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Commentary: Accession number 53 is the second of two sermons bound together
in the order accession number 52 and accession number 53. The sermon exists in
note form only. A note at the head reads “1767.”
Keywords: death, inevitability of; repentance;
55. BEADNALL, JAMES. (MD; Cath.; 1718-1772; in MD 1749-1772)
“[On penance.]” [1755] 8pp. [Acc. No. 449]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
Bib. Ref.: “Poenitentiam agite. Do Penance. Math. 3.2.”
Commentary: A note at the head reads “Adv. E.N. 1755. 1757. St. Jos. Gilley’s 1760.”
A note at the end reads “Bourd. T. II p. 462 1763.” The concluding sentence was
revised and re-written in the hand of the Rev. Sylvester Boarman. This sermon
is based on the “Sermon pur le IV. dimanche de l’Avent. Sur la penitence” by the
French Jesuit Rev. Louis Bourdaloue. Cf., for instance, Bourdaloue’s Sermons ... pour
l’Avent. Paris: Aux depens de Rigaud, 1716, pp. 462-506. Beadnall, a Jesuit, served in
Maryland from 1749 until his death.
Keywords: Boarman, Rev. Sylvester; Bourdaloue, Rev. Louis;
56. BEADNALL, JAMES. (MD; Cath.; 1718-1772; in Md 1749-1772)
“[On the Resurrection.]” [1755] 2pp. [Acc. No. 235a]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
Bib. Ref.: “Surrexit Dns vere, & apparuit. Luke 24.34. Our Lord is truely risen, & has
appear’d.”
Commentary: Only the biblical text survives. A note at the head reads “1755 Seth’s
Talb. Island.” A note on the verso reads “Of The Resurrection 1767.” Beadnall, a
Jesuit, served in Maryland from 1749 until his death.
57. BEADNALL, JAMES . (MD; Cath.; 1718-1772; in MD 1749-1772)
“On St. Ignatius’ Feast.” [1764] 10pp. [Acc. No. 6]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
Bib. Ref.: “Son in Mildness keep thy Soul & do her Honour according to her Merit.
Ecclus. x.31.”
Commentary: The sermon is imperfect. It is incomplete at the end. A note at the
head of page 1 reads “On St. Ignatius &c High Mass &c On the price of a soul.” A
note at the head of page 3 reads “1764.”
Keywords: soul, price of; worldliness, folly of;
58. BEADNALL, JAMES . (MD; Cath.; 1718-1772; in MD 1749-1772)
“[On the use of time.]” [1765] 8pp. [Acc. No. 3]
Repository: Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Woodstock College Archives)
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