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FOLDER ONE:

1. A letter from Fr Federico to Fr Provincial, 27 February 1962 about meetings of the Medical Commission

2. A letter, 5 March 1962, from Fr Provincial to Fr Federico regarding the restriction that the news of the acceptance of miracles in Father Dominic’s Cause must still not be publicised in England, even amongst the Passionists.

3. A letter, Rome, 15 March 1962, from Fr Federico to Fr Provincial regarding the preparations for the Beatification of the Ven. Father Dominic. Italian.

4. A copy of a letter, 21 March 1862, from Fr Provincial to Cardinal Godfrey, giving him the news that on 27 February the Medical Commission of the Sacred Congregation had approved the two miracles for Ven. Dominic’s Cause. Fr Provincial notes that it was the centenary of the death of St Gabriel; and encloses a Memorandum, asking the Cardinal to distribute it to the Bishops of England and Wales at their Low Week Meeting.

5. An official document, 24 March 1962, regarding the Cause of Ven. Dominic

6. Documentation, 10 April 1962: A typed carbon copy of the Memorandum with a history of the Cause [Latin] dated Rome, 7 July 1936 and carried on to 20 November 1940; a summary of the first miracle [English], Confrater Damasus, 8 March 1891; a history of the Cause to 1962; a summary of the second miracle, of Eltare Chianura, December 1954; all issued by Fr Federico CP on 10 April 1962.

7. Another copy of: Documentation, 10 April 1962: A typed carbon copy of the Memorandum with a history of the Cause [Latin] dated Rome, 7 July 1936 and carried on to 20 November 1940; a summary of the first miracle [English], Confrater Damasus, 8 March 1891; a history of the Cause to 1962; a summary of the second miracle, of Eltare Chianura, December 1954; all issued by Fr Federico CP on 10 April 1962.

8. A Memorandum, 26 April 1962, from Fr Provincial, Philip Hayes CP, and Hubert Condron CP, Vice-Postulator, delineating recent developments in the Cause for the Beatification of Ven. Fr Dominic.

9. A letter, 27 April 1962, from Fr Provincial to Cardinal Godfrey, sending him the Memorandum he had asked for and additional copies for the Bishops of England Wales

10. A letter, 14 May 1962, from Cardinal Godfrey, Archbishop of Westminster, to Fr Provincial, Minsteracres, regarding the Memorandum’s being presented to the Hierarchy of England and Wales

11. A letter, 24 May 1962 from Cardinal Godfrey to Fr Provincial regarding the news that the Medical Commission at the Sacred Congregation had approved the miracles on 27 February 1962.

12. An official document, remarks, 28 July 1962, regarding Ven. Dominic’s Cause

13. A letter, 31 July 1962, from Fr Federico to Fr Provincial regarding remarks on the miracles for Fr Dominic’s Cause.

14. A letter from Fr Federico to Fr Provincial, 11 September 1962, regarding miracles for Fr Dominic’s Cause

15. A letter, 2 October 1962, from Fr Conrad [Charles], Rome to Fr Provincial on how the Cause of Ven. Dominic was progressing in Rome

16. A telegram, 3 November 1962, from Fr Conrad [Charles] CP to Fr Provincial, regarding the Praeparatoria on 18 December 1962

17. A circular letter, 23 November 1962, from Revd Father General, Malcolm of Mary, telling the Passionist Congregation that on 18 December 1962 an important meeting would take place at the Vatican in the final stages for the Beatification of the Ven. Father Dominic and stipulating prayers in preparation.

18. The original letter, 24 November 1962, to Fr Provincial from T. Gornall, Goosnargh, regarding a possible miracle through the intercession of Ven. Fr Dominic.

19. A typed copy of a letter, 24 November 1962, to Fr Provincial from T. Gornall, Goosnargh, regarding a possible miracle through the intercession of Ven. Fr Dominic

20. A letter, 28 November 1962, from Fr Conrad to Fr Provincial about the preparations for the possible Beatification of Ven. Dominic

21. A letter, 30 November 1962, from Fr Conrad to Fr Provincial about a ‘life’ of Dominic Barberi

22. A letter, 3 December 1962, from Fr Provincial to Fr Conrad in Rome regarding the procedures in the likelihood of Dominic’s Beatification

23. A letter, 5 December 1962, from Fr Martin CP, St Anne’s Retreat, Sutton to Fr Provincial regarding the recognition and location of Dominic Barberi’s remains, a new biography etc.

24. A copy of the Statement from the Sacred Congregation of Rites, 19 December 1962, approving of the Beatification of Ven. Father Dominic

25. A telegram from Fr Federico CP to Fr Provincial, 21 December 1962, “Miracles through. Pope gives go ahead.”

26. A typed copy of a letter from Fr Federico CP, 22 December 1962, to Rev. Fr Provincial regarding acceptance of second miracle for Beatification of Ven. Dominic. Italian.

