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A Useful Life Ended

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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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London, Aug. 13.- Cardinal Newman died of pneumonía Monday at Birmingham. He was taken ill on Saturday, the attack beginnin with a severe chili. He passed into a comatose condition on Sunday and remained unconscious until he died. The last rites of the churoh were administered to him Monday morninpr, and during his illness prayers have been offered for him at all the churches. [John Henry Newman was bom in London in 1801. He entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1816, and was elected a lellow of Oriel College in 1822. At Oriel College he formed a friendship with John Keble, the poet, and with Dr. Tohately. He was ordained a priest in 1824, and became a principal of Alban Hall in 1825 and a tutor of Oriel College in 1826. In 18S8 he was appointed vicar of St. Mary's Oxford, and of Littlemore. In 1833, Newman, Keble and Pusey initiated the "Oxfork movement" in favor of high church doctrines, which they advocated in a series of '■Tracts for the Times." He manilested a growing tendency to Roman Catholicism in his "Aryans of the Fourth Century; Their Doctrines. Temper and Conduct" (1833), his "Tract No. 90" (1841), and his "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine." He became a member of the Roman Catholic church in 1845, and was the principal of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, at Btrmingham, from 1848 to 1852. He defended or explained his religious course In a work entitled "Apología pro Vita Sua" (1864). He published a collection of poems (1868), "The Grammar of Assent" (1870) and "A letter addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk on tüe Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulaüon" (1875). He was made a Cardinal Deacon in 1879.1

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