Hagiography and Relics
Challoner (see below) compiled Barlow's biography from two manuscripts belonging to St Gregory's Monastery, one of which was written by his brother Dom Rudesind Barlow, President of the English Benedictine Congregation. A third manuscript, titled "The Apostolical Life of Ambrose Barlow", was written by one of his pupils for Dom Rudesind, and is presently in the John Rylands Library, Manchester; it has been printed by the Chetham Society.
Two portraits of Barlow and one of his father, Sir Alexander, are known to exist. Many of his relics are also preserved, a hand being at Stanbrook Abbey near Worcester and his skull at Wardley Hall.
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