When John Henry Newman died in 1890, he left instructions that he should be buried with another priest, his friend Ambrose St John, and he also made it clear that he wished his body to decay.
However, in 2008 the Catholic Church opened the grave, hoping to find bones which could be venerated. But there were no human remains. His physical being is gone for good, but his writings are still important.
Two new books have appeared in the run-up to the Pope’s visit next month to Birmingham to beatify him ”” John Cornwell’s Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint (Continuum, £18.99 ) and Anthony Mockler’s John Henry Newman: Fighter, Convert and Cardinal (Signal Books, £9.99).
Both the authors are Catholics, but Mockler ”” owner of Milton Manor, near Abingdon ”” is quite orthodox, whereas Cornwell is a former trainee priest who has written critical biographies of two modern popes.
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Merryn Williams (Oxford Times)–Two lives of John Henry Newman
When John Henry Newman died in 1890, he left instructions that he should be buried with another priest, his friend Ambrose St John, and he also made it clear that he wished his body to decay.
However, in 2008 the Catholic Church opened the grave, hoping to find bones which could be venerated. But there were no human remains. His physical being is gone for good, but his writings are still important.
Two new books have appeared in the run-up to the Pope’s visit next month to Birmingham to beatify him ”” John Cornwell’s Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint (Continuum, £18.99 ) and Anthony Mockler’s John Henry Newman: Fighter, Convert and Cardinal (Signal Books, £9.99).
Both the authors are Catholics, but Mockler ”” owner of Milton Manor, near Abingdon ”” is quite orthodox, whereas Cornwell is a former trainee priest who has written critical biographies of two modern popes.
Read it all.