unterkochen in Württemberg and was educated at Tübingen, where in 1839 he became professor-ordinary o ...
.
*''A Pilgrimage to the Shrines of St. Teresa de Jesus at Alba de Tormes and Avila'', Lond. 1873.
References
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1814 births
1874 deaths
19th-century English Roman Catholic priests