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=== Feast day === {{Infobox saint |honorific_prefix = [[Saint]] |name = John Henry Newman |honorific_suffix = [[Oratory of Saint Philip Neri|C.O.]] |birth_date = 21 February 1801 |death_date = 11 August 1890 (aged 89) |feast_day = 9 October |venerated_in = [[Catholic Church]], [[Anglo-Catholicism]], [[Anglicanism]] |image = John Henry Newman by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt.jpg |imagesize = 250px |caption = ''Portrait of Cardinal Newman in [[choir dress]]''<br>by [[John Everett Millais]], 1881 |birth_place = |death_place = |titles = [[Priest]] and [[Confessor]] |beatified_date = 19 September 2010 |beatified_place = |beatified_by = [[Pope Benedict XVI]] |canonized_date = 13 October 2019 |canonized_place = |canonized_by = [[Pope Francis]] |attributes = Cardinal's attire, Oratorian Habit |patronage = [[Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham]] |major_shrine = [[Birmingham Oratory]] |suppressed_date = |issues = }} The general rule among Roman Catholics is to celebrate canonised or beatified persons on the date of their ''dies natalis'', the day on which they died and are considered born into heaven.<ref>Congregation for Divine Worship, ''Universal Norms for the Liturigcal Year and Calendar'' Β§ 56, in Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales trans., ''Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman Calendar'' 11β12, https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/Info/GNLY.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205641/http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/Info/GNLY.pdf |date=6 May 2021 }}.</ref> However, Newman's ''dies natalis'' is 11 August, the same day as the obligatory memorial of [[Saint Clare of Assisi]] in the [[General Roman Calendar]] which would take precedence. Thus, once Newman was beatified, the [[Congregation of the Oratory]] and the [[Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales]] opted to place Newman's optional memorial on 9 October, the date of his conversion to Catholicism.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Saint John Henry Newman Biographical Notes|url=https://www.oratoriosanfilippo.org/san-john-henry-newman/|url-status=live|website=Oratