Donald Attwater (1892–1977)
Author of The Penguin Dictionary of Saints
About the Author
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Works by Donald Attwater
Saints Westward: Some Colorful and Heroic Men and Women Who Planted and Watered the Seed of the Faith in the Western Hemisphere (2012) 11 copies
Names and Name-Days 3 copies
Jesus: what he did, what he said : the New Testament records put into modern English (1969) 2 copies
Catholic Eastern Churches 1 copy
Vite dei santi: martiri, predicatori, mistici, guerrieri, eremiti venerati e invocati nel culto tradizionale (2002) 1 copy
The Year Of The Flood 1 copy
The Following of the Saints 1 copy
Dicionário de Santos Livro 1 1 copy
Body and spirit 1 copy
The Eastern churches 1 copy
Associated Works
Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. 4: October, November, December (1956) — Editor — 113 copies, 2 reviews
Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. 1: January, February, March (1980) — Editor — 99 copies, 2 reviews
Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. 3: July, August, September (1981) — Editor — 90 copies, 3 reviews
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- Canonical name
- Attwater, Donald
- Birthdate
- 1892-12-24
- Date of death
- 1977-01-30
- Gender
- male
- Short biography
- Attwater was born in Essex, England, on 24 December 1892. His parents were Methodists who became Anglicans while Attwater was a child. He himself became a Catholic at the age of 18. He studied Law but did not earn a degree.
He served in the Sinai and Palestine campaign during the First World War, developing an interest in Eastern Christianity while in the Middle East. After the war he lived for a time on Caldey Island, undergoing the influence of the monks of Caldey Abbey. He also became a friend and admirer of Eric Gill. Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s he was a frequent contributor to the Catholic press in both Britain and America, and a prolific author of books on Christian themes.
In 1936 he was one of the founders of the Catholic peace movement Pax, which opposed the invasion of Abyssinia by Fascist Italy.
Attwater was married to Rachel Attwater of South Wales, a fellow historian and published author on Catholic saints in the Orient. He died in Storrington, Sussex, in February 1977. - Nationality
- England
- Birthplace
- Essex, England, UK
- Place of death
- Storrington, Sussex, England, UK
- Map Location
- UK
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Reviews
Genial, witty, and informative. It should be noted that the author writes from a Roman Catholic perspective, so that, among others, the considerable Anglican calendar of saints goes unmentioned.
St. John Chrysostom. Pastor and preacher. [With an endpaper map and a bibliography.] by Donald Attwater
Good reference to the basic facts and his sermons, but a very dated historical analysis.
Read in Mexico 2009 San Miguel, Guanguato heavily biased in favor of English saints at the expense of Mexican as even Our Lay of Guadalupe
Just from dipping into it, I found it accurate and even-handed.
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