Er Aedibus Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles [Sawston Chapel Reopening]
Diocesan News: Aldeburgh and Leiston; Beccles; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Daventry and Weedon; Gorleston-on-Sea; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Laxton; March; Northampton; Norwich (St John's); Olney; Peterborough; Raunds; Slough; Woodbridge
A Legend of the Daisy - Sr Mary Paul OSB [verse]
Cardinal Manning's Oblates - Wilfred C Robinson FRHistS
A Little Miracle of St Therese of the Infant Jesus (Hugh Wycombe)
Norfolk Annals (continued) - H S Squirrell
Baylis House. Catholic School and Catholic Centre, 1830-1907 - Edwin H Burton DD
Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Diocese of Northampton
89 Archive Record results for Diocese of Northampton
Diocesan News: Aldeburgh and Leiston; Aylesbury; Beaconsfield; Beccles; Bedford; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Daventry and Weedon; Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Lowestoft; Northampton; Norwich (St John's) & (Wymondham & North Walsham); Olney; Peterborough; Rushden; Slough; Woodbridge
History of Bungay Mission
Catholic Needlework Guild (Annual report 1925)
The Early Days of the Monks at Bury St Edmund's
The Blackfriars of King's Lynn
Rescue Work: Bishops Letter; Inter Aia; Summer Holidays; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Volume VI Index 1928-1931
Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Aldeburgh and Leiston; Beccles; Bedford; Billing; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Daventry and Weedon; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Lowestoft; Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Peterborough; Slough; Wellingborough; Wymondham
Most Reverend Frederick William Keating - Archbishop of Liverpool - RIP - JF [Obituary]
Beauvais Cathedral - HS Squirrel
The Pearl of Great Price - X
Venerable Thomas Tunstall - English Martyr - Ed
Association for the Propogation of the Faith [Incomefor 1927]
Rescue Work: Archbishop Keatin RIP; Finance; Inter Aia; Summer Holidays; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Diocesan News: Aldeburgh; Aylesbury; Beccles; Bedford , Convent of the Holy Ghost; Billing; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Lowestoft; Lynford; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Prince's Risborough; Slough; Swaffham; Wellingborough; Woodbridge; Wymondham
The Cathedrals of Bougers and Chatres - HS Squirrel
The Stork of Saint Francis - A Legend - Victor De Brant
St Felix - Apostle of East Anglia - Henry St Leger Mason
"Father Reginald Buckler OP" (1840-1927) [book review]
Growth in Appreciation of the Truths of God
Rescue Work: Inter Aia; Summer Holidays; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Beccles; Bedford; Billing; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Dunstable; Hunstanton; Ipswich (St Pancras); Leiston; Lowestoft; Luton; Marlow; Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Slough; Thetford and Brandon; Wellingborough; Woodbridge; Wolverton; Wymondham
Our New Canon - Very Rev Thomas Canon Walmsley Carter - JF
Popular Resistance to the New Relgion - Bishop of Clifton
The Proto-Martyr of the Seminarists - F Sammons
Norfolk Wanderings [Churches of Norwich]
Rescue Work: 1869-1929 [Diamond Jubilee]; Inter Alia; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Beccles; Bedford; Great Billing; Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Chalfont St Peter; Daventry and Weedon; Dunstable; Hunstanton; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); King's Lynn; Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Peterborough; Slough; Thetford and Brandon; Woodbridge
Words of Wisdom and Common Sense - FB
His Orchestra - Sr MP OSB [verse]
The Burden of the Day - Francis E Sammons
St Ethelbert's, Hessett - JE Ebsworth
Popular Resistance to the New Relgion (continued) - Bishop of Clifton
Rescue Work: Urgent Appeal 1869-1929; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Aylesbury; Aylsham; Daventry and Weedon; Gerard's Cross; Great Billing; Hunstanton; Ipswich (St Pancras); Norwich (St John the Baptist); North Walsham; Northampton; Olney; Slough; Thetford; Wellingborough; Woodbridge; Wolverton; Wymondham
The Attempted Rehabilitation of Peter Cauchon - CA Snowden
For Easter Day - MMF [verse]
History without Reading, but not without Tears - WL Arrowsmith
A Byzantine Church - ECW
A New Guild for East Anglia
Rescue Work: Bis dat qui cito dat; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Er Aedis Nostris - Bp Dudley Charles
Diocesan News: Aylesbury; Beccles; Bedford; Cambridge; Hunstanton; Ipswich (St Mary); Ipswich (St Pancras); Kng's Lynn; Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Olney; Peterborough; Slough; Wellingborough; Woodbridge
The Institution of the guild of St Felix and St Edmund
Old Lamos for New - Viator
SS Peter and Paul, Wenhaston - Janet E Ebsworth
Saint on Our Lady - HG Hughes
Rescue Work: Holiday Fund; Inter Alia; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
The Book - Moya McManus [verse]
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Not impressed that the Diocese has a £22-15-0 debt on St Neots. This money he supposes was for a fence that the buyer of some land had been told to fence at his own expense. The debt was applied to St Neots without telling the priest in charge until seven years later.
Malone, John F Rev (-1970)Form from the English College for Fr Malone's dispensation to take food between masses. 75 lira tax and 5 lira agency fee.
