New Book – History of the clergy of the Diocese of Salford New Book –

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We are delighted to announce the publication of the first volume of the History of the clergy of the Diocese of Salford. Over 243 pages and 610 individual biographical profiles (many with photographs), we tell the stories of the missionary Priests who restored the Catholic faith to South and East Lancashire.

The book can be purchased from Amazon at the link below.

THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF SALFORD: Ordinations 1850 to 1902 (Inc. Pre-Diocesan Clergy)

The Diocese of Salford was erected in September 1850 by Papal Bull – Universalis Ecclesiae, known as the Restoration of the Hierarchy. Thirteen new dioceses were created, and Nicholas Wiseman was elevated to the Cardinalate, as the first Archbishop of Westminster. William Turner was appointed as first Bishop of Salford in June 1851; the Church of St John the Evangelist, Salford was elevated to Cathedral status in June 1852; and the Diocesan Chapter erected the following month.
The project to research into the lives and ministries of the early clergy of the Diocese has been ongoing for many years and is now being bought to fruition in a projected two volume publication.

This, the first volume, tells the story of the clergy who were ordained for, or arrived to minister in, the Diocese from its formation in 1850 to the death of the third Bishop of Salford, John Bilsborrow in March 1903, while also including the details of those priests who were ordained prior to the Restoration of the Heirarchy in 1850, but who ministered in the Lancashire District, and before that the Northern District, at churches which would later become part of the Diocese of Salford.

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Extraordinary General Meeting

Seventeen members attended the Extraordinary General Meeting of the CFHS on Zoom this afternoon. The council formally announced the intention to wind-up the society, this will take place following a vote at the AGM which will be held 16th September 2023, concluding 40 years of work – there were no objections raised at the EGM.

Any member wishing to express views on this matter should email cfhsrecords@gmail.com.

Autumn Presentation & AGM

The Families commemorated in Armorial Windows at St Mary’s College, Oscott, Warwickshire

 

Upcoming Talk

22 January 2022, 2pm

SPEAKER

Naomi Johnson BSc, MSc, is the Archivist at the archives of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and Museum Curator at St Mary’s College, Oscott, Sutton Coldfield. 

SUMMARY 

Naomi has begun researching the families of young men who attended the school at Oscott College from the 1790’s until 1889, and who are commemorated in armorial windows there. To do this she has used various resources including those of the College, The Newspaper Archives, and Military Records. The talk will explain a little of the history of the windows and tell the stories of some of those whose stories have been uncovered. 

St Mary’s College, Oscott. (© St Mary’s College, Oscott CIO)

If you would be interested in joining us online for this talk, then please contact us through cfhsrecords@gmail.com. You will in due course be sent a link for Zoom. If you do not have Zoom it is free and easy to download it to your device. Simply search for Zoom on your search engine and follow the instructions. We hope you will want to join us for what promises to be an enlightening talk.

The Bridgettines of Syon Abbey

Upcoming talk 20 November 2pm

 CARMEN M. MANGION is a Senior Lecturer in the department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research examines the cultural and social history of gender and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain focusing on the formation and rethinking of identities during times of social change. She is the author of Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age, Britain 1945-1990 (2020) and Contested Identities: Catholic Women Religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales (2008) and other publications. 

ABSTRACT 

The story of the Bridgettines of Syon Abbey has been remembered as one of triumph over adversity. They were one of two religious orders that were not dispersed after the Reformation, and the only one of the two to have survived thus retaining an unbroken line of succession from the original community founded in south-west London in 1415. After much ‘wanderings’ on the Continent and a short return to England in 1557 during the reign of Mary I, the community settled in Lisbon in 1599. Their permanent return to England in 1861 was celebrated in the Catholic press. This paper is about a lesser-known facet of their history, and examines Syon’s first return in 1809, when, threatened by the approach of Napoleon’s revolutionary forces, ten members of the Syon community in Lisbon returned to England. The paper begins by outlining the story of the 1809 departure from Lisbon. It then moves to what we know of the events that unfolded in England, identifying the individual Bridgettines, the places they resided, and their benefactors. It examines in depth the individual stories of two sisters who are dispersed, examining the fidelity to their identities as Bridgettines. Then, it considers the memory of the 1809 return interrogating how the history of the first return has been remembered and documented arguing the preoccupations of the twentieth century have shaped how the story of Syon’s first return has been told. 

If you would be interested in joining us online for this talk, then please contact us through cfhsrecords@gmail.com. You will in due course be sent a link for Zoom. If you do not have Zoom it is free and easy to download it to your device. Simply search for Zoom on your search engine and follow the instructions. We hope you will want to join us for what promises to be an enlightening talk. 

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Annual Conference & AGM

Due to a lack of interest in the physical conference at Ushaw, we have had to move to an online venue, if interested in attending via zoom, please get in contact for the link

Zoom Talk – Venerable Elizabeth Prout

CFHS Annual Conference 2021

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Zoom Talk – The Hero of the Oak Tree

Saturday 22 May 2021 at 2pm GMT

A Zoom talk entitled:

The Hero of the Oak Tree,

Colonel Carless, the Catholic Recusant who saved King Charles II.

Colonel William Carless fought in the Royalist Army against the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Worcester and was a pivotal figure in the King’s escape survival.

Our speaker is Elaine T. Joyce, the author of the book Nine Witnesses for the Colonel – King Charles II’s Most True and Loyal Friend. Elaine has researched this subject thoroughly and gives insights into the lives and hardships of some of the ordinary Catholic people of Staffordshire in the seventeenth century. 

If you would be interested in joining us online for this talk, then please contact us through cfhsrecords@gmail.com. You will in due course be sent a link for Zoom. If you do not have Zoom it is easy and free to download it to your device. Simply search for Zoom on your search engine and follow the instructions. We hope you will want to join us for what promises to be an enlightening talk.