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Francis Aidan Gasquet
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His Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet, O.S.B. (5 October 1846 – 1929) was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar.
Educated at Downside School, he became a monk and Prior of Downside Abbey, 1878-1885. He was a member of the Pontifical Commission to study the validity of the Anglican ordinations (1896) leading to Apostolicae Curae, to which his historical contribution was major. He was President of the Pontifical Commission for Revision of the Vulgate, 1907. He also authored the major history of the Venerable English College at Rome.
He was created Cardinal in 1914. He was also Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives, and Librarian of the Vatican Library.
- Henry VIII and the English Monasteries. 1899.
- The eve of the Reformation; studies in the religious life and thought of the English people in the period preceding the rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII. 1900
- English Monastic Life. 1904
- Leslie, Shane. Cardinal Gasquet, A Memoir. London: Burns, Oates, 1953.
- Knowles, David. Cardinal Gasquet As an Historian. London: Univ. of London: Athlone Press, 1957.
- Jacob, E. F., Lewis Bernstein Namier, Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Hugh Hale Bellot, W. K. Hancock, David Knowles, and John Goronwy Edwards. The Creighton Lectures, 1951-57. London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1952.