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Letter from Father Maturin to Bishop Amigo regarding his attendance at Father Tyrrell's funeral.

Identifier

SAA-S95.4-D080

Call Number

SAA-S95.4-D080

Collection

Archdiocese of Southwark

Creator

Maturin, Basil William, Rev., 1847-1915

Contributor

Amigo, Peter Emmanuel, Archbishop, 1864-1949

Date

1909-08-22

Page Count

5

Coverage

Soho, London, Middlesex, England

Location

e-resource|Archdiocese of Southwark

Type

Text

Content Type

Letter

Language

English

Publication Origin

Not Published

Authors & Recipients
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Maturin, Basil William, Rev., 1847-1915

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, took Anglican Orders, joined the Oxford Crowley Fathers and sent to St Clement's parish, Philadelphia in 1876. In 1897 he joined the Catholic Church and was Ordained a Catholic priest in 1898. In May 1915 he was sailing onboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoes by the Germany Navy, he went down with the ship.

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Amigo, Peter Emmanuel, Archbishop, 1864-1949

Born on Gibraltar, the son of Peter Lawrence Amigo. Trained at Ware and Hammersmith, ordained 1888. Served on the staff at Ware from 1888 to 1892, then as curate at Hammersmith from 1892 until 1896. Appointed then to the Commercial Road in East London where he served first as curate, then latterly as rector. In 1901 he moved to be rector at Walworth. In March 1904 upon the elevation of Bishop Francis Bourne as the 4th Archbishop of Westminster, Amigo was appointed to succeed him as Bishop of Southwark. Over the next forty-five years he was a key driving force in the anti-Modernist movement, being responsible for the excommunication of Father Tyrrell SJ, then of Abbe Henri Bremond. He was later involved with the hunger strike of Terence McSwiney in Brixton prison. Amigo was made an Archbishop at his Golden Jubilee in 1938, but in 1940 he saw his Cathedral almost destroyed in the blitz.

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