Dossier 2025-06-19/2169 - Process for Beatification 1943-46

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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