John Dobree Dalgairns

Background

John Dalgairns was born in Guernsey on the 21st of October, 1818.

Education

About the age of seventeen he entered Exeter College, Oxford.

Career

After taking his degree John Dobree Dalgairns 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.

John Dobree Dalgairns was a contributor to Newman'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.

Achievements

• John Dobree Dalgairns was best known for his works: "The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus"; "The German Mystics of the Fourteenth Century"; "The Holy Communion".

Works

• book

  • The Contemporary Review: The Bearing of Infallibility on Religious Truth (Classic Reprint)

Membership

Dalgairns was a member of the Metaphysical Society.