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<p> an English clergyman and hymn-writer, was born at Calverley, Yorkshire, June 28, 1814. He was educated at [[Harrow]] and the University of Oxford, where he became a fellow of University [[College]] in 1837. About this time he gave up his Calvinistic views and became an enthusiastic admirer and follower of John H. Newman. In 1841 he travelled on the Continent, and on his return published Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and among Foreign Peoples, a work of great merit. He now became rector of Elton, in Huntingdonshire, but soon proceeded again to the Continent to study the methods followed by the [[Roman]] [[Catholic]] Church. Returning to [[Elton]] he devoted himself earnestly to his parish, but was constrained to adopt the Romish faith in 1845. On leaving Elton his parishioners sobbed out, "God bless you, Mr. Faber, wherever you go." He founded a religious community at Birmingham, called Wilfridians, after the name Wilfrid, which [[Faber]] assumed. The community was ultimately merged in the oratory of St. [[Philip]] Neri, of which father Newman was the head; and in 1849 a branch of the oratory was established in London, over which Faber presided until his death, September 26, 1863. He was a voluminous writer, although it is mainly as a hymn-writer that he will be known in the future. </p> <p> Among his finest compositions of this class are, The Greatness of God; The Will of God; The [[Eternal]] Father; The God of my Childhood; The Pilgrims of the Night; The [[Shadow]] of the Rock. Besides the work above mentioned, he published, previous to his conversion to Romanism, Tracts on the [[Church]] and the [[Prayer-Book]] (1839): — A [[Sermon]] on [[Education]] (1840): — The Cherwell Water-Lily and other Poems (1840): — The Styrian Lake, etc. (1842): Sir Lancelot, a poem (1844): — The Rosary, etc. (1845), and several other papers. After his conversion he published, Catholic Hynns: — Essay on [[Beatification]] and [[Canonization]] (1848): — The [[Spirit]] and [[Genius]] of St. Philip Neri (1850): — Catholic Home [[Missions]] (1851): — All for [[Jesus]] (1854): — Groth in [[Holiness]] (1855): — The Blessed [[Sacrament]] (1856): — The [[Creator]] and the [[Creature]] (1857): — The Foot of the Cross, or Sorrows of Mary (1858): — [[Spiritual]] Conferences (1859), and other works. The only complete edition of his Hymns is the one published by Richardson & Son in 1861 (2d ed. 1871). His Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects were edited by father Bowden, and issued after Faber's death. See his Life and Letters, by father Bowden; [[Early]] Life, by his brother; Encyclop. Brit. 9th ed. s.v. </p>
<p> A [[Catholic]] divine and hymn-writer, born at Calverley, Yorkshire; at [[Oxford]] he won the Newdigate [[Prize]] in 1836; for three years was rector of Elton, but under the influence of Newman joined the [[Church]] of Rome, and after founding a brotherhood of converts at [[Birmingham]] in 1849, took under his charge a [[London]] branch of the [[Oratory]] of St. [[Philip]] Neri; wrote several meritorious theological works, but his fame chiefly rests on his fine hymns, the "Pilgrims of the Night" one of the most famous (1814-1863). </p>
       
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<ref name="term_39715"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/faber,+frederick+william,+d.d. Frederick William Faber from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
 
<ref name="term_73061"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/faber,+frederick+william Frederick William Faber from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]

A Catholic divine and hymn-writer, born at Calverley, Yorkshire; at Oxford he won the Newdigate Prize in 1836; for three years was rector of Elton, but under the influence of Newman joined the Church of Rome, and after founding a brotherhood of converts at Birmingham in 1849, took under his charge a London branch of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri; wrote several meritorious theological works, but his fame chiefly rests on his fine hymns, the "Pilgrims of the Night" one of the most famous (1814-1863).

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