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Article: Pilgrim Journey: John Henry Newman 1801-1845.
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- October 25, 2002
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Pilgrim Journey: John Henry Newman 1801-1845 Vincent Ferrer Blehl, S.J. Paulist, $24.95, 452 pp.
The story of John Henry Newman's intellectual and spiritual development from his childhood until his conversion in 1845 has been told many times, most famously by Newman himself in Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Vincent Ferrer Blehl, who died last November, is one of the most famous names in Newman scholarship. He was the postulator for Newman's cause in Rome, and Newman was declared a fit subject for canonization in 1991.
Newman was a meticulous keeper of his own papers, a disciplined diarist, a prodigious publisher, and indefatigable letter writer. The facts of ...