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Cardinal Manning and his Influence on the Church and Nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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There is a legend, popularised by Lytton Strachey, that Henry Manning, on becoming a Catholic, studiously resolved to expunge from his mind all memories of his Anglican past. The letters of his young wife, Caroline, who had died only four years after their marriage, were to be destroyed; her grave to be left untended; all past associations of Lavington, Oxford, Harrow, Coombe Bank, and Copped Hall at Totteridge would be too much of a burden for him to bear on his journey to a position of active influence within the Roman Church; so, like Christian in the Pilgrim’s Progress, he willed that the burden should roll from his back that he should see it no more. The truth is very different. Caroline’s letters he took with him to Rome in 1851, where he was to begin his studies at the Accademia Ecclesiastica, only to discover to his profound grief, that the bag in which they were contained, had been stolen at Avignon. So devoted to her memory was he, that—on his deathbed— he amazed his successor in the See of Westminster, Herbert Vaughan, by extracting from beneath his pillow a ‘small, worn volume’, and handing it to him, saying ‘I leave it to you. Into this little book my dearest wife wrote her prayers and meditations. Not a day has passed since her death on which I have not prayed and meditated from this book. All the good I may have done, all the good I may have been, I owe to her. Take precious care of it’.
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This paper is a lecture delivered for the Manning Centenary at Kemp Hall, Totteridge, 14 January, 1992.
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