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NEWMAN ARRANGES TO MEET FOR A ‘CONCIO’
NEWMAN
(John Henry, 1801-1890, Cardinal & Church Reformer, Catholic Saint)
Autograph Letter Signed with initials to “My dear Lewis”, the Revd. D. Lewis at Jesus College,
saying that he was “magnificent enough to say before you went away, that you had a copia homiliarum. Therefore let me come to you for a concio tomorrow afternoon. Will you give me breakfast on Monday after church?...”, 1 side small 8vo., with the direction on the conjugate blank, Littlemore, Saturday, no date, circa
Newman was a theologian, scholar and poet, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s. He was received into the Catholic Church on 9th October 1845 by Dominic Barberi, an Italian Passionist, at the college in Littlemore, and was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019.
Item Date:
1845
Stock No:
41375
£775
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