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- 1 2 People of Today (Debrett, 2006, p. 120)
- 1 2 3 4 Dr Dominic Aidan Bellenger, profile at st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk, accessed 20 October 2021
- ↑ James P. MacGuire (ed.), The Catholic Shakespeare? (The Portsmouth Institute, 2013), p. 105
- 1 2 "Benedictine Hearings", 11 December 2017, pp. 1–4, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
- ↑ Father Aidan Bellenger, "Welcome to Downside Abbey", downside.co.uk, 25 December 2010, accessed 20 October 2021
- ↑ The Tablet , 2 June 2018, p. 9
- ↑ The Nation that Forgot God, socialaffairsunit.org.uk, accessed 20 October 2021
- ↑ Colin Amery “Amazing Grace: Review of Downside Abbey: An Architectural History, edited by Dom Aidan Bellenger”, The Spectator, 3 December 2011
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