The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-15
TWO GREAT CARDINALS DEAD.
Manning and Simeoni Died of
Influenza.
A Sketch of the Career of Cardinal Man.
ming, tho Primate of the Catholic
Church In England -Simeoni. the Head
of the Propaganda mt Rome.

LONDON, Jan. 14.-[Speciall Cardinal
Manning died at $50 o'clock this morn
ing.
The cardinal continued to grow
weaker and weaker during the night
until finally his prostration became
complete. He was ablo, however, to
join in the prayers which were being
offered at his bedside.
His eminonce continued these suppli-
cations for divine mercy until uncon-
scious. His death was calm and he
passed away evidently without pain
kilograms of regret from all parts OF
tho world are being received.
STRETCH OF THE CARDINAL.
Henry Edward Manning, ~ cardinal of
tho Catholic Church, was born july 10,
lsOS, at Totteridge, in Hertfords
anu was educated at Harrow and Balliol
Colleges. While at Oxford he was re-
-harhaoie Us an eloquent preacher and
as leader of the Tractaria parsv.
In 1884 no obtained q country rectorv
and in 1910 became archdeacon OF Chi
chester. In 1851, however, Manning
left the Church of England and Joined
the Church of Rome. He was made
priest i'll 1857. For q time superior of a
monastic house, he was in 1865 ap-
pointed Catholic archbishop OF Vest
minister.
DIR. Manning became Archbishop of
westminster in June, 1865. Manning
was in the full flush of his newborn
enthusiasm, and this he communicated
to the whole Catholic body in Eng
land. His departure from Protest
antism had not alienated him from
his old intellectual connec-
tons. He was still received, adj
mired and respected by that brill
liant circle of liberal statesmen and
literary men, many of whom had been
his contemporaries at Oxford, the most
conspicuous OF whom was Gladstone.
and among whom were Sidney Herbert,
tho late Duke of Newcastle. Sir George
Cornewall Lewis and Roundell Palmer.
These, while deploring his stop, were
still proud OF him as one OF tho most
learned and high minded of Englishmen.
lie succeeded in making himself per-
sonally popular by taking an interest in
all charitable and social Improvement
projects. lilo did not shrink from an
pearing on public platforms with
ohurchmen like Bishop Wilberforce and
dissenters like Newman Hall and MIR.
Spurgeon, to advocate some benevolent
or sanitary object, and herein lay, in a
large degree, the secret of what may be
called his extra ecclesiastical influence.
Meanwhile. at his splendid pro-
cathedral at Westminster he was stir
ring up the religious zeal of the Catholic
faithful, and delivering fervid sermons,
organizing chapels and missions, and
directing the work OF tho subordinate
Catholic prelates throughout England.
At the Ecumcnical council OF 1870
Manning was one of the most Jealous
supporters and promoters OF infalllbil-
ity dogma. and named cardinal in 1875.
hut has continued an influential leader
OF tho ultra-montain section of the
church. Besides being the leading
spirit in most Catholic movements in
England, he has taken part in MANY
non-sectarian good works, and has done
much to improve the condition OF tho
poor Irish in London. Before his seces-
sion to Rome, Manning published sew
eral volumes of powerful sermons. Since
then, his publications have been
mainly polemical. Amongst his nu-
merous volumes, pamphlets and articles
are discussions Of the temporal power
OF the Pope, infallibility, the Vatican,
council and ultramontainism.