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Joseph Rathborne

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Joseph Rathborne


Joseph Rathborne (11 May 1807, Lincoln, England – 12 August 1842, Cowes) was an English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist.

Works

As "Alethphilos" Rathborne published:

  • Letters of Alethphilos (1839), on a controversy about prayers for the dead
  • Good Friday and Easter Sunday (1839)
  • Letters to the Protestants of the Isle of Wight on the Catholic Religion (1839)
  • A Reply to the Reverend Barnabas Rodriguez Almeda (1840)
  • A Letter to Dr. Adams, shewing Purgatory inseparably connected with Prayers for the Dead (1840)
  • Are the Puseyites sincere? (1841); and
  • The Church in its Relations with Truth and the State (1841), reply to William Ewart Gladstone.

    • Under his own name Rathborne published The Clergy of the French Revolution, an obituary sermon on the Rev. Dr. de Grenthe.

    Attribution

     This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1911). "Joseph Rathborne". Catholic Encyclopedia. 12. New York: Robert Appleton. 

    References

    Joseph Rathborne Wikipedia
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