Nicholas Patrick Wiseman

Wiseman, Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen, son of James Wiseman, merchant at "Waterford and Seville, was born at Seville, Spain, Aug. 2, 1802, educated at Ushaw College, Durham, and at the English College in Rome; ordained priest at Rome in 1825, and became in 1827 Rector of the English College. In 1840 he was consecrated at Rome as Bp. of Melipotamus in partibus, and returned to England as Vicar-Apostolic of the Midlands, being summoned in 1850 by Pope Pius IX. to Rome, made a Cardinal and created Archbishop of Westminster. He died in London, Feb. 15, 1865. His hymns include:—
1. England! Oh, what means this sighing? [For the Conversion of England.] Contributed to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, No. 77, repeated in the St. Patrick's Hymn Book, 1862, Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, 1862, and others.
2. Full in the panting heart of Borne. [The Pope.] In the Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, 1862, No. 257, Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898, and many others.
3. 0 beate mi Edmunde. [St. Edmund of Canter¬bury.] Written as a solace during an illness at Rome in 1860, printed as Hymnus in honor em S. Edmundi (London, n.d., but before Oct. 5,1860, and first used on St. Edmund's day, Nov. 16, 1861, at the solemn enshrinement of a relic of St. Edmund (brought from Pontigny in 1853, by Card. Wiseman), in the Lady Chapel of St. Edmund's College, near Ware. It is in three decades, telling of his youth, manhood, and episcopate. It was sung by the English pilgrims at Pontigny in 1874, and is still used at St. Edmund's College on the nine days before Nov. 16 (see Mgr. Bernard Ward's History of St. Edmund's College, 1893, p. 277, &c). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)