Series 2025-06-19/2142 - Testimonies

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GB DA CPUK/XIII/2025-06-19/2142

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Testimonies

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  • 1800 - 1990 (Creation)

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FILING CABINET 010: BARBERI PAPERS:

DRAWER TWO:

FILE SIXTEEN: BLESSED DOMINIC: TESTIMONIES TO BLESSED DOMINIC

FOLDER ONE:

Remarks on the life of Revd F. Dominick by Fr Bernard O’Loughlin CP, who lived with Blessed Dominic at Aston hall

A photostat of an entry, 1840, from vol.1 of the Anglo-Hibernian Annals of Fr Salvian Nardocci CP about the arrival of Blessed Dominic in England

A copy of an excerpt from the Chronicles of the Poor Clares, Darlington, pp. 614-623, A/C for the year 1843: a retreat given by Fr Dominic Barberi CP

A typed extract from a letter of Thomas Constable to his cousin, Marmaduke Constable Maxwell, 3 April 1845, about Blessed Dominic’s visit to Myddelton lodge, Ilkley

A photocopy of a typed extract from a letter of Thomas Constable to his cousin, Marmaduke Constable Maxwell, 3 April 1845, about Blessed Dominic’s visit to Myddelton lodge, Ilkley

A photocopy of p.46, Chronicles of a French/Belgian convent, 7 August 1846 about a retreat given by Father Dominic Barberi CP; and two copies of another Chronicle in the same house, 15 August 1846, referring to the same retreat

A photocopy of a MS, based on the testimony of P. Seraphim, Belgium, written 1924. (Am not sure what this is.)

A letter, 13 August 1925, from the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton to Fr Urban Young CP about retreats Blessed Dominic gave at their convent of Berrymead in 1846 and 1847

A letter, 4 January 1937, from St Mary’s Abbey, East Bergholt, Colchester to Fr Urban Young CP about a retreat and instructions to a First Communion Class Blessed Dominic gave in their convent at Winchester in 1847

A photocopy of an article in the Rambler, October 1849, vol.IV, part XXII, pp.400-404: ‘Memoir of the Very Rev. Father Dominic’. Unsigned [Written by Fr Gaudentius Rossi CP?]

A large, brown envelope: Various Letters, 1912 - 1926, containing references to Blessed Dominic’s holiness

A typed Affirmation by Teresa Williams, 392 Watery Lane, Sutton of favours received through the intercession of Blessed Dominic Barberi CP, 1990
Funeral details of Sir Bernard Caulfield, 24 October 1994 and a letter, 24 October 1994, to Father James Eamer CP, Rector, from John Caulfield, thanking him for his kindness to him and his brothers and sister on their father’s death. Refers to his grandmother’s and father’s devotion to Blessed Dominic Barberi.

Notes on favours received through praying to Blessed Dominic, by Monica Feeney, given to the archives, May - June 2000

FOLDER TWO: STATEMENTS ABOUT BARBERI (NEWMAN):

A handwritten copy of a letter, 11 July 1845 from J.H. Newman to Richard Westmacott [original in Birmingham Oratory]; copies of a number of other letters also in the Birmingham Oratory relating to Fr Dominic; and two photocopies of the letter, 2 October 1889, Cardinal Newman wrote sponsoring Fr Dominic’s Cause

An original letter, Littlemore, 8 October 1845, from J.H. Newman to Watts Russell; and also a typed transcript of this letter.

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