Sous-série 2025-06-20/2200 - Relics

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RELICS OF BLESSED DOMINIC BARBERI AND OF FR IGNATIUS SPENCER

RELICS OF BLESSED DOMINIC BARBERI CP:

Portable Altar Stone and Work Box used by Blessed Dominic as a Tabernacle
Altar Stone said to have been used by Blessed Dominic Barberi in Stone. On 8 July 1928 it was given to Fr Edmund by Fr Urban Young CP, working on the Cause of Blessed Dominic. The Altar Stone was given to Fr Urban by the Mother Prioress in Stone, who said it was used by Blessed Dominic and that he used to carry it about with him. [This is presumably the Stone that should be in the case but the bottom of the case is pulling apart.]

Passionist Sign worn by Blessed Dominic, presented by Fr Urban Young to Fr Sylvester Palmer and by him to the Central Archives in May 1978

Blessed Dominic’s Profession Cross. This is the Cross given by Father Ignatius Spencer to Sr Scholastica Woods CP about 1863 and kept in her family until 14 September 1990, when Mrs J. Woods of Birchley gave it to St Anne’s Retreat, Sutton. The Woods were close relatives of John Smith, Founder of the Sutton Mission. See copy of family-tree.

Permission given on 19 November 1840 by Fr Seraphim of the Heart of Jesus, Ere, Belgium to Blessed Dominic Barberi CP to say Mass during his journey to England; with an addition from Edward Norris VG, London District, dated 28 November 1840 giving Blessed Dominic permission to say Mass in the London District for one week.

A medicine glass used by Blessed Dominic Barberi CP

Two bones of Blessed Dominic: identification note written in the hand of Fr Salvian Nardocci CP. [Are these the bones taken by Fr Bernard O’Loughlin?] Presented to the Archives by Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, May 1978.

The Crucifix from the Rosary of Blessed Dominic, presented to the Archives by Fr Timothy Cullen CP

A bone of Blessed Dominic in a glass bottle.

Tissue from the Body of Blessed Dominic Barberi CP, presented to the Archives by Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, 1978

A snuff box said to have belonged to Blessed Dominic and to have been given to William Walmesley as a souvenir when Fr Dominic left Stone about 1849. It was given to the Passionists in Harborne, Birmingham prior to 1935 by Mr Walmesley’s widow, Elizabeth Walmesley. See undated [but post 1935] letter of her daughter, Wereburga J. Walmesley to the Passionist Provincial.

A Golden Monstrance holding three relics: from the coffin of Blessed Dominic; from his habit; and a bone of Blessed Dominic.

A blue silk case holding a small monstrance containing a very small piece of bone of Blessed Dominic Barberi CP. Authentification included and dated 27 October 1963. Is this the bone sent from his Beatification in Rome in 1963, which arrived in Sutton a short time afterwards? See Platea.

A porcelain, Staffordshire pottery, figure, about three inches high, mainly white, said to be a figure of Blessed Dominic Barberi CP. Belonged to Miss Bellasis of Deal, who bought it for 6d. In a second-hand shop. Is now a collector’s piece and Miss Bellasis was offered £50 for it. She preferred, however, to give it to the Passionists.

THE LOWER HALF OF THE CUPBOARD

RELICS OF BLESSED DOMINIC BARBERI CP:

The small ring from Blessed Dominic’s Rosary Beads and a piece of wood from his coffin

Notice: ‘“The Lamentation of England” by Venerable Dominic. English translation by Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle. Printed by Cockshaw, High St, Leicester, 1831’ [This item is missing, 19 December 2000.]

A small packet containing a piece of wood from the first coffin of “the Servant of God, Father Dominic of the Mother of God, Passionist”

Three copies of the medal struck on the occasion of the Beatification of Blessed Dominic Barberi, 27 October 1963:- Recto: ‘B. Dominicus a Matre Dei + Angliae Apostolus + 1792-1849’ inscribed round the circumference; a picture of Dominic kneeling on a map of the British Isles; the Passionist Sign in the background.
Dorso: Papal Coat of Arms of Pope Paul VI with the words: XXVII Oct. MCMLXIII
Restituendae Papa VI
Christianorum Renunciator
Unitati Qui Concilium
Vixit - Beatus Vatic. II
A Paulo Praesidente

Portfolio (in a brown envelope) used by Blessed Dominic for carrying his Baptism and Ordination Certificates etc.

A small box containing a piece of girdle worn by Blessed Dominic Barberi, presented to the Archives by Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, May 1978

A box containing a piece of stole worn by Blessed Dominic and presented to the Archives by Fr Sylvester Palmer CP, May 1978

A small box containing a piece of paper inscribed with the signature of Dominic of the Mother of God

Two small red cases each holding wood from the first coffin of Blessed Dominic

A plastic case containing a piece of wood from Blessed Dominic’s coffin, 1936-63

An unidentified relic in a small box
A photostat of Blessed Dominic’s signature and writing in Vetralla

A long oblong case containing an unidentified relic and closed with an ecclesiastical but indecipherable red seal.

OTHER RELICS OF BLESSED DOMINIC BARBERI CP

PRESERVED IN THE ARCHIVES ROOMS: MINSTERACRES

A box of forty-seven First-Class Relics of Blessed Dominic Barberi in Certificates of Authentification and, in the same box, eighty-four First-Class Relics of Blessed Dominic separate from the Certificates of Authentification.

A large piece of wood from the coffin of Blessed Dominic, pre-1973

Some third-class relics, wood from the coffin of Blessed Dominic.

A box of forty-seven First-Class Relics of Blessed Dominic Barberi in Certificates of Authentification and, in the same box, eighty-four First-Class Relics of Blessed Dominic separate from the Certificates of Authentification.

A large piece of wood from the coffin of Blessed Dominic, pre-1973

Some third-class relics, wood from the coffin of Blessed Dominic.

Two relics: wood from his coffin

IN THE SMALL GLASS CASE

Handkerchief of St Paul of the Cross given by Fr Leo Kierkels CP, Superior General, to Fr Urban Young CP when, in 1927, Fr Urban took to Rome all the documents connected with the Cause of Blessed Dominic Barberi from the time when he had taken up the Cause as Vice-Postulator in 1912.