1. Herbert Henry Charles Thurston was an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the Jesuit order, and a prolific scholar on liturgical, literary, historical, and spiritual matters.
13 Facts About Herbert Thurston
1. 2.
Herbert Thurston served as editor of Mother Mary Loyola, an international bestselling author of popular religious books.
3.
Herbert Thurston was born in London and educated at the minor seminary of Saint-Malo, at Mount St Mary's Jesuit school in Derbyshire, and at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.
4.
Herbert Thurston studied at the University of London where he earned a Latin exhibition in 1877 and received a bachelor's degree, along with a university prize, in 1878.
5.
Herbert Thurston was ordained as a priest on 21 September 1890.
6.
Herbert Thurston wrote more than 150 articles for the Catholic Encyclopedia, and published nearly 800 articles in magazines and scholarly journals, as well a dozen books.
7.
Herbert Thurston re-edited Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
8.
Many of Herbert Thurston's articles show a skeptical attitude towards popular legends about the lives of the saints and holy relics.
9.
Father Herbert Thurston joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1919, and he was a friend of psychical researcher Everard Feilding.
10.
Herbert Thurston attributed the phenomena of stigmata to the effects of suggestion.
11.
Herbert Thurston criticized Spiritualism for its confidence that mediums communicate with the dead.
12.
Herbert Thurston was a close friend of Father George Tyrrell, a fellow Jesuit priest who was sanctioned by the Catholic Church for his Modernist theological opinions.
13.
Herbert Thurston died in London in 1939 and was buried at the St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green.