Franciscan Authors
Franciscan Authors

Pacificus Baker (1695-1774)

Pacificus Baker (1695-1774) OFM. English Friar and spiritual author. He was was brought up as a protestant, but converted to Catholicism. He went to the Southern Low Countriesm, where he studied at Douai and joined the Franciscan. Following a thorough missionarty formation, he was sent back to England. Worked at the Sardinian chapel in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and Guardian of the hexham convent between 1734 and 1737. Thereafter order procurator (1739), definitor, and provincial of the English province (1761-1764, 1770-1773). He died in London on 16 March 1774. Pacificus was a well-respected preacher and a productive author of devotional spiritual texts.

Works

  • Scripture’s Antiquity .

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  • The Devout Christian's Companion for Holy Days (London, 1757).

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  • The Holy Altar and Sacrifice Explained in some familiar dialogues on the Mass (London, 1768). This amounted to an abridgement of F.A. Mason's Liturgical Discourse on the Mass

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  • Lenten Monitor to Christians, in pious thoughts on the Gospels for every day in Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Tuesday, inclusive , 3rd. Ed., 8 Vols. (London, 1769/London, 1827).

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  • The Christian Advent (1782).

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  • The Devout Communicant, Or Spiritual Entertainments Before and After Communion (London, 1761).

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  • Meditations on the Lord’s Prayer (translated from a prior French work).

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  • Sundays kept holy

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  • in moral reflections on the Gospels for the Sundays from Easter to Advent. Being a supplement to the Christian Advent and Lenten Monitor , 2nd Edition (London, 1772).

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  • Essay on the Cord of St. Francis .

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