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"It is therefore as important to make no mistake in education, as it is to make no mistake in the pursuit of the last end, with which the whole work of education is intimately and necessarily connected. In fact, since education consists essentially in preparing man for what he must be and for what he must do here below, in order to attain the sublime end for which he was created, it is clear that there can be no true education which is not wholly directed to man's last end, and that in the present order of Providence, since God has revealed Himself to us in the Person of His Only Begotten Son, who alone is "the way, the truth and the life," there can be no ideally perfect education which is not Christian education." Pope Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri, Encyclical on Christian Education.

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Saturday, 8 October 2011

Blue Plaque to Blessed Dominic Barberi

Inaugurated and blessed today, 8th October, in Reading on the site of the old Station Tavern where Blessed Dominic Barberi died in 1849.

Blessed Dominic Barberi, pray for us.












The following is a window from the Church of St James in Reading (next to Reading Gaol), and it commemorates Cardinal Newman, Blessed Dominic Barberi, and the anniversary of the Church.


Reading had a major relic of St James in pre-reformation times, and Reading Abbey was a site of pilgrimage as well as royal patronage.
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