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Marie Sister Jeanne

Person Name: Sister Jeanne Marie Hymnal Number: 6 Translator of "O dear little children" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed.

Antonio Lotti

1667 - 1740 Hymnal Number: 204 Composer of "[Regina coeli laetare, alleluia]" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed. Italian composer

1855 - 1913 Person Name: Father Conway, O.P. Hymnal Number: 86 Author of "Hail, full of grace and purity!" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed. Conway, John Placid, was b. May 23, 1855, at Glasgow, ordained 1880, and is now (1906) Dominican Prior at St. Sebastian's, Pendleton, Manchester. He contributed four hymns to the Dominican Hymn Book, 1881:— 1. All hail, great Conqueror, to Thee. Rosary. Glorious Mysteries. 2. Flow'r of innocence, Saint Thomas. St. Thomas Aquinas. 3. Hail, full of grace and purity. Rosary. Joyful Mysteries. 4. Lord, by Thy prayer in agony. Rosary. Sorrowful Mysteries. Nos. 1, 3, 4 are also in Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Josef Rheinberger

1839 - 1901 Person Name: J. Rheinberger Hymnal Number: 245 Composer of "[Confirma hoc Deus]" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed. Rheinberger, Joseph (Gabriel); b. Mar. 17, 1839, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, d. Nov. 25, 1901, Munich; German composer, organist, conductor, and teacher. LOC Name Authority file

Engelbert Humperdinck

1854 - 1921 Person Name: E. Humperkinck Hymnal Number: 13 Composer of "[Hark! the herald host is singing]" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed.

Tomás Luis de Vittoria

1548 - 1611 Person Name: T. L. de Vittoria Hymnal Number: 161a Composer of "[Jesu dulcis memoria]" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed.

Georgiana C. Fullerton

1812 - 1885 Person Name: Lady G. Fullerton Hymnal Number: 58 Author of "O Heart of Jesus, Heart of God" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed. Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte, daughter of the first Earl Granville, was born Sept. 23, 1812, at Tixall Hall, Staffs., married 1833 A. G. Fullerton of Ballintoy Castle, Antrim; was received into the Church of Rome 1846; d. Jan. 19, 1885, at Bournemouth. She was well known as a novelist (Ellen Middleton, 1844, &c.) and a philanthropist. She contributed to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, several translations, and the following Nos. 1-4 (all also in the Parochial Hymn Book, 1880):— 1. Christ's soldier, rise. Christian Warfare. 2. I'll never forsake thee, I never will be. Holy Roman Church. 3. In breathless silence kneel. Elevation of the Host. 4. Mary, mother! Shield us through life. Sailors. 5. O Heart of Jesus, Heart of God. Sacred Heart of Jesus. From her Gold-Digger and other Verses, 1872, p. 113, into Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Sister Mercedes

1846 - 1916 Person Name: Sr. Mercedes Hymnal Number: 101 Author of "Glorious Patron! low before Thee" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed. Pseudonym of Sister M. Antonio Gallagher Gallagher, Sister M. Antonio (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1846--June 6, 1916, Latrobe, Pennsylvania). When 10, she went to school at St. Joseph's Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland. When that was closed in the middle of the Civil War, she and her sister went further west to St. Xavier's Academy in what is now Latrobe, Penn., run by the Sisters of Mercy. Upon graduation, she entered their novitiate, taking the name in religion of Sister Mary Antonio and was professed in 1866. St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, awarded her the L.H.D. degree in 1911. For a number of years she taught in the parochial schools of Pittsburgh and worked with the poor of the city. Around 1890, she returned to St. Xavier's where she taught in the upper classes. She also supervised the school's paper, St. Xavier's Journal. She wrote over twenty school dramas and many articles, narrations of conversions, and other devotional literature for various journals using the pseudonym "Rev. Richard W. Alexander." Her inspirational poetry and hymns were published with the pseudonym "Sister Mercedes." Both verses and prose were collected and published in anthologies several times. One of her many final tributes reads: "Sr. M. Antonio, R.C.M., was in mind and heart a proficient religious woman, and God's love was her unvarying motive in all things." --Sr. Adele Caslin

James M. Raker

1864 - 1947 Person Name: Rev. J. M. Raker Hymnal Number: 88 Author of "O most holy one, O most lowly one" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed. Raker, James Martin. (Richmond, Virginia, June 28, 1864--April 10, 1947, California [Los Angeles? San Francisco?]. He studied at the Episcopal General Seminary, New York, N.Y., and after ordination to the ministry became choirmaster at the Cathedral School in Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin. He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1909 and studied for the priesthood at St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was ordained for the diocese of La Crosse, Wisc., on December 24, 1911, where he labored until he retired in 1936. He lived in O'Fallon, Missouri (1937-1938) and then retired to California where he died. His hymnal Catholic Hymns for the People, privately printed in 1919, reached a second edition in 1923. It contained 88 hymns in all and several of the translations were his own. His "O most holy one" appears in the St. Gregory Hymnal. --J. Vincent Higginson, DNAH Archives

T. C. Potter

Person Name: T. J. Potter Hymnal Number: 139 Author of "As fades the glowing orb of day" in The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Singers' ed., Melody ed.