1. A letter, 3 February 1961, Fr Federico CP, Postulator General, to Fr Vincent CP, Rector, Sutton, regarding expenses for the Cause of Ven. Dominic

2. Letter, 14 February 1961, from Father Provincial, Philip of the Mother of Sorrows, to Superiors and Religious, regarding the approval, on 27 January 1961, by the Sacred Congregation of the validity of the Process of Investigation into the second miracle for the Cause of Ven. Dominic

3. A letter, 13 March 1961, Fr Federico CP, Postulator General, to Fr Vincent CP, Rector, Sutton, regarding expenses for the Cause of Ven. Dominic

4. A circular from St Anne’s Retreat, Sutton, undated, acknowledging petitions to be placed on the tomb of Ven. Dominic

5. A typed copy of the approval, 22 December 1961, by the Sacred Congregation of Rites of the Petition of Fr Federico, Postulator General, regarding the second miracle for the Cause of Ven.Dominic. Latin.

6. Letter, 23 December 1961, from Fr Federico CP to Fr Provincial CP, Minsteracres regarding the second miracle for the Cause of Ven. Dominic. Italian.

7. A printed copy of the official Process regarding the second miracle. Italian.

8. A printed copy of the positio on the validity of the Process. Latin.

1. A newspaper cutting reporting that the Medical Commission in Rome had approved two miracles for the Beatification of Ven. Father Dominic CP

2. Judgement of Ven. Dominic’s calligraphy, 1952

3. A copy of the official documents of the Medical Commission, 1951 regarding Joseph Ignatius Allen, born 1876; and of the Medical Commission, 1961 regarding Hector Chianura, born 1916.

1. An envelope containing replies (regarding a petition) from Bishops in Ireland, 1945: Armagh; Apostolic Nuncio, Dublin; Galway; St Mary’s, Haddington Road, Dublin; Archbishop, Dublin; Cork; Mt St Joseph Abbey, Roscrea; Letterkenny; Tuam; Mullingar; Belfast; Carlow; Ennis; and Monaghan

2. An envelope containing the Acta of the Congregation: a) April 1943, about the state of Causes, including that of the Ven. Dominic; and b) February 1946 about the election of a new Postulator, Padre Federico CP

3. A letter, Union City, New Jersey, USA, 25 June 1945 from a Passionist to Father Brendan, Provincial in England, explaining why, according to an American bishop he had consulted, the American bishops could not be asked to petition for the Beatification of Ven. Dominic to mark the centenary [presumably of his reception of Newman into the Catholic Church].

4. A typed copy of the Editorial of the Westminster Catholic Chronicle and Diocesan Gazette, November 1944, vol.XXXVIII, no.11, p.169, regarding the centenary in 1945 of Dominic’s receiving Newman into the Catholic Church.

5. Two typed copies of the Petition to the Pope, 1945, Latin.

6. A typed copy of the Minutes of the first Meeting of the Ven. Dominic Committee, Blythe Hall, 19 October 1944, written by Sebastian of Jesus Crucified

1. Articles proposed by the Postulator, Father Gregory of the Sorrowful Virgin for the Apostolic Process of the Venerable Father Dominic of the Mother of God, Passionist, 1912. Original in Latin. This translation by Father Urban [Young] of the Blessed Sacrament.

2. A handwritten copy [made by Father Urban Young] of the oath to be taken by the witnesses to the holiness of the Venerable Dominic of the Mother of God [probably 1912]. Latin and English.

3. MS., Birmingham, 4 October 1912, Latin

4. MS. in Fr Urban Young’s writing about the Process in 1912, 9 October, Birmingham, Latin.

5. MS. in Fr Urban Young’s writing about the Process, Birmingham, 23 October 1912, Latin

6. A photocopy of an extract from the Sutton Platea, August 1923

7. A photocopy of the Process in Viterbo, 12 July 1925. Italian.

8. A typed carbon copy of the report of a meeting of the Ven. Dominic Committee (Fathers Leo, Arthur, Joseph, Urban and Alban), 6 February 1936: on how to promote his Cause
   Attached to the script is a letter, Sutton, 4 April 1936, from Fr Arthur CP to Father Rector, asking him to have the report read in the refectory.

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1. A carbon typed copy of the testimony given by John Henry, Cardinal Newman to Cardinal Parocchi, Vicar of Rome, 2 October 1889 [Oratory, Birmingham]

2. A photocopy of Newman;’s actual testimony

3. A manuscript of the Ultimate Session of the Apostolic Process, Latin.

4. A typed copy of a letter of the Father General of the Passionists, Father Bernard Mary of Jesus, SS John and Paul’s, Rome, 18 January 1898, regarding the Cause of Father Dominic Barberi and asking ‘Rvde Pater’ [probably the Rector] to submit any writings to the postulators, Fathers Germanus and Stanislaus

File relating to the procedures for applications for temporary and permanent residency permits in South Africa. The file includes copy correspondence from the Most Rev. John T. Dunkin, Bishop of Louis Trichardt-Tzaneen, and circulars from the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference to the Major Religious Superiors and Local Ordinaries. The documents refer to the difficulties encountered by Catholic religious in obtaining permits to work in Apartheid-era South Africa. One of the circulars affirms that ‘if asked, state that you are to minister to Whites … in such and such an area. It is recommended that you do NOT state that you are coming to minister to Blacks’.