† The word of God was made flesh
S O C I E T A S
D O C T R I N Æ
CHRISTIANÆ
A holy man in search of the truth
Family background
• Born 21 February
1801
• City of London
• Father (John) banker
• Mother (Jemima)
• Eldest of six
children
Education
Sent to Private school – age 7
Excelled in academic studies,
acted in Latin plays, played the
violin, wrote articles and
speeches
Later entered Trinity
College, then Oriel,
Oxford University
ORIEL COLLEGE
Young John
Family crisis in 1816 – Financial
collapse
Fell ill in August 1816
- ‘a providential illness’
Became more ‘evangelist’ – strong
ideas against the Catholic Church
and the Pope.
Anglican Priest
Ordained an Anglican Priest on
Trinity Sunday, 13 June 1824
Became curate of St Clement’s
Oxford for two years
Became tutor at Oriel college in
1826
Went through another serious
illness in 1827 – due to more
family troubles and overwork.
Long vacation: started to read
works by Fathers of the Church.
Oxford Movement
A group of people in the University
of Oxford - analyzed the link
between the Church of England,
the Apostles and to the catholic
doctrines of the early Church
Fathers. Born 14th July 1833
following a sermon by Keble.
Newman and friends began issuing
the "Tracts for the Times ".
Very successful ... but ... when
"Tract 90" appeared … Newman
was denounced as a ‘traitor’.
KEBLE
TRACTS
Mediterranean Travels
In December 1832 JHN went with Hurrell
Froude for a tour in South Europe. On board
the mail steamship Hermes they visited
Gibraltar Malta and the Ionian Islands and later
Sicily, Naples and Rome.
Travels
In a letter home he described
Rome as "the most wonderful
place on earth," but the Roman
Catholic religion as
"polytheistic, degrading and
idolatrous."
Once more in Sicily, Newman
fell dangerously ill (his third
providential illness)
Returned to England when
recovered in June 1833
Conversion
In 1842 he withdrew to
Littlemore, and lived under
monastic conditions.
LITTLEMORE
In September he preached his last
Anglican sermon at Littlemore.
DOMINIC
BARBERI
After two years - received into
the Roman Catholic Church
(9 October 1845) by Blessed
Dominic Barberi, an Italian
Passionist Priest, at the
College in Littlemore.
A Catholic priest
October 1846:
Ordained
priest in
Rome
In 1854, Newman went to Dublin
as rector of the newly-established
Catholic University of Ireland
Newman the writer
SELECTED WRITINGS
Apologia pro Vita Sua
- One of the best known spiritual
autobiographies.
The Idea of a University
Hymns
Sermons
Tracts of the Times
Honoured by the church
CARDINAL
NEWMAN
12 May 1879:
made cardinal by
Pope Leo XIII
POPE
LEO XIII
His device/emblem as
cardinal, taken from St
Francis de Sales, was Cor
ad cor loquitur (Heart
speaketh to heart)
Later Years
Took up residence at
Birmingham Oratory.
BIRMINGHAM
ORATORY
Died 11 August 1890.
Buried in Rednall Hill,
Birmingham
EPITAPH
Ex umbris et
imaginibus in veritatem
"Out of shadows and
images into the truth"
REDNALL
HILL
About J H Newman
CARDINAL
MANNING
POPE
JOHN PAUL II
“We have lost our greatest witness
for the Faith, and we are all poorer
and lower by the loss.”
Cardinal Manning
at Requiem mass.
“One of the most distinguished
and versatile champions of
English spirituality.”
Pope John Paul II
Road to Canonisation
The process started in January 1991
Jack Sullivan, a 69-year old
Permanent Deacon from
Massachusetts, USA, was
suffering from an extremely
serious spinal disorder.
He prayed through the
intercession of Cardinal
Newman.
Beatification
Deacon Sullivan was healed
of his spinal disorder on 15
August 2001.
Pope Benedict approved
miracle on 3 July 2009.
Beatified
Birmingham
Sunday 19th Sept 2010
Prayer
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has
committed some work to me which He has not committed
to another.
I have my mission - I may never know it in this life, but I shall
be told it in the next.
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.
He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do
His work;
I shall be a preacher of Truth in my own place, while not
intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve
Him in my calling.
Therefore, my God, I will put myself without reserve into your
hands.
Cardinal Newman
† The word of God was made flesh
S O C I E T A S
D O C T R I N Æ
CHRISTIANÆ