This man, a Cardinal for the Church, a convert from High Church Anglican was:
1. He mastered classical studies in Oxford
2. While as Curate as an Anglican Priest, he married the third daughter of the rector and actual Curate that Manning filled in for when Rector Reverend John Sargent fell ill and soon died, Henry married Caroline Sargent, whom died in July 1837, so he was a widower.
3. His wife helped him get ready to enter into the Catholic Church, it says, " In November of the same year he married Caroline Sargent, the third daughter of his predecessor in the incumbency. His marriage may be said to have had some part, however indirectly, in leading him into the
Catholic Church, for it brought him into a
family circle that was destined to be strongly affected by the rising Romeward movement."
Catholic Encyclopedia Henry Edward Manning4.
Zealous For Souls: " In his country
parish at Lavington, though Henry Manning had not yet attained to the fullness of the Faith, nor as yet …
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