The Upstairs Room
Mary Frances Coady September 20, 2010 - 10:59am
In late October 1866, a young student and poet named Gerard Manley Hopkins boarded a train in Oxford and took the sixty-mile journey north to the industrial city of Birmingham. There he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by John Henry Newman.
By that time Newman had a saintly reputation. Once a renowned Anglican preacher and don at Oxford, he had gone on to become a Catholic priest and later founded the oratories of St. Philip Neri in London and Birmingham.
In the mid...
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