MIRACULOUS MIRACLES™

Saint — Cardinal Henry Edward Manning

All Saints
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning
July 15, 1808 AD, Copped Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom — January 14, 1892 AD, London
English Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster; Anglican convert and 19th-century Catholic social reformer
Westminster Cathedral, London, England — Catholic Archbishopric of Westminster, United Kingdom
Feast
January 14
Canonized
Not beatified or canonized, and holds no title. Rome has issued no decree of heroic virtue, so he is not Venerable, whatever devotional writing repeats
Life

Henry Edward Manning was born on July 15, 1808 at Copped Hall in Hertfordshire to a Manning Anglican family (father William Manning was Governor of the Bank of England). Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Henry became Anglican priest in 1832.

Henry served as Anglican Archdeacon of Chichester (1840–1851) — becoming one of the leading Anglican churchmen of the Victorian era. Under the influence of the Oxford Movement (the Newman-Pusey Anglo-Catholic revival of the 1830s–1840s), Henry underwent the systematic conversion to Catholicism.

On April 6, 1851 — after the Gorham Judgment of 1850 (the Anglican canonical decision that denied the sacramental efficacy of baptism) — Henry converted to Catholicism. Ordained Catholic priest in 1851, Henry undertook the systematic Catholic ministry.

In 1865, Henry was consecrated Archbishop of Westminster — the principal Catholic archdiocese in England. Created Cardinal in 1875, Henry served as Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster for 27 years (1865–1892).

Cardinal Manning became famous for his Catholic social-doctrine engagement — intervening in the London Dock Strike of 1889 as personal mediator between the strikers and the dock companies, producing the settlement that established the Catholic support for the British labor-union movement. Manning personally collaborated with Pope Leo XIII on the Rerum Novarum (1891) — the principal encyclical of Catholic social doctrine.

Manning became famous for his Catholic educational engagement — establishing multiple Catholic schools for the Irish immigrant working-class community of London.

He died at London on January 14, 1892.

Miracles & Phenomena

  • The Rerum Novarum collaboration

    Cardinal Henry Edward Manning's personal collaboration with Pope Leo XIII on the Rerum Novarum encyclical (1891) — the principal encyclical of Catholic social doctrine — established the 19th-century Catholic social-doctrine tradition. The Rerum Novarum-tradition underpinned the 130+ years of Catholic social doctrine.

  • The London Dock Strike mediation (1889)

    Manning's personal mediation of the London Dock Strike of 1889 — producing the settlement that established the Catholic support for the British labor-union movement — established the 19th-century English Catholic social-labor engagement tradition.

Relics
  • Body
    Relics of Cardinal Henry Edward Manning
    Westminster Cathedral, London, England — Catholic Archbishopric of Westminster

    His relics rest at the Westminster Cathedral in London.

Iconography
  • Manning mediating the London Dock Strike

    The late-19th-century English Cardinal Archbishop in cardinal-red vestments mediating the London Dock Strike of 1889 — the iconography of Catholic 19th-century English Catholic social-labor engagement tradition.

Patronages
Archdiocese of Westminster (Catholic)Catholic Oxford Movement conversion traditionCatholic Catholic social-doctrine tradition (personal collaboration with Pope Leo XIII on the Rerum Novarum)
All SaintsBack to Home