ENGLISH PASSIONISTS' CENTENARY

CELEBRATIONS AT HIGHGATE AND SUTTON
National celebrations of the 100th anniversary oS tht Passionists in England arc to take place on Sunday, November 9, 1941.
It will be recalled that Ven. Dominic Barberi, C.P., founder of the Congre
gation in England, who was given a
hostile reception on his arrival on Nov. 5, 1840, returned the following year to establish the Order. He will be honoured in London at St. Joseph's, Highgate, where the principal celebrations will be held, and at Sutton, Lanes, where he is buried.
Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, Is to preside and preach at Pontifical High Mass at 11.30 a.m. at Sr. Joseph's, Highgate. The celebrant is to be Bishop Myers. Archbishop Godfrey. Apostolic Delegate to England will give Pontifical Benediction and preach at 4 p.m. The celebrations at Sutton. where an annual pilgrimage of thousands of Catholics in honour of Ven. Dominic is held, will be led by Archbishop Downey.
RECEIVED NEWMAN INTO CHURCH Ven. Dominic Berber:es apostolate in England began almost single-handed. in 1845, he received into the Church the future Cardinal Newman at Littlemore. Later he was to be found (in 1850) at Hendon, near London, acting as his own hall porter while carrying on the Passionist work of missions and eetreats.
His cause is proceeding at Rome, and the exhumation process 'took place at Sutton in 1937 in the presence of Archbishop Downey, the medical evidence being witnessed by two doctoes.
He laboured in England only eight years —it was his life's ambition—but he revived the flames of post-Reforination Catholicism in this country.
The first post-Reformation outdoor procession of the Blessed Sacrament was held by Ven. Dominic at Shine, Staffs, in 1844. He died at 'Reading on August 27, 1849, having been taken ill in a train. Inns which were asked to shelter him refused to take him in, until at last room was found for him at the Station Hotel.
But on the same day the foundation stone of a new Passionist Retreat was being laid at Sutton Oak, St. Helens, Lancashire, and to-day there arc houses of the Passionists at Highgate (the Provincial House), Sutton, Broadway, Birmingham, Herne Bay, Ilkley, Ormskirk, Carmarthen and St. David's (Wales), and Glasgow and Musselburgh, besides Dublin and Belfast and Enniskillen.