The Elusive Father Brown Julia Smith 9780852446980 Books
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Born in a small Irish town straddling the border of Tipperary and Waterford, the young John Joseph O'Connor was educated on the Continent by the Benedictines at Douai before being ordained a Catholic priest in March 1895. While his whole life was to be spent as a parish priest, he became known for possessing one of the finest intellects in early-twentieth-century Europe. Friend and confidant of statesmen, writers, and artists, his own literary output was prolific. His ability to distinguish between the genuine and false, in people as well as works of art, led to him assembling an art collection whose sale funded almost half the cost of building his first church. He built up a further valuable collection of art and antiques, but did not have to resort to its sale to build his second, and quite controversial, church. Controversy was something Mgr O'Connor never shied away from. He was loved and revered by his parishioners, most of whom were totally unaware of his close friendship with so many eminent figures beyond the confines of his parish. One of these, G. K. Chesterton, is now being proposed for beatification, and it was he who turned his friend into his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown, who knew more about the underworld than the criminals themselves. And it was Mgr O'Connor who was to guide Chesterton along the path to Catholicism and receive him into the Church. Mgr O'Connor commissioned the Stations of the Cross and other sculptures for his Bradford parish from Eric Gill, but he had a much deeper involvement with the Ditchling group of Arts and Crafts workshops. He not only translated the French philosophy of Jacques Maritain for them but also collaborated with Gill on the publication of Song of Songs and Song of the Soul with their highly controversial and sexually explicit engravings. This, his only, biography aims to introduce the shadowy figure who slipped in and out of so many different worlds to a larger public who never suspected he had so many fingers in so many pies.
The Elusive Father Brown Julia Smith 9780852446980 Books
One day, shortly after G.K. Chesterton met Father John O'Connor for the first time, the two men took a long walk together. Many subjects came up in conversation, and Fr. O'Connor shocked Chesterton with his knowledge of crimes and the criminal mind. And thus, in the imagination of the great author, a priest-detective began to form. A few years later, the Father Brown mysteries started appearing in print.But who was this priest? Father O'Connor went on to become a close friend of the Chesterton family, but he also played an important role in the literary and arts revival in England in the early part of the 20th century.
A collector of art, Father O'Connor rummaged through estate sales, picking up items he seemed to sense were valuable. But his art collection wasn't merely for personal enjoyment. When it came time to build a new Catholic Church, Father O'Connor sold his works, converting them into brick and mortar. The churches he built were perhaps his most lasting memory, up til now. Author/librarian Julia Smith has done the world a huge favor by writing the first comprehensive well-researched biography of this tender-hearted priest.
Father O'Connor is "elusive" as author Julia Smith titles this work, because beyond friendships with every sort of well-known author and artist of his time, he built churches, heard confessions, said Mass, and quietly but surely led his little flock. Most of his congregation had no idea he was friends with such big names as G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Eric Gill, G.B. Shaw, Max Beerbohm or Compton Mackenzie. Few knew he was involved in a distributist community. He had ties as well to poets, the opera house and more. O'Connor truly was a renaissance man, quietly influencing society from the back seat of a Catholic rectory.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in distributism, the arts, literature, education, architecture, sculpture; if you are interested in British History of the early 20th century, you will certainly enjoy this thoughtful biography of Father John O'Connor.
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The Elusive Father Brown Julia Smith 9780852446980 Books Reviews
One day, shortly after G.K. Chesterton met Father John O'Connor for the first time, the two men took a long walk together. Many subjects came up in conversation, and Fr. O'Connor shocked Chesterton with his knowledge of crimes and the criminal mind. And thus, in the imagination of the great author, a priest-detective began to form. A few years later, the Father Brown mysteries started appearing in print.
But who was this priest? Father O'Connor went on to become a close friend of the Chesterton family, but he also played an important role in the literary and arts revival in England in the early part of the 20th century.
A collector of art, Father O'Connor rummaged through estate sales, picking up items he seemed to sense were valuable. But his art collection wasn't merely for personal enjoyment. When it came time to build a new Catholic Church, Father O'Connor sold his works, converting them into brick and mortar. The churches he built were perhaps his most lasting memory, up til now. Author/librarian Julia Smith has done the world a huge favor by writing the first comprehensive well-researched biography of this tender-hearted priest.
Father O'Connor is "elusive" as author Julia Smith titles this work, because beyond friendships with every sort of well-known author and artist of his time, he built churches, heard confessions, said Mass, and quietly but surely led his little flock. Most of his congregation had no idea he was friends with such big names as G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Eric Gill, G.B. Shaw, Max Beerbohm or Compton Mackenzie. Few knew he was involved in a distributist community. He had ties as well to poets, the opera house and more. O'Connor truly was a renaissance man, quietly influencing society from the back seat of a Catholic rectory.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in distributism, the arts, literature, education, architecture, sculpture; if you are interested in British History of the early 20th century, you will certainly enjoy this thoughtful biography of Father John O'Connor.
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