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FILING CABINET 010: BARBERI PAPERS:
DRAWER TWO:
FILE TWENTY-FOUR: BLESSED DOMINIC: PETITION TO THE HOLY FATHER
FOLDER ONE: No title
A letter, 26 October 1981, to Fr Colum Devine CP from Most Rev. Paul Mary Boyle, Superior General, saying that Cardinal Hume had said it was impossible for the Pope to visit Sutton but possible to have a petition asking for his Canonisation of Blessed Dominic without further miracles
A letter, 2 November 1981, from Fr Colum Devine, Provincial, Highgate, to the Province, regarding the hope that Pope John Paul II might visit Sutton and that some honour might be bestowed on Blessed Dominic and/or Father Ignatius Spencer.
Two copies of a letter, 27 November 1981, from Fr Colum Devine to the Province, 1) saying that Cardinal Hume was not in favour of linking the Canonisation of Blessed Dominic with Pope John Paul II’s Pastoral Visit to England; and 2) giving quotations from letters of petition for his Canonisation without further miracles
A cutting from a newspaper regarding the Petition and forms available from Fr Eugene Kennan CP, Sutton
Another newspaper cutting regarding the Petition, 1981
Petition for the Canonisation of Blessed Dominic, Passionist, St Joseph’s Province (England, Wales and Sweden), 1982 plus a small booklet, Testimonies to Blessed Dominic Barberi, Passionist (Leicester, 1982)
Two yellow folders containing Correspondence with the Hierarchy and Others for an Appeal to Pope John Paul II for the Canonisation of Blessed Dominic during the Papal Visit to England in 1982 and a cutting from the Universe, 20 October 1944 about a petition in 1944.
Testimonies to Blessed Dominic Barberi, Passionist, 1982, 3 copies
Copies of Petition to the Holy Father, 1982
A letter, 12 March 1982, from Fr Colum Devine to the Province, saying the emphasis on Blessed Dominic in Rome was as an Apostle of Christian Unity and there should be signs from Anglicans as well as Catholics
A letter, 14 April 1982, from Brother Bernard CP, Provincial Secretary, to the Province saying that Fr Eugene Kennan, representing the Provincial, and the Superior General would present the Petition on 16 April to Cardinal Willebrand
FILING CABINET 010: BARBERI PAPERS:
DRAWER TWO:
FILE TWENTY-FIVE: ALBUM OF ORIGINAL LETTERS OF PETITION