Pacificus Baker was a Franciscan friar.

Baker was the procurator and definitor of his order, and was twice elected provincial of the English province, first in 1761 and secondly in 1770. He appears to have been attached to the Sardinian chapel in Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, UK. It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, "the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in developing London", as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes...

, and he certainly attended at the execution of Lord Lovat

Lord Lovat

Lord Lovat is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1458 for Hugh Fraser. The title descended in a direct line for nine sequential generations until the death of the ninth Lord in 1696. He was succeeded by his great-uncle, the tenth Lord...

, 9 April 1747. His death occurred in London 16 March 1774.

Baker wrote:

• ' The Devout Christian's Companion for Holy Days,' London, 1757, 12mo.
• 'Holy Altar and Sacrifice explained in some familiar dialogues on the Mass,' London, 1768, 12mo, being an abridgment of F. A. Mason's 'Liturgical Discourse on the Mass.'
• 'A Lenten Monitor to Christians, in pious thoughts on the Gospels for every day in Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Tuesday, inclusive,' third edition, London, 1769, 12mo; again London, 1827, 8vo.
• 'The Christian Advent,' 1782.
• 'Sundays kept holy ; in moral reflections on the Gospels for the Sundays from Easter to Advent. Being a supplement to the Christian Advent and Lenten Monitor,' second edition, London, 1772, 12mo.
• 'The Devout Communicant,' London, 1813, 12mo.
• 'Essay on the Cord of St. Francis.'
• 'Scripture Antiquity.'
• 'Meditations on the Lord's Prayer,' from the French.