John Dobree Dalgairns

John Dobree Dalgairns (21 October 1818 – 6 April 1876),

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Life

Dalgairns attended

Congregation of the Oratory

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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 member of the Metaphysical Society. He died at Burgess Hill, near Brighton, on 6 April 1876.

Works

Soon after taking his degree, Dalgairns contributed a letter to

, a commentary on the Gospels, taken from the works of the Fathers.

He was a contributor to Newman's Lives of the English Saints, for which he wrote the studies on the

has been translated into several languages.

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) (See

German mysticism

); 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 Joseph Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. ii.

Notes

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dalgairns, John Dobree". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Cooper, Thompson (1888). "Dalgairns, John Dobree" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13.