Thomas Vincent Faustus Sadler was a Roman Catholic missionary in England and spiritual author.

Biography

Thomas Sadler was born in 1604, and received into the Catholic Church at the age of seventeen by his uncle, Dom Walter Sadler, and joined the Benedictines at Dieulward, being professed in 1622.

Little is known of his missionary work, but he was probably chaplain

Chaplain

Traditionally, a chaplain is a minister in a specialized setting such as a priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam or lay representative of a religion attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, police department, university, or private chapel...

 to the Sheldons of Weston

Weston

There are many places called Weston:-Australia:* Weston, Australian Capital Territory* Weston Creek, Canberra* Weston Park, Canberra* Weston, New South Wales, a suburb of the City of Cessnock-Canada:* Weston, Nova Scotia* Weston, Ontario...

 and the Tichbornes in Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

 before moving to London, where he worked for many years. He died at Dieulward, Flanders on 19 January 1680-1.

Works

He edited several spiritual books, often collaborating with Dom Anselm Crowther, and signed with the initials T.V.

His chief publications are

• The Christian Pilgrim in his Spiritual Conflict and Conquest (1652)
• Jesus, Maria, Joseph (1657)
• The Daily Exercise of the Devout Rosarists (1657), which was afterwards developed into a well-known prayer book
  Prayer book
  A 'prayer book' is a book outlining the 'liturgy' of religious services.In this sense, it may carry the following specific names in various religions:*Breviary or Missal, in Roman Catholicism*Agenda , in Lutheranism...
  
  , The Daily Exercise of the Devout Christian.
• A Guide to Heaven, translated from Giovanni Bona
  Giovanni Bona
  Giovanni Bona was an Italian Cistercian, cardinal, liturgist and devotional author.-Biography:He was born of an old French family at Mondovì, in Piedmont, northern Italy, on 19 October, according to some 10 October, 1609...
  
  's Manuductio (1672)
• The Holy Desires of Death, translated from ?Louis Lallemant
  Louis Lallemant
  Louis Lallemant was a French Jesuit.After making his studies under the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, Lallemant entered that order in 1605, having completed the usual course of study and teaching for new members...
  
   (1678).
• Wood attributes to him The Childe's Catechism
  Catechism
  A catechism , i.e. to indoctrinate) is a summary or exposition of doctrine, traditionally used in Christian religious teaching from New Testament times to the present...
  
  (1678).