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From
a British Archive:
Noted convert, author and lecturer dies
MGR. EDWARD HAWKS, who was born in Wales,
became an Anglican minister and then a Catholic priest, and for the past 35
years was Rector of St. Joan of Arc's Church in Philadelphia, has died at the
age of 76.
Mgr. Hawks an internationally known writer
and lecturer, was born in Crickhowell, Brecknockshire. He studied at London
University, Lennoxville University, Canada, and the Nashotah House Anglican
Seminary in Wisconsin.
One of twenty
He was ordained as an Anglican minister but
was received into the Church in 1908, being one of 20 clerical converts associated
with the late Mgr. McGarvey, and was ordained by Archbishop Prendergast in
1911.
He was an outstanding authority on
non-Catholic efforts towards unity, both among themselves and in relation to
the Church.
During the first World War he was a chaplain
to the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
He was a regular contributor to the Catholic
Standard and Times and contributed many articles and short stories to America, The Commonwealth, the Catholic World, the Ecclesiastical Review and other
magazines.
In 1936 he became a Domestic Prelate to the
Pope, and was later appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Isabelle the
Catholic.
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