Memorials of Father Augustine Baker English Bendictines Catholic Record Society

 CATHOLIC RECORD SOCIETY: VOLUME 33

Memorials of Father Augustine Baker, and Other Documents Relating to the English Benedictines

edited by Justin McCann and Hugh Connolly

Pub. Catholic Record Society, 1933.

Hardback, original blue cloth, top edge gilt.

xi, 313 pages, plus 28 page "Roll of Members"


Augustine Baker OSB (1575 –1641), also sometimes known as "Austin Baker", was a well-known Benedictine mystic and an ascetic writer. He was one of the earliest members of the English Benedictine Congregation which was newly restored to England after the Reformation.

The Catholic Record Society (Registered Charity No. 313529), "the premier Catholic historical society in the United Kingdom", founded in 1904, is a scholarly society devoted to the study of Reformation and post-Reformation Catholicism in England and Wales. Particularly active members in its early years were Joseph Gillow, J. H. Pollen, and Joseph S. Hansom. The society was initially established as a text publication society, with the aim of publishing Catholic historical records. Only later did it become a more general historical society. It has been credited with making much otherwise obscure archival material more readily available. 

Very good condition.