CorrespondentTo the Diocese - Provost John Freeland, VG
Diocesan News: Aston-le-Walls; Beaconsfield; Beccles; Bedford; Bury St Edmund's; Cambridge; Ipswich (St Pancras); Norwich (St John the Baptist); Sudbury; Swaffham; Wellingborough
The Church and the Poor (313-900AD) - CA Snowden
Father George H Miles RIP - MJ Geraghty [Obituary]
Rome Fifty-Nine years Ago - Francis Seymour Stevenson
Favours Received at Leighton Buzzard - through the miraculous medal of Our Blessed Lady - Henry Long
Pastons of Appleton, Norfolk - Katharine Paston-Bedingfeld
They that go down to the Sea in Ships III - Harold S Squirrell
Rescue Work: Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home; Masses for Benefactors
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Th eRight Reverend Bishop Dudley Charles Cary-Elwes, Bishop of Northampton - RIP - Editor [Obituray]
Diocesan News: Aston-le-Walls; Aylesbury, Beccles; Beaconsfield; Bedford; Bury St Edmund's; Chesham Bois; Ipswich (St Mary's); Ipswich (St Pancras); Marlow; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Northampton; Wellingborough; Great Yarmouth; Woodbridge
Fr Bernard McCaul - by one of the Deanery
The Death and Burial of Our Bishop - FB
A Catholic Artist (continued)
The Church and the Poor (The Post-Reformation Period)
The Special Preacher, A True Story - Rev F M Davies
Masses for Benefactors
Rescue Work - Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home
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From the Vicar Capitular - John Freeland
Diocesan News: Aston-le-Walls; Beccles; Bedford; Cambridge; Felixstowe; Gerrards Cross; Ipswich (St Pancras); Northampton; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Peterborough; Sudbury; Woodbridge
Per Crucem ad Lucem - L Smith-Dampier
Fr Andrew Joseph Key RIP
Sacramental Fonts in Norfolk - Very Rev. F C Husenbeth DD
A Catholic Artist (continued)
The Church and the Poor (The Post-Reformation Period)
Rescue Work - Appeal by John Provost Freeland; Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home
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Our Bishop [Bishop Youens]
Editorial Notes - HSS
Diocesan News: Aldeburgh; Aston-le-Walls; Beccles; Bedford; Cambridge; Dereham; Fakenham; Ipswich; Newmarket; Norwich (St John the Baptist); Sheringham; Slough; Northampton; Wellingborough; Wymondham
Where the Unemployed found Work - for God - Fr Godfrey Anstruther OP
The Ordination of Father Valentine Elwes - Frank Byrne
The Dunwich Pilgrimage in Honour of Saint Felix, Apostle of East Anglia
"I Wonder-" - FES
Favours Received through the "Miraculous Medal" of Our Lady - Fr Henry Long
An Essay on Restoration - Very Rev Canon Squirrell
Rescue Work - Deceased Benefactors of St Francis Home
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The magazine was edited by Fr Thomson, a co-founder of the Guild. Originally a monthly magazine, during the war years (and to the Winter of 1948-9) it became a quarterly issue. The format comprised regular items (see contents file) of news from parishes, articles on the Catholic faith and belief, historical items, a series describing Diocesan Churches, clerical appointments, obituaries and an irregular listing of the Bishop's appointments for the month/quarter.
News from the Parishes were free form and depending on the parish may contain references to events (fetes, parties, visitations, confirmations, etc.), comments about clerical comings and goings, references to significant parishioners, births, deaths, marriages, war time restrictions and events, etc.
In post-war Britain, many parts of the Northampton Diocese, having no Catholic Church or School, were considered "missionary territory" so a Travelling Mission based in Burnham was launched by Bishop Parker in 1949. This scheme had first been used by the Catholic Mission Society in 1911 and then adopted by various Dioceses in England.
Fr Anthony Hulme (later Canon Hulme), Northampton's first Travelling Missioner, used an Austin Countryman to tow a trailer which was a mobile chapel. The trailer, named St Christopher, accommodated some twenty worshippers. The van itself, without the trailer, could be used for open-air Mass by simply lowering the bottom half of the rear door which then became a platform for a small altar.
Fr McCormick joined Fr Hulme in 1959 and in 1960 he was in sole charge when Fr Hulme was sent to Bedford. Fr McCormick used a Land Rover as the van was not up to the job of 30,000 miles per annum. Neither was the trailer and it was retired when it became too decrepit. However, Fr McCormick designed and refitted a Leyland single deck bus as a mobile chapel.
The material in this collection was presented by Fr McCormick to the Diocesan Archives in both Northampton and East Anglia. His covering note [undated] stated: "With feelings of mortality I have gathered together what records remain of my seventeen years of Travelling Mission work. Unfortunately, I didn't keep everything but thought it might be a good idea to put together what survives for the Diocesan Archives of Northampton and East Anglia. I also thought that those who remember the olden days would like a copy. No doubt it could be said that I am blowing my own trumpet!"
Additional material dating from 2010 was held in box CH1 and has been incorporated into this collection.
McCormick, Robert L. Rev (-2015)Extract from Northampton Diocese Directory for 1949 - pgs 99 & 101
An explanation of the history and current practice of a Travelling Mission in the Diocese - specific reference to the first Missioner, Fr Anthony Hulme.
interior of mission van showing altar and seating
Northampton Travelling Mission (1948-1975)