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R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
« on: August 16, 2025, 08:30:42 PM »
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    • Thomas A. Nelson passed away around 11 AM today.

    Please keep his soul in your prayers.

    He was a lifelong bachelor, his apostolate being the reprinting and wide distribution of pre-Vatican II Catholic literature, including books that weren't commercially viable (but were necessary for seminarians, for example).

    He ran this apostolate from 1967 until he lost control of his business (to bankruptcy) in 2009.

    May God reward him.
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #1 on: August 16, 2025, 08:41:20 PM »
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #2 on: August 16, 2025, 08:41:31 PM »
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    • So sad to hear this.  May God grant him eternal rest.   :pray:

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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #3 on: August 16, 2025, 09:06:24 PM »
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    • Deepest sympathy, Matthew, on losing your Uncle, I believe?
    May God rest his soul. He was almost our only source of good Catholic books for so many years in those early days of Tradition.
    May God grant him a rich reward.
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #4 on: August 16, 2025, 09:19:46 PM »
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    • May he rest in peace.  He certainly leaves behind a wonderful legacy of great work for the Faith.
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #5 on: August 16, 2025, 09:30:40 PM »
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #6 on: August 16, 2025, 10:23:16 PM »
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    • I will certainly pray for him. I am sorry for your loss, Matthew. 
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #7 on: August 16, 2025, 10:26:02 PM »
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    « Reply #8 on: August 16, 2025, 10:32:21 PM »
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    Very many Traditional Catholics (and even non-Traditional ones) were nourished spiritually by the books that he made available but would otherwise have been lost to the Conciliar Revolution.
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #9 on: August 16, 2025, 11:09:26 PM »
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    • :pray::pray::pray:=three Masses for his soul.
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    « Reply #10 on: August 16, 2025, 11:41:46 PM »
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    • Thanks for this.  I met Thomas Nelson in 1995 at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary.  He was standing in the kitchen talking to Brother "Deo Gratias" Gerard, wearing blue jeans and boots and had a fist full of holy cards.  I introduced myself, and he said, "Nice to me you Mr. Shepherd, I am Tom Nelson."  I seriously thought he might have been a local farmer from around the area.  God bless Tom Nelson. 
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #11 on: August 17, 2025, 12:02:36 AM »
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    • I spoke with Miss Mary Frances Lester, Tom's very long-time editor and most dear friend today.  Tom had spent the last several years in a nursing home in Rockford where he had laid bed-stricken to a great degree.  No doubt, a real purgatory of sorts.

    He had been having a bad bout of pneumonia at the time of his death which apparently was the immediate cause of his passing.  Mary Frances (who I have known personally since 1997) had been able to speak to him just the day before and had been with him on the day of his death but had just stepped out of the room momentarily when Tom appeared to pass away.

    She said the funeral was being held at St. Mary Oratory (https://institute-christ-king.org/rockford-home } in Rockford, Illinois.  The funeral home is Fitzgerald.

    He will be buried at Calvary Cemetery in Winnebago, IL next to his parents.

    Tom was in the objective order of things a true Catholic giant of the late 20th and early 21st Century, albeit one seemingly almost forgotten in his later years as he quietly lay on his "bed of thorns."  He also led a perhaps not surprisingly modest, pious, and ascetical life.  Let us pray that he makes it into heaven without much delay, if any.  God only knows how many countless souls his work helped so magnificently in arriving at their heavenly destination and still helps to this day.  For my part, I can hardly begin to say how much I have really benefited from TAN books, the 4 volume Mystical City of God to name just one.



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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #12 on: August 17, 2025, 05:23:13 AM »
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #13 on: August 17, 2025, 05:38:18 AM »
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    Re: R.I.P. Thomas A. Nelson - founder of TAN Books
    « Reply #14 on: August 17, 2025, 09:37:57 AM »
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    • It's impossible to overstate the good that Mr Nelson did with TAN Books.  Just speaking from my own experience, TAN provided a way to get books that weren't available at the parish level, and those magnificent green catalogs were virtually a catechism in themselves, of what the Faith was like before the Vatican II era, something that the change agents at the parish level were hoping everyone would just forget (or if you were young enough, never be exposed to in the first place).  As I understand it, TAN also did secular publishing to subsidize the books that would otherwise not have been commercially viable, and use of a nondescript corporate name (Mr Nelson's initials) made this easier, not to mention that there was already a Thomas Nelson Publishers, a Protestant entity in Nashville.

    Requiescat in pace.
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