Quaestio III: Whhhat is the name of our Patron and Anglican Catholic Confessor?

James A. Kiefer of the St Albans-based Society of Archbishop Justus writes:

John Mason Neale, Priest, Scholar, Translator [and Confessor]

In 1854 Neale co-founded the Sisterhood of St. Margaret, an order of women in the Anglican Church dedicated to nursing the sick. Many Anglicans in his day, however, were very suspicious of anything suggestive of Roman Catholicism. [Good job those days are gone!] Only nine years earlier, John H. Newman had encouraged 'Romish' practices in the Anglican Church, and had ended up joining the 'Romanists' himself. This encouraged the suspicion that anyone like Neale was an agent of the Vatican, assigned to destroy the Anglican Church by subverting it from within [Oh! So that's what's happening to the 'British Church'. But this time it isn't 'barbarian' tribes; it's self-destruction! Seems we're doing just fine without any putative 'Romanist' agents provocateurs.]. Once Neale was attacked and mauled at a funeral of one of the Sisters. From time to time unruly crowds threatened to stone him or to burn his house. [Hence my claim that he truly is a Confessor. Sounds like the yobs screaming obscenities at each other right now outside my study window in the public carpark - erm - my front garden. Good job my daugher is asleep! At least Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues understood: don't mess with nuns! Henry VIII learnt that lesson the hard way!] He received no honor or preferment in England, and his doctorate was bestowed by an American college (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut). [Cheeky yanks. Must be their libertine, multicultural mentality: 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free'.] However, his basic goodness eventually won the confidence of many who had fiercely opposed him, and the Sisterhood of St. Margaret survived and prospered. [Indeed they did. Here's the blessed evidence:]

From Anglican Communion Religious Communities:

Society of St Margaret (Boston) (SSM)
Society of St Margaret (East Grinstead) (SSM)
Society of St Margaret (Hackney) (SSM)
Society of St Margaret (Walsingham) (SSM)

Project Canterbury also have a shrine to our beloved Patron and Confessor.

Patron John Mason Neale, Confessor to the Anglican Catholic Faith, ora pro nobis!