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Repository	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Ref No	RCS/SJW/SPC/2/7
Title	Thomas More exhibition materials
Date	Undated, [late 20th Century?]
Level	Item
Description	Mounted information on St. Thomas More and the papal bull of canonisation of More and St. John Fisher, prepared for exhibitions; lists of items on loan for two exhibitions, at Southwark Cathedral and Surrey University Library. Includes an extract from the 'Southwark Record', September 1939, and how it arrived at the Seminary; review by Phillip Hallett of R W Chambers' 'Thomas More'; meditation and prayers of More written whilst he was a prisoner; mounted photograph of the 'Stonyhurst Relics of St. Thomas More'; short biography of More; copy of Hans Holbein's portrait of St. Thomas More's father; copy of a painting showing the meeting of Thomas More with his daughter, Margaret Roper, as the martyr was led back to the Tower after his trial; two miniature portraits of Thomas More; copy of the Order of Service for the procession into St. Peter's, 19th May 1935; copy of a letter from Fr. Smith of the English College, Rome, suggesting that Bishop Amigo go to Rome to ask for the canonisation, December 1934; copy of a letter of thanks from Bp. Amigo to Pope Pius XI for allowing the process of canonisation to be speeded up, July 1934.

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