19C English Polychrome Bronze Bookend Monument

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19C English Polychrome Bronze Bookend Monument:
$500.00

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x 5\" W
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JohnHenry Newman

JohnHenry Newman
(21 February1801 - 11August 1890)Newman was anAnglicanpriest, poetand theologian
and later aCatholiccardinal,
whowas animportant andcontroversialfigure
in thereligioushistory ofEngland in the19th century.
He was knownnationally bythe mid-1830s...

Newman thenbecame drawnto becameknown as aleader of, andan ablepolemicistfor theOxfordMovement,an influentialandcontroversialgrouping ofAnglicans
whowished toreturn to theChurch ofEngland...ManyCatholicbeliefsand liturgicalrituals surfaced
before theEnglishReformation.
In this themovement hadsome success.
However, in1845 Newman,joined by some
but not all ofhis followers,left theChurch ofEngland
andhis teachingpost at OxfordUniversity
andwas receivedinto theCatholicChurch...He wasquicklyordained as apriest
andcontinued asan influentialreligiousleader,
basedin Birmingham...In 1879, hewas created acardinalbyPopeLeo XIII
inrecognition ofhis servicesto the cause
of theCatholicChurch inEngland...Hewasinstrumentalin thefounding
oftheCatholicUniversity ofIreland
whichevolved intoUniversityCollege Dublin,
today thelargestuniversity inIreland...

on19 September2010
duringhisvisitto the United Kingdom...Hiscanonisationisdependent
onthedocumentationof additionalmiracles
attributed tohisintercession...

Newmanwas also aliteraryfigure ofnote: Hismajor writingsincluding
theTractsfor the Times(1833 - 1841),
hisautobiographyApologiaPro Vita Sua(1865 - 1866),theGrammarof Assent(1870),
and the poemTheDream ofGerontius(1865),
whichwassetto musicin1900 byEdwardElgar.
Hewrote thepopular hymns\"Lead,Kindly Light\"
and \"Praise tothe Holiest inthe Height\"
(taken fromGerontius)...

Lead,Kindly Light

Lead,Kindly Lightisahymnwithwords writtenin 1833 byJohnHenry Newmanasa poem titled\"the Pillar ofCloud\". Insome hymnals,one may find afourthverseaddedbyEdwardH BickerstethJr, Bishop ofExeter. Itis usuallysung to thetuneLuxBenigna,composed byJohnBacchus Dykesin1865, toAlbertabyWilliamH Harris,or as a choralanthem a setting,Luxin Tenebris, whichIanBradleypraisesas a \"muchmore sensitiveand honestsetting ofNewman\'sambiguity andexpressions ofdoubt\" style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Asa youngpriest, Newmanbecame sickwhile inItalyandwas unable totravel foralmost threeweeks. In hisown words:

Beforestarting frommy inn, I satdown on my bedand began tosob bitterly.My servant,who had actedas my nurse,asked whatailed me. Icould onlyanswer, \"Ihave a work todo inEngland.\"I was achingto get home,yet for wantof a vessel Iwas kept atPalermoforthree weeks. Ibegan to visitthe churches,and theycalmed myimpatience,though I didnot attend anyservices. Atlast I got offin an orangeboat, boundforMarseilles.We werebecalmed forwhole week intheStraitsof Bonifacio,and it wasthere that Iwrote thelines,Lead,Kindly Light,which havesince becomeso well known.

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