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Author "Good Christian Men, Rejoice' and 'Good King Wenceslas

"JM Neale – whose credits include 'Good Christian Men, Rejoice' and 'Good King Wenceslas' – also made headlines, though not the sort you'd crave. An English vicar and leading light of the Oxford Movement, which sought to bring Catholic practices into Anglicanism, he so displeased his congregations that, on various occasions, they accused him of being a Vatican 'secret agent', physically attacked him at a nun's funeral, stoned him, and threatened to burn him out of house and home."


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