Dalgairns, John Bernard

Dalgairns, John Bernard an English priest of the Oratory, was born October 21, 1818. He studied at Oxford, became an adherent of Dr. John Henry Newman, shared with him the monastic life in Littlemore, near Oxford, assisted him in the edition of Lives of British Saints, became a Roman Catholic in 1843, and received holy orders at Langres, in France. He then went to Rome, and after his return to London he became a member of the Oratory there, andi died April 8, 1876. Besides contributions to the Dublin Review and Contemporary Review, he wrote The Sacred Heart and Holy Communion. See Bellesheim, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchen-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)