Author: SARNELLI, JANUARIUS MARY 1702-1744 / BARRY, ALBERT (TRANSLATOR) / O'HAGAN, JOHN 1822-1890 .
Title: [Two Books Bound Together ]: The Holy Rosary: By Venerable Janarius Mary Sarnelli. [Bound With] / The Children's Ballad Rosary: By Mr. Justice O' Hagan.
Description: London And new York: Burns And Oates, Limited / Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 50 O'Connell Street, Upper, [no date - c. 1890?] . 0. Purple buckram over thin boards and spine faded, and corners bumped. 8vo. 7.0" x 5.0". [4pp.]/pp.58/[2pp.]/pp.32/[2pp.]/[1p. -Adverts ]. Gilt titles to front board: "The Holy Rosary: By Venerable Janarius Mary Sarnelli. - The Children's Ballad Rosary: By Mr. Justice O' Hagan." Large bookplate to verso of the front board: "Convent of the Immaculate Conception O.S.F. Bocking, Essex". Light spotting to half title, otherwise clean throughout. Title-page to the first book reads: The Holy Rosary: By Venerable Janarius Mary Sarnelli. Translated By Rev. Albert Barry, C.S.S.R." The second book only measures 5.0" x 3.5". The leaves have been separated and bound interleaved with blank leaves. The title to the second book reads: "The Children's Ballad Rosary. By Hohn O'Hagan, M.A. London: Ofice: 18 West Square, S.E." A most unusual combination! ** "Januarius Maria Sarnelli (12 September 1702 – 30 June 1744) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Redemptorists. Sarnelli was one of Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori's earliest companions and was also a prolific writer during his life; he wrote on a range of religious topics which still survive. He wanted to become a Jesuit though was dissuaded from this before working in the Hospital of the Incurables where his call to the priesthood blossomed. His apostolic zeal knew no limits: he preached missions and aided his friend Liguori in his work; he tended to the sick and helped to get girls out of prostitution despite the threats levelled against him. Sarnelli's fame for holiness was a well-known fact during his life and his beatification cause did not open until 1861 in Naples; formal introduction came in 1874 and he was named as Venerable on 2 December 1906. Pope John Paul II beatified him in mid-1996.." - See Wikipedia *** "Justice John O'Hagan was a Lawyer and man of letters, born at Newry, County Down, Ireland, 19 March, 1822; died near Dublin, 10 November, 1890. He was educated in the day-school of the Jesuit Fathers, Dublin, and in Trinity College, graduating in 1842. Though he made many friendships in Trinity, he was always an earnest advocate of Catholic University education. In this spirit he contributed to the "Dublin Review" (1847) an article which the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland has reprinted under the title "Trinity College No Place for Catholics". Later he contributed to the same Review a criticism of Thomas Carlyle's system of thought, which Carlyle tells in his Diary "gave him food for reflection for several days". In 1842 he was called to the Bar and joined the Munster Circuit. In 1861 he was appointed a Commissioner of National Education, and in 1865 he became Q. C. The same year he married Frances, daughter of the first Lord O'Hagan. After Gladstone had passed his Irish Land Act, he chose Mr. O'Hagan as the first judicial head of the Irish Land Commission, making him for this purpose a judge of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice. This elevation was a tribute not only to his legal attainments and judicial standing but to the place he held in the esteem of his countrymen. He was an earnest Catholic, as is shown in many of his writings, such as "The Children's Ballad Rosary". In his earliest manhood his poems, "Dear Land", "Ourselves Alone", etc, were among the most effective features of "The Nation" in its brilliant youth; in his last years he published the first English translation of "La Chanson de Roland", recognized as a success by the "Edinburg Review" and all the critical journals." - See New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia .

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