CAADINAL MANNING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2306, 16 January 1892, Page 4

CAADINAL MANNING.

London, Jan. 12. Cardinal Manning has been sufferin'* from a severe attack of bronchitis. Jan. 14. Cardinal Manning died at 8 o’clock this morning. [His Eminence Henry Edward, Cardinal Priest of the Holy Roman Church and Archbishop of Westminister, son of the late William Manning, Esq., M.P.,merchant, of London, born at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, July 15, 1808, was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in firstclass honours -in 1830, and became Fellow of Merton College. He was for some time one of the select preachers in the University of Oxford, was appointed Rector of Lavington and Graffham,Sussex, 1834, and Archdeacon of Chichester in 1840. These preferments he resigned in 1851 on joining the Roman Catholic Church, in which he entered the priesthood, and in 1857 founded an ecclesiastical congregation at Bayswater, entitled the Oblates of St. Charles Borromeo. The degree of D.D., was conferred upon him at Rome, and the office of Provost of the Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, Protonotary Apostolic, and Domestic Prelate to the Pope. After the (death of his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, Monsignor Manning was consecrated Archbishop of Westminster, June 8,1865. Pope Pius IX. created him a Cardinal Priest, March 15,1875, the title assigned to him being that of S.S, Andrew and Gregory on the Ccelian Hill. The same Pontiff invested him with the Cardinal’s Hat in a consistory held at the Vatican, Dec. 31,1877. Dr Manning wrote four volumes of sermons and other works before 1850, and subsequently contributed largely to Divinity literature. Cardinal Manning was well-known, not only for his work as a Roman Catholic Prelate and Divine, but also for his exertions in the cause of temperance and other modes of social reform.]