Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint (70 page)
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Authors: John Cornwell
Tags: #Biographies & Memoirs, #Leaders & Notable People, #Religious, #Catholicism
Newman among his confreres at the Birmingham Oratory. Reproduced by kind permission of the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory.
Cardinal Newman by John Everett Millais.
Reproduced by kind permission of the National Portrait Gallery.
Cardinal Newman in old age.
Ambrose and John Henry.
Both photographs above reproduced by kind permission of the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory.
Newman’s Catholic University, Dublin.
Newman’s MS correspondence.
Newman on receiving the ‘red hat’ in Rome, 1879, with Father William Neville at his right shoulder.
Reproduced by kind permission of the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory.
MS of ‘Lead Kindly Light’.
Portrait of John Henry and Ambrose at Propaganda College by Maria Giberne.
Ambrose St John in old age.
Both photographs above reproduced by kind permission of the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Who is John Henry Newman?
12: Tribulations, heresy and the faithful 138
Chapter 17: Death of Ambrose St John
Notes to the Chapters (and the Abbreviations used)
I write – I write again – I write a third time, in the course of six months – then I take the third
‘I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true’, Newman wrote when he was sixty-three years of age. ‘M
An Oriel fellowship had acquired extraordinary status in the early decades of the nineteenth century
‘much of that mischievous fanaticism’ that ‘at present abounds from the vanity of men, who think tha
collection by Newman clearly allude to his friendship with Hurrell Froude who had died before public
. As Ward put it, ‘in subscribing the [39] articles I renounce no one Roman doctrine’.
But he declares that anything beyond this distracts and terrifies his mind, because he is ‘subject t
feel his loss to this day. But the Father’s bereavement is of a special kind, and his sorrow is ever