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Gerardo C. C. Oberman

b. 1965 Person Name: Gerardo Oberman, b. 1965 Topics: Cielo Nuevo y Tierra Nueva Translator of "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand (En las orillas del Jordán)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Lefferd M. A. Haughwout

1873 - 1952 Person Name: Lefferd M. A. Haughwout, 1873-1952 Topics: Cielo Translator of "The Church's One Foundation (Un Solo Fundamento)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

b. 1942 Person Name: Robert J. Batastini, b. 1942 Topics: Cielo Arranger of "HOUSTON" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Robert J. Batastini is the retired vice president and senior editor of GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago. Bob has over fifty-five years of service in pastoral music ministry, having served several parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago and one in the Diocese of Joliet. He served as executive editor and project director for the Worship hymnals (three editions), Gather hymnals (three editions), Catholic Community Hymnal, and as executive editor of RitualSong. In 1993 he became the first recipient of the Father Lawrence Heimann Citation for lifetime contribution to church music and liturgy in the U.S., awarded by St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana, and was named "Pastoral Musician of the Year-2000" by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). At its 2006 conference, he was named a Fellow of the Hymn society in the United States and Canada. In his retirement he is active in the music ministry of St. Francis de Sales Parish, Holland, MI. Nancy Naber, from www.giamusic.com/bios/

Leopoldo Gros

b. 1925 Person Name: Leopoldo Gros, b. 1925 Topics: Cielo Translator of "I Know That My Redeemer Lives! (Yo Sé Vive el Salvador)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

James Pascoe

1841 - 1888 Topics: Cielo Translator of "Jerusalem, My Happy Home (Jerusalén, Hodar Feliz)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Federico Fliedner

1845 - 1901 Person Name: Federico Fliedner, 1845-1901 Topics: Cielo Translator (Spanish) of "Now Thank We All Our God (De Boca y Corazón)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song [Friedrich Ludwig Fliedner, Fritz Fliedner] Born: June 10, 1845, Kaiserswerth, Düsseldorf, Germany. Died: April 25, 1901, Madrid, Spain, of typhus. Buried: Civil cemetery, Madrid, Spain. Son of Theodor Fliedner, founder of the Kaiserswerth Deaconess Institute, Federico was educated at the Gymnasium in Gütersloh, studied theology at Halle (1864-46) and earned his PhD at Tübingen (1867). He served as a nurse in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, and taught school for a year in rural Hilden. After ordination in 1870, he left Germany to be a missionary to Spain, settling in Madrid and becoming a chaplain at the German embassy. He learned Spanish, attended a Spanish high school, and studied medicine at the Universidad Central. Fliedner was instrumental in creating what is now known as the Iglesia Evangélica Española. In 1873, Fliedner founded the Librería Nacional y Extranjera, an extensive collection of text books and periodicals. Among these was The Children’s Friend, published from 1874 to 1939. Fliedner wrote biographies of John Howard, Elizabeth Fry, missionary-explorer David Livingstone, Martin Luther (1878), and his own parents, Theodore Fliedner of Kaiserswerth (1883) and Caroline Fliedner of Kaiserswerth (1883). He also wrote an autobiography, published first in German in two volumes (Aus meinem Leben, 1901-03), then translated into Spanish and published posthumously in the Christian Magazine (Nos. 513 to 553). He started a Spanish translation of the New Testament with notes from Frenchman Edouard Faivre. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Adam M. L. Tice

b. 1979 Person Name: Adam M. L. Tice, b. 1979 Topics: Cielo Nuevo y Tierra Nueva Author of "A River Flows through Babylon (En Babilonia hay ríos)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Samuel A. Ward

1848 - 1903 Person Name: Samuel A. Ward, 1847-1903 Topics: Ocasiones Especiales Cielo Composer of "MATERNA" in Culto Cristiano

A. Ewing

1830 - 1895 Person Name: Alexander Ewing, 1830-1895 Topics: Ocasiones Especiales Cielo Composer of "EWING" in Culto Cristiano Alexander C (Rex) Ewing United Kingdom 1830-1895. Born at Aberdeen,Scotland, he studied music and German at Heidelberg University and law in Aberdeen. However, he did not qualify as a lawyer. A member of the Aberdeen Harmonic Choir and the Hadyn Society of Aberdeen, he was regarded as the most talented young musician in the city. He became an author, musician, editor, composer, and translator. He married Juliana Horatia Gatty in 1867. She died in 1885, and he remarried Elizabeth Margaret Cumby in 1886. He was a career officer in the British Army's Commissariat Department and subsequently the Army Pay Corps. He served at Constantinople during the Crimean War, thereafter in China for six years, then in Ireland during the Fenian Uprising. He was then in New Brunswick just after England created the British North American Act, creating the Dominion of Canada. He then went to Fredericton, where he played the organ and sang at Christ Church Cathedral. He was transferred to Aldershot. In 1879 he went to Malta, then served in Ceylon before returning to England. He reached the rank of Lt. Col. He translated several works by other authors. He retired and spent the last six years of his life in Taunton, England, where he died. John Perry

Dennis Chester Smolarski

b. 1947 Person Name: Dennis C. Smolarski, SJ Topics: Cielo Translator (English) of "Song of Farewell (Cántico de Despedida)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song