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AAW - Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
DOW - Diocese of Westminster
DC - Diocesan Curia
5 - Communications
6 - Oremus
Repository
Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
Ref No
AAW/DOW/DC/5/6/25
Title
Oremus - June 2016
Date
June 2016
Level
Item
Description
This edition includes the following news and articles:
Cathedral Life: Past and Present-
Cathedral History: 'Gertrude Martin' by Patrick Rogers. An article about Gertrude Martin who was a young protégé of Cathedral Mosaicist George Bridge, and became the only woman master mosaicist in the country.
'A Photographic Record: Cardinal Griffin's Last Public Mass, June 1956' This article features a black and white image of Cardinal Bernard Griffin preaching High Mass for 'Catholic Holders of the Victoria Cross, which was celebrated at the Westminster Cathedral on the 28 June 1956. Griffin suffered a heartache during the service and died of a subsequent heart attach a few weeks later.
Features:
'A Tudor Bishop of Westminster' by Fr Nicholas Schofield. A article about Bishop Thomas Thirlby who was the first and only Bishop of Westminster .
'Cardinal Vaughan:Bishop of Salford ' by Fr Robert O'Neil. An article about Herbert Vaughan's time as Bishop of Salford.
'Blessed James Walworth and His Brothers' by Robert Walworth. An article about Carthusian monk James Walworth, and his martyrdom under Henry VIII in 1537.
'Celebrating the Church's newest Saint: The woman who refounded the Brigittines' by Joanna Bogle. This is an article about Mother Elizabeth Hesselblad, a Swedish woman who revived the Brigittines and reestablisehd the order as the Brigittine Sisters. She was canonised in June of 2016 for hiding Jewish families during the Second World War.
Format
Printed document
Language
English
Album amicorum of George Strachan
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