Herbert Vaughan

Herbert Alfred Vaughan was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893. He was the founder in 1866 of St Josephs Foreign Missionary College, known as Mill Hill Missionaries. He also founded the Catholic Truth Society. In 1871 Vaughan led a group of priests to the United States to form a mission society whose purpose was to minister to freedmen. In 1893 the society reorganized to form the USbased St. Joseph Society of the Sacred Heart, known as the Josephite Fathers. Vaughan also founded St. Bedes College, Manchester. As Archbishop of Westminster, he led the capital campaign and construction of Westminster Cathedral.

Herbert Vaughan was born at Gloucester, the eldest son of LieutenantColonel John Francis Vaughan, of an old recusant family, the Vaughans of Courtfield, Herefordshire. His mother, Eliza Rolls from The Hendre, Monmouthshire, was a Catholic convert and intensely religious. All five of the Vaughan daughters became nuns, while six of the eight sons received Holy Orders and became priests. Three were later called as bishops in addition to Herbert Roger became Archbishop of Sydney, Australia Francis became Bishop of Menevia, Wales John became titular bishop of Sebastopolis and auxiliary bishop in Salford, England.

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