James Ambrose Cotham, by Joanna Vials Bead Colour_Sterling Silver Ireland and the Commonwealth

Ireland and the Commonwealth

1 x white embroidered cross corporal 6 inches x 6 inches and 1 x white embroidered cross purificator 8

5" inches (11

Size: Height 60 cm / 23

5 inches (12cm)

James Ambrose Cotham, by Joanna Vials Bead Colour_Sterling Silver Ireland and the CommonwealthThe Indomitable Mr Cotham: Missioner, Convict Chaplain, and Monk. James Ambrose Cotham OSB (1810 1883), a Douai monk of the English Benedictine Congregation, was active in the early colonial period in Tasmania as a convict chaplain, and after 1851 as a missioner in England with many and varied relationships with family, co workers, and religious communities. From extensive use of his surviving papers, Joanna Vials has researched his mission, colonial