Without
hesitation, the Sovereign Pontiff relaxed the rule of Roman
residence, and Newman became a Cardinal.
He lived to enjoy his glory for more than ten years. Since he
rarely left the Oratory, and since Manning never visited
Birmingham, the two Cardinals met only once or twice. After one
of these occasions, on returning to the Oratory, Cardinal Newman
said, 'What do you think Cardinal Manning did to me? He kissed
me!'
On Newman's death, Manning delivered a funeral oration, which
opened thus:
'We have lost our greatest witness for the Faith, and we are all
poorer and lower by the loss.
'When these tidings came to me, my first thought was this, in
what way can I, once more, show my love and veneration for my
brother and friend of more than sixty years?'
In private, however, the surviving Cardinal's tone was apt to be
more... direct. 'Poor Newman!' he once exclaimed in a moment of
genial expansion. 'Poor Newman! He was a great hater!'
X
IN that gaunt and gloomy building-- more like a barracks than an
Episcopal palace-- Archbishop's House, Westminster, Manning's
existence stretched itself out into an extreme old age. As his
years increased, his activities, if that were possible, increased
too. Meetings, missions, lectures, sermons, articles, interviews,
letters-- such things came upon him in redoubled multitudes, and
were dispatched with an unrelenting zeal.
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