File 2025-06-20/2199 - Documents

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FILING CABINET 010: BARBERI PAPERS:

DRAWER TWO:

FILE SEVENTEEN: BLESSED DOMINIC: RELICS

FOLDER ONE:

A long, brown envelope containing authentic information about a finger or toe bone taken from Father Dominic’s corpse by Father Bernard O’Loughlin CP at Bishop Reilly’s inspection, 19 July 1886

A small white envelope containing two pictures of Ven Fr Dominic with relics (wood from the coffin), by permission of Richard, Archbishop of Liverpool. The picture is Doyle’s sketch.

A drawing on tissue paper, in a small folder, of Ven. Fr Dominic, done in Rome

Two typed accounts of why there was no Crucifix in Fr Dominic’s coffin after it was opened at some time after 1862-4 [Miss Wood’s Crucifix, given her by Fr Ignatius Spencer CP]

A small, white envelope containing a fragment of Blessed Dominic’s habit, tested for a blood stain, 28 June 1979