Dossier 2025-06-23/2215 - Press cuttings

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FILING CABINET 009:

DRAWER TWO: SPENCER PAPERS

FILE NINE: PRESS CUTTINGS: SPENCER:

Tablet, 31 July 1927, ref. to Fr Ignatius Spencer’s illness in 1847
Tablet, 1 July 1928, reference to Tablet, 1848. Reference to Fr Ignatius Spencer’s collecting for a Passionist church and convent at Aston Hall.
Tablet, 8 July 1928, referring to entries eighty years earlier; reference to Fr Ignatius Spencer’s preaching in the German Chapel, London.
Tablet, 17 November 1929, referring to 1849; reference to Fr Ignatius Spencer amd new Passionist house at Kingsbury Green, near the Hyde, Edgeware Rd.
Universe, 25 January 1931, letter to the editor by Fr Urban Young CP about Fr Ignatius Spencer CP

L’Osservatore Romano, 21 January 1974, article by Fr Federico Menegazzo CP on Fr Ignatius Spencer CP

Tablet, 13 June 1981, article on the Spencer Family Lineage
The Times, 9 January 1982, Herbert Keldany, ‘Cambridge Movement and Christian Unity’

Universe, 12 July 1992, article about Inauguration of the Cause of Fr Ignatius Spencer CP
Tablet, 18 July 1992, letter from Kevin Heneghan, St Helens about letters Blessed Dominic Barberi CP and Fr Ignatius Spencer CP had written to the Tablet.
Universe, 5 September 1993, article by Sister Dominic Savio CP on Elizabeth Prout, with references to Blessed Dominic Barberi, Cardinal John Henry Newman and Father Ignatius Spencer too.
Newspaper cutting, 1997, paper not identified, Anne Barrowclough, ‘Saintly uncle whose miracles guide Diana’
Catholic Times, 14 September 1997, article by Kevin Heneghan on Fr Ignatius Spencer CP.
Newspaper article, C. Morgan, ‘Sainthood beckons for Diana’s rebel Roman Catholic Ancestor’, Sunday Times, 7 February 1999, 2 copies and a photocopy of it.
Daily Post, 8 February 1999, G. Barnes and A. Williams, ‘Is this the face of Britain’s next saint?’
St Helens Reporter, 10 February 1999, A. Jones, ‘The Borough’s very own Westminster’
St Helens Star, 11 February 1999, D. Whittle, ‘Saintly Puzzle of Sutton Priest’
Universe, 11 July 1999, article by H. Farmer on Father Benedict Lodge’s work on the transcripts of Fr Ignatius Spencer’s Diary and Letters for his Cause.
Press and Journal, 20 July 1999, article by Fergus MacNeil on the work of Fr Benededict Lodge CP on the transcripts of Fr Ignatius Spencer’s Diary and Letters for his Cause.

Universe, 26 November 2000, short article on Fr Ignatius Spencer and the Service in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow on 2 December 2000 to commemorate the First Passionist Mission given in Scotland by Fr Ignatius Spencer [and Frs Gaudentius Rossi and Joseph Bunn] in 1850. Organised by Fr Paul Francis Spencer CP, Rector, St Mungo’s, Glasgow.
Liverpool Catholic Pictorial, 10 December 2000, article by Mgr P. Cookson, ‘Racked tight around inner walls of our undercroft’. Refers to the secret archives of the Diocesan Tribunal [which include the Documentation on the Causes of Fr Ignatius Spencer and Mother Mary Joseph (Elizabeth Prout)]
Liverpool Catholic Pictorial, 17 December 2000, another article on the secret archives of the Diocesan Tribunal [which include the Documentation on the Causes of Fr Ignatius Spencer and Mother Mary Joseph (Elizabeth Prout)]