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Title: The English Dominicans
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Jarrett, Bede, 1881-1934
Subjects: Dominicans
Publisher: London : Burns, Oates and Washbourne
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to which the chance of exile led them, might be gathered to-
gether into one convent, whence surely could be fed the
English mission. At Rennes he laboured for some time from
1650 to 1652, when he was ordained priest at the age of
twenty-three. From Rennes he journeyed through Paris to
Brussels searching out a convent and studying the traditions
of the Order as he found them alive in the provinces through
which he passed. He has left on record his dislike for what
seemed to him the excessive devotion of the French to minute
points of regulation, finding among the Flemish more of that
width and elasticity of spirit which he most desired to foster
among his own people. As part of the same experience,
many years later in Rome he forcibly declared in the English
College against the education there in vogue, for the young
ecclesiastics came over the seas as boys, forgetting quickly
in a foreign land their native language, and becoming versed
in many knowledges and sciences save such as they most
needed for the conversion of their countrymen. Their
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ENGLISH DOMINICAN COLLEGE, AT BORNHEM IN FLANDERS
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sermons, he asserted, were but the faulty translation of
Spanish and French and Portuguese, done badly into thei
rown tongue. Some such fear as this made Father Thomas
Howard (as his name was in religion) careful in his choice
of place and spirit for his convent. Then he journeyed to
England to inspect the field of labour which was in his
ambitions to engross all his life, and to the more careful
spiritual harvestry of which his plans were now being
directed. But a letter written in this earlier time, though not of im-
portance, is of interest. He describes going to Antwerp in 1656,
and watching a French engineer enter a strange sub
mersible boat which sank, and so hidden from sight beneath
the sea could pass for no short distance. He even accom-
panied his letter to the Master-General with a sketch of this
submarine at which he notes the English exiles stand gaping
on the shore with open mouths. Unfortunately the sketch
has perished.

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