File 2025-06-19/2166 - Varia

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FILE EIGHTEEN: VARIA

1. A photograph of the manuscript of Blessed Dominic’s First Sermon in English, Aston Hall, 1842

2. A photocopy of Blessed Dominic’s First Sermon in English, Aston Hall, Passion Sunday, 1842

3. A brown envelope containing:
   3a) A small Manual of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary with Blessed Dominic’s signature at the back, 1844

3b) Notes on a Sermon given by Blessed Dominic to the Young Professed Nuns at St Benedict’s Priory: a conversation between Our Lady (Mary) and Filothea, on faithfulness as a spouse of Christ

3c) An original manuscript of six leaves of a meditation on the Renewal of Vows, Italian. Blessed Dominic’s writing is on the front, Italian. The writing of the Meditation may be that of Father Gaudentius Rossi CP, one of Blessed Dominic’s Community at Aston Hall, 1842-1849. Within the manuscript is a portion of one of Blessed Dominic’s manuscripts in his own writing, Italian.

4. Two printed copies of A Note written by Blessed Dominic in his own handwriting in his Introduction to the English translation of St Vincent Strambi’s Life of Paul of the Cross, published in England in 1853. The Note is cancelled by Dominic as not expedient for publication at the time he wrote [obviously before his death in 1849]

5. A handwritten copy of Blessed Dominic’s ‘Instructions to Young Missioners in England’, 1849. [See also File 16.]