Cardinal John Henry Newman

University College Dublin Founder, Cardinal John Henry Newman is to be canonised on October 13th, 2019 following approval from Pope Francis.

Born in London in 1801, Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845 and moved to Dublin in 1854 to set up the new university. He also lectured at the Rotunda for a time. After leaving his position as Rector at the university, he published these and a series of other lectures titled The Idea of a University.

Newman was proclaimed venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1991. Two miracles necessary for his canonisation have been approved by the Vatican. The first concerned a man who claimed to have been cured of near-total paralysis after praying to Newman in 2001. The second, approved in November 2018, attributed to Newman the healing of a pregnant woman with a life-threatening condition.

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