Rock, Daniel
Rock, Daniel
Priest and ecclesiologist. Born on 31 August 1799 in Liverpool, England; died on 28 November 1871 in London, England. Author of Hierurgia, or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and The Church of Our Fathers; the latter, treating of the Sarum Rite and medieval observances, in profoundly influenced liturgical study in England.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Rock, Daniel
Antiquarian and ecclesiologist, b. at Liverpool, 31 August, 1799; d. at Kensington, London, 28 November, 1871. He was educated at St. Edmund’s College, Old Hall, where he studied from April, 1813, to Dec., 1818. There he came under the influence of the Rev. Louis Havard from whom he acquired his first interest in liturgy, and was the intimate companion of the future historian, Mark A. Tierney. He was then chosen as one of the first students sent to reopen the English College at Rome, where he remained till he took the degree of D.D. in 1825. He had been ordained priest, 13 March, 1824. On his return to London he becomes assistant priest at St. Mary’s, Moorfields, till 1827, when he was appointed domestic chaplain to John, Earl of Shrewsbury, with whom he had contracted a friendship based on similarity of tastes while at Rome. He accordingly resided at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, till 1840, with the exception of two years during which Lord Shrewsbury’s generosity enabled him to stay at Rome collecting materials for his great work, “Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass”, which was published in 1833. He had previously published two short works: “Transubstantiation vindicated from the strictures of the Rev. Maurice Jones” (1830), and “The Liturgy of the Mass and Common Vespers for Sundays” (1832).
In 1840 he became chaplain to Sir Robert Throckmorton of Buckland in Berkshire, and while there wrote his greatest book, “The Church of Our Fathers”, in which he studies the Sarum Rite and other medieval liturgical observances. This work, which has profoundly influenced liturgical study in England and which caused his recognition as the leading authority on the subject, was published in 1849 (vols. I and II) and 1853-4 (vol. III). After 1840 Dr. Rock was a prominent member of the “Adelphi”, an association of London priests who were working together for the restoration of the hierarchy. When this object was achieved, he was elected one of the first canons of Southwark (1852). Shortly after, he ceased parochial work, and having resided successfully at Newick, Surrey (1854-64), he went to live near the South Kensington Museum in which he took the keenest interest and to which he proved of much service. His “Introduction to the Catalogue of Textile Fabrics” in that Museum has been separately reprinted (1876) and is of great authority. He also contributed frequent articles to the Archæological Journal, the Dublin Review, and other periodicals. For many years before his death he held the honourable position of President of the Old Brotherhood of the English Secular Clergy. There is an oil painting of him at St. Edmund’s College, Old Hall.
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GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., s. v.; SUTTON in Dict. Nat. Biog., s. v. incorrectly dating his departure for Rome 1813 instead of 1818; KELLY, Life of Daniel Rock, D.D., prefixed to the modern Anglican ed. The Church of Our Fathers, ed. HART AND FRERE (London, 1903), with portrait. The Edmundian, II (1895), no. 8.
EDWIN BURTON Transcribed by St. Mary’s Catechetical Ministries Dedicated to Mariedel Cawile for the reception of the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Eucharist.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIIICopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Rock, Daniel
a learned Roman Catholic, was born at Liverpool, England, in 1799, and educated at Old Hall, Herts, and in the English College, Rome. After serving the mission in London for two years, he became domestic chaplain to the earl of Shrewsbury, and in 1840 took charge of the Church at Buckland, Berks, which he resigned in 1854. On the reintroduction into England of the Roman hierarchy (1852), he was one among those first made canons of Southwark. He died Nov. 28, 1871. Rock published, Hierurgia, or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (Lond. 1833, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed. 1850, 8vo): The Church of our Fathers, etc. (vol. 1, 2, ibid. 1849, 8vo; vol 3, 1853-54): Transubstantiation Vindicated: The Mystic Crown of Mary; also minor publications, See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. s.v.