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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Cardinal Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892)

Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal. A distinguished English Roman Catholic prelate and religious writer; born at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, July 15, 1808; died on Jan. 14, 1892. Originally a clergyman of the Church of England, in which he rose to be archdeacon of Chichester (1840), he became a Roman Catholic priest in 1851; archbishop of Westminster in 1865; cardinal in 1875. He founded the Roman Catholic University of Kensington in 1874. He was a friend of the laboring classes: He wrote: ‘Unity of the Church’ (1842); ‘Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost’ (3d ed. 1877); ‘The Catholic Church and Modern Society’ (1880); ‘The Eternal Priesthood’ (1883); ‘Religio Viatoris’ (A Traveler’s Religion: 3d ed. 1888); etc.