Upon the news of this double calamity, Charles Baggs was removed by his mother from Englefield Green to a Roman Catholic seminary at Sedgley Park, Staffordshire in June 1820.
[1] He left Rome on 19 April 1844, and was welcomed by a large gathering of the clergy and laity at Prior Park near Bath, where he formally took possession of his vicariate on 30 May 1844.
[2] Shortly after taking up his residence at Prior Park, Bishop Baggs delivered a remarkable course of lectures on the supremacy of the Pope at the church of St. John the Evangelist, Bath.
[2][6] He became a controversialist when he published two discourses as a young priest in 1836: "On the Supremacy of the Roman Pontiffs", which was delivered at the Church of Gesù e Maria in the Corso, Rome, on 7 February 1836; and the "Letter addressed to the Rev.
[2] He also produced three ecclesiastical works: Baggs preached the funeral oration for his cousin, Gwendoline (died 27 October 1840),[8] widow of Marcantonio Borghese, 5th Prince of Sulmona, in the church of San Carlo ai Catinari on 23 December 1840.