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JOHN DOBREE DALGAIRNS (1818-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:DOBREE See also:DALGAIRNS (1818-1876)  , See also:English See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:priest, was See also:born in See also:Guernsey on the 21st of See also:October 1818 . About the See also:age of seventeen he entered See also:Exeter See also:College, See also:Oxford, and soon after taking his degree he contributed a See also:letter to See also:Louis See also:Veuillot's ultramontane See also:organ L' Univers, on " See also:Anglican See also:Church Parties," which gave him considerable repute . Together with See also:Mark See also:Pattison and others, he translated the Catena aurea of St See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas, a commentary on the Gospels, taken from the See also:works of the Fathers . He was a contributor to New-See also:man's Lives of the English See also:Saints, for which he wrote the beautiful studies on the Cistercian Saints . The See also:Life of St See also:Stephen See also:Harding has been translated into several See also:languages . See also:Dalgairns became a Roman Catholic in 1845, and was ordained priest in the following See also:year . He joined his friend See also:John See also:Henry See also:Newman in See also:Rome, and, together with him, entered the See also:Congregation of the See also:Oratory . On his return to See also:England in 1848, he was attached to the See also:London Oratory, where he laboured successfully as a priest, with the exception of three years spent in See also:Birmingham . Dalgairns was a prominent member of the well-known " Metaphysical Society." He died at See also:Burgess See also:Hill, near See also:Brighton, on the 6th of See also:April 1876 . During the Catholic See also:period of his life, Dalgairns wrote The Devotion to the Sacred See also:Heart of Jesus, with an Introduction on the See also:History of See also:Jansenism (London 1853); The See also:German Mystics of the Fourteenth See also:Century (London, 1858) ; The See also:Holy Communion, its See also:Philosophy, See also:Theology and Practice (See also:Dublin, 1861) . A See also:list of his contributions on religious and philosophical subjects, to the reviews and See also:periodicals, is given in J . See also:Gillow's See also:Bibliographical See also:Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. ii .

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