Background
He, his mother and siblings were converted to Roman Catholicism after his father"s death.
He, his mother and siblings were converted to Roman Catholicism after his father"s death.
He was educated at the Franciscan school at Baddesley (1823-1828), and at Old Hall, where he remained for forty years, and held in turn every office.
Before his ordination (1838) he was already a master (1835). He was prefect of discipline 1840-1843, vice-president and procurator 1843-1851, prefect of studies for some years, and president 1851-1868. The years succeeding the restoration of the Hierarchy saw a readjustment of standards.
Under Manning"s influence, Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman appointed a staff at Street Edmund"s College, Ware, who were neither desired nor welcomed by the president (1855-1856).
The result was an attempt to manage the college without the president"s co-operation. The Westminster Chapter took up the matter, and, after an appeal to Rome, the Oblates were withdrawn in 1861.
Doctor Weathers" own appreciation of higher ideals is indicated by the remodelling of the college rules during his presidency, and by the invitation and firm support given to Doctor Ward, a convert and a layman, as lecturer in theology (1852-1858). When Archbishop Manning removed the divines to Hammersmith in 1869, he appointed Weathers rector of that seminary, which position Weathers held until the seminary was closed by Cardinal Herbert Vaughan in 1892.
At his own choice, he then became chaplain to the Sisters of Nazareth at Isleworth.
He had been created Doctor of Divinity in 1845, became a canon of Westminster in 1851, was named a domestic prelate to Pope Pius IX in 1869, and was consecrated bishop, as auxiliary to Archbishop Manning, in 1872. In 1868 he went to Rome as representative theologian of the English bishops in the deliberations preparatory to the First Vatican Council. He published (under the name Amyclanus) An Enquiry into the Nature and Results of Electricity and Magnetism (1876).
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