JOHN

See also:

• DOBREE, PETER PAUL (1782-1825)

DOBREE

See also:

• JOHN DOBREE DALGAIRNS (1818-1876)

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