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Born: 1801
Death: 1890
Born in London, England
After 1833, Newman was a prominent member of the Oxford Movement, which emphasized the Church's debt to the Church Fathers and challenged any tendency to consider truth as completely subjective.
He was asked to research the fallen nature of the Catholic Church; however, upon his research he began to suspect that the Church was actually in closest continuity with the Church that Jesus established. When realizing this he chose to come into full communion as a Catholic. Two years later he was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome and joined the Congregation of the Oratory. When Newman was named a cardinal in 1879, he took as his motto "Cor ad cor loquitur" (Heart speaks to heart).
He was a prolific write with over 40 books and thousands of letters.
One quote I discovered while researching this man can be followed by all of us in life:
"I have a mission; I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons; He has not created me for naught."
St. John Henry Newman, pray for us!
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