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Show AMiriiiit riiiiii.v.ii. ni:tit.' HiiouMi an election for l'oje take place In the near future Knrdand would hounrcpretentodln the College of Car-ellnals. Car-ellnals. Cardinal Howard, a few dsti ago, followed his brethren Manning and Newman. Unliko tho two litter, ho was not a convert from another fullh, nor waa ho dlatlngi.lihed In church allalrs. However, ho was a truttcd and devoted iirvnut of the Tote and of the church fjr lomotlme lu Itome. Cardinal Howsrd wai liorn In Not-tlngham, Not-tlngham, Kngland, In 1339. Ha wai grandson of the younger brother of ltern aril Kdward 1Mb Duke of Norfolk. In youlh he was an cltlerr ol Her Msjes. ty'sUecond Ufa (lu.irds. At the ae.e of twenty-six he became a priest, and commented lilmnlf entirely to the sirvlee of thu I'oie, He was made archbishop In 16711, and cardinal In ls77. IrilRID ho was given chargo of the Kngllih college In Home. Ho excelled as an Arabic, American and Ituwlan scholar. Ho wai troubled during the pint few years wllh n brain afliotlon, buf the Immediate cause of hla dentil was pneumonia, contracted In Drlghtou, I.nglaud, w hero ho died. |
