James Ambrose Dominic Aylward
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James Ambrose Dominic Aylward OP (4 April 18135 October 1872) was an English
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theologian and poet.


Biography

Born at
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,
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, on 4 April 1813, Aylward was educated at the Dominican
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of
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, entered the
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, was ordained priest in 1836, became
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in 1850, first
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of
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in 1854, and provincial a second time in 1866. He died, aged 59, at
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, Leicestershire, on 5 October 1872.


Works

Aylward composed several pious manuals for the use of his community and ''A Novena for the Holy Season of Advent'' gathered from the prophecies,
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s, etc., of the Roman Missal and Breviary (
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, 1849). He re-edited a ''Life of Blessed Virgin St Catherine of Sienna'' (London, 1867), translated from the Italian by the Dominican John Fenn (
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, 1609), and an English translation of 's ''Inner Life of Lacordaire'' (
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, 1867). He died at Hinckley, on 5 October 1872. His essays ''On the Mystical Elements in Religion, and on Old and Modern Spiritism'' were edited posthumously by
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(London, 1874). Aylward's principal monument is his translation of
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hymns, most of which he contributed to ''The Catholic Weekly Instructor''. In his ''Annus Sanctus'' (London, 1884), Orbey Shipley has reprinted many of them. He says of Aylward that he was "a cultivated and talented priest of varied powers and gifts." His English translation of the Corpus Christi sequence (beginning "Sing forth") was published in Annus Sanctus, pages 194–196. The end of it appears in the English translation of the 2003 Encyclical by Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia De Eucharistia, n. 62. It is also used in the Lectionary in Australia.Lectionary, Revised Edition approved for the use in the dioceses of Australia and New Zealand, Volume 1, published 1981, by Collins, , pages 601-603.


References

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