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RCS - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark Diocesan Archives
SJW - St. John's Seminary Archive
MUS - Museum and heritage
3 - Museum documents
Repository
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Ref No
RCS/SJW/MUS/3/6
Title
Prayer intention cards
Date
1871-1928
Level
Item
Description
“Souvenir des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus, mis à mort à Paris (translated: in memory of the fathers in the company of Jesus, put to death in Paris) 24 to 26 May 1871. This card relates to “Bloody Week” in French history, when the Revolutionary government, The Paris Commune, executed the Archbishop of Paris, gendarmes, and priests, who were their hostages, just before they were suppressed by the national Army. There are two of these cards.
Requiem mass card for James Robert Hope-Scott, who died in London, 29 April 1873. Hope-Scott was a Tractarian who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1851, and was involved with Newman in his capacity as an ecclesiastical lawyer. After his first wife died in 1858, he married a daughter of the 14th Duke of Norfolk, a prominent English Catholic.
Requiem mass card for William Gowan Todd, D.D., Canon of Southwark, who died at St. Mary’s Orphanage, Blackheath, on 24 July 1877. Todd founded and managed St. Mary’s Orphanage in 1857.
Requiem mass card for William George Ward, Ph.D., K.S.G. of Weston Manor and Northwood Park, Isle of Wight, who died 6 July 1882. Ward was a Tractarian who converted to Roman Catholicism and was a professor at St. Edmund’s Cole, Ware.
"Pancini Ines offre ai parenti ed agli amici in ricordo della sua santa chresima”; translated – Pancini Ines offers to relatives and friends in memory of his/her Holy Confirmation at Cangelasio, Salsomaggiore in the province of Parma, dated 5 May 1928.
Album amicorum of George Strachan
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