File 2025-06-20/2183 - Recognitio Corporis 1936 - Home Office

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FILE TWO: BARBERI: RECOGNITIO CORPORIS, 1936

FOLDER ONE: No title

Instructions, 9 December 1935, from the Sacred Congregation of Rites, drawn up on 16 November 1935 by Fr Salvator Natucci, General Promoter of the Faith, to the Archbishop of Liverpool about the exhumation, examination and reburial of Ven. Dominic’s body

A letter, 5 May 1936, from Fr Egidio CP, Postulator General to Fr Urban Young, Vice-Postulator, regarding the exhumation and identification of Ven. Dominic’s body

A record of a meeting concerning the Cause of the Ven. Servant of God, Ven. Dominic of the Mother of God, held in St Anne’s, Sutton, Monday, 14 September 1936 with Home Office officials about the procedure of exhumation and identification.

A record of a meeting at the Curial Offices, Liverpool, Tuesday, 20 October 1936, fixing 4 November 1936 for the exhumation and identification of Fr Dominic’s body

Typed papers detailing the procedure to be followed on 4 November 1936

A typed Latin MS., 4 November 1936, recording the recognition of Fr Dominic’s body in 1936, in the presence of Archbishop Richard Downey

A letter, 5 August 1936, from solicitors, London to Fr Gribben, St Joseph’s, Highgate, about a letter from the Home Office

A letter, 11 August 1936, from solicitors to Fr Provincial, St Mary’s Retreat, Carmarthen, S. Wales, regarding the Home Office

A letter 21 August 1936, from solicitors to Fr Provincial, Highgate about the Secretary of State’s Licence

A letter, [?] August 1936, from the Home Office, Whitehall to the solicitors about the conditions on which they will allow the exhumation to take place

A letter, 20 August 1936, from the Home Office to the solicitors regarding the exhumation

A letter, 2 September 1936, from solicitors to Fr Provincial about the licence from the Home Office

A letter, 24 September 1936, from Fr Egidio CP, Postulator General to Fr Provincial about the translation of Ven. Dominic and the Home Office. Latin.

A letter, 20 October 1936, from the Home Office to the solicitors

A letter, 21 October 1936, from solicitors to Fr Leo Gribben CP about the Home Office Licence

A letter, 23 October 1936, from solicitors to Fr Leo Gribben CP, Highgate, about the Home Office Licence

The Home Office Licence for the removal of Ven. Dominic’s body before 1 December 1936

A typed copy of a letter to the Home Office from the solicitors regarding a properly built shrine

A handwritten MS. of a letter to the Home Office from the solicitors regarding a properly built shrine