THE LATE CARDINAL MANNING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 5, 30 January 1892, Page 108

THE LATE CARDINAL MANNING.

a IS EMINENCE HENRY EDWARD MAN■J NING, Cardinal Priest of the Roman 3 Church and Archbishop of Westminster, J was the son of the late William Manning, Esq., MP., merchant, of London, born at S Totterbridge, Hertfordshire, July 15, 1808, * and was educated at Harrow and Balliol

College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in first-class 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 Gratfham, Sussex, 1834, and Archdeacon of Chichester in 1840. These perferments he resigned in 1851 on joining the Roman Catholic Church, in which he entered the priesthood, and in 1857 he 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 bein<? that of SS. Andrew and Gregory on the Ccelian Hill. The same Pontiff in-

vested him with a Cardinal’s_Hat in a consistory held at the Vatican, December 31, 1877. Dr. Manning wrote four volumes of sermons and other works before 1850 : since that date ‘ The Grounds of Faith,' 1852 ; ‘ Temporal Sovereignty of the Popes,’ three lectures, 1860 ; ‘ The Last Glories of the Holy See Greater than the First,’ three lectures, 1861 ; ’The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, four lectures, 1861 ; ‘The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ,’ 2nd edit., 1862: ‘Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects, with an Introduction on the Relations of England'to Christianity,’ 1863: ‘The Crown in Council on the “Essays and Reviews:” a Letter to an Anglican Friend,' 1864; ‘ The Convocation and: the Crown in Council, a Second Letter to an Anglican Friend,’ 1864 ; ‘ The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost : or Reason and Revelation,’ 1865 : ‘ The Reunion of Christendom : a Pastoral Letter to the Clergy, 1866 : ‘ The Temporal Power of the Pope in its Political Aspect,’ 1866 ; ‘ The Centenary of St. Peter and the General Council,’ 1867: ‘ England and Christendom,’ 1867 : ‘ Ireland : a Letter to Earl Grey,' 1868; ‘The <Ecumenical Council and the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff; a Pastoral Letter to the Clergy,’ 1863 ; ‘ The Vatican Council and its Definitions : a Pastoral Letter,' 1870 ; ‘ Petri Privilegium : Three Pastoral Letters to the Clergy of the Diocese of Westminster,' 1871 ; ‘ The Four Great Evils of the Day,’ 2nd edit., 1871; ‘ The Fourfold Sovereignty of God,' 1871; ‘ The Damon of Socrates,’ 1872; ‘ Cresarism and Ultramontanism,’ 1874; ‘ The Internal Mission of the Holy Ghost,’ 1875 ; ‘ The True Story of the Vatican Council,’ 1877 ; ‘ The Catholic Church and Modern Society,’ 1880; and ‘ The Eternal Priesthood,' 1885 ; besides numerous sermons and pamphlets. 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. The celebration of the Cardinal’s episcopal jubilee took place on Sunday, June 8, 1890. A year and seven months later, on the 14th of January, 1892, and a few hours before the Duke of Clarence, Cardinal Manning died.