13 Facts About Vincent McNabb

Joseph McNabb was born in Portaferry, County Down, Ireland, the tenth of eleven children.

Vincent McNabb was educated during his schooldays at the diocesan seminary of St Malachy's College, Belfast.

Vincent McNabb underwent his novitiate at Woodchester, and was professed on 28 November 1889 and ordained on 19 September 1891.

Vincent McNabb studied at the University of Louvain, receiving the degree of lector in sacred theology in 1894.

Vincent McNabb was a member of the Dominican order for 58 years and served as professor of philosophy at Hawkesyard Priory, prior at Woodchester, parish priest at St Dominic's Priory, and prior and librarian at Holy Cross Priory, Leicester, as well as in various other official capacities for his Dominican province.

Vincent McNabb was a frequent contributor to Blackfriars, the Dominican literary monthly published in Oxford.

Vincent McNabb was described as a 13th-century monk living in 20th-century London, pursuing such tasks as reading the Old Testament in Hebrew, reading the New Testament in Greek, and reading the works of St Thomas Aquinas in Latin.

Vincent McNabb had little to call his own, except his Bible, his breviary, and his copy of the Summa Theologica.

Vincent McNabb was among the early Catholic apologists who were seeking in particular to promote reunion between the Catholic Church and the Anglicans.

Vincent McNabb regarded him as one of his "masters and heroes" and wrote his biography.

Vincent McNabb was host to his Cotswolds neighbour, the Rev Spencer Jones, rector of Moreton-in-Marsh, leading Anglo-Catholic and author of England and the Holy See: An Essay Towards Reunion.

Vincent McNabb contributed to the early issues of The Lamp, a paper edited by Fr.

Vincent McNabb died at St Dominic's Parish, London and was buried in St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, London.