Douglas and Marie Immaculée Acton Woodruff Family Papers

Woodruff, Douglas, 1897-1978

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(John) Douglas Woodruff was born on May 8, 1897 to Cumberland Woodruff and Emily Louise Hewitt in Wimbledon, England. Woodruff converted to Catholicism at the age of 13, following his mother’s conversion. Woodruff was educated at Downside School, and New College, Oxford. At Oxford, Woodruff was a member of the Union’s debating team alongside his friend Christopher Hollis, later a Conservative politician. From 1936 to 1967, Woodruff was editor of the Tablet, a Catholic weekly international rev...

Acton, Marie Imaculeé, 1905-1994

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Marie Imaculeé Acton was born on April 1, 1905 in Berne, Switzerland to Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron of Acton, and Dorothy Lyon. Acton was the eldest of nine children. Her father was a diplomat at the British Legation. Acton studied singing in Vienna and London, and cared for sick pilgrims in Lourdes. In Lourdes, she met the Catholic journalist Douglas Woodruff, whom she married in 1933. Acton assisted Woodruff in his editorship of the Tablet, an English Catholic weekly international...

Tablet Publishing Company (London, England)

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English Catholic periodical The Tablet was founded in London in 1840 by Frederick Lucas, a Quaker convert to Catholicism. As of 2023, it was the second oldest weekly journal in Britain....

Belloc, Elodie Hogan, 1868-1914

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Elodie Agnes Hogan was born in 1868 in Napa, California to Irish immigrant parents. She considered becoming a nun with the Order of the Sisters of Charity and spent time at a convent in Maryland before deciding to not pursue a religious vocation. She met her husband, Hilaire Belloc who was a British writer, in London in 1890 while on a family trip. Elodie's mother, Ellen, initially did not approve of Hilaire because she thought he was too young and would not be able to provide for her daughter. ...

Woodruff, Cumberland H.

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Woodruff family

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Brackner, W. J.

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Catholic Church

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During much of Doctor José Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...

Acton, Richard Maximilian Dalberg Acton, Baron, b. 1870.

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Acton family

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Rospigliosi, Guardino Riccardo Carlo Francesco Maria, b. 1938

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Acton, Dorothy Lyon Dalberg Acton, Lady, 1876-1923

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Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. Northcote, 1862 Mar. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129748 John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, the first Baron Acton, was an English aristocrat and historian. His Catholicism influenced his early life, and he travelled throughout Western Europe and the United States. He had a brief Parliamentary career, but remained an important advisor to the Liberal government of William Gladstone. He wro...

Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958

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Poet. From the description of Papers of Alfred Noyes, 1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454022 Author Alfred Noyes was born in England and attended Oxford, although he left without earning a degree. He published his first book of poems at the age of twenty-one, and within ten years had become the most commercially successful poet of his day. Popular and prolific, Noyes wrote disarming, skillful verse in traditional metre, and actively opposed the Modernist movement. He ...

Woodruff, Emily Louisa

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Acton, Richard Maximilian Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1870

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