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Mathew, Theobald
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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postle of temperance, born in Tipperary; studied for the Catholic priesthood, but joined the Capuchin Minorites; was in 1814 ordained a priest, and located in Cork, where at sight of the cruel effects of drunkenness on the mass of the people his heart was moved, and he resolved on a crusade against it to stamp it out; he started on this enterprise in 1827, but it took a year and a half before his mission bore any fruit, and then it was accompanied with marvellous success wherever he went, even as far as the New World itself (1790-1856).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Mathew, Theobald'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/mathew-theobald.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Mathew, Theobald'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/mathew-theobald.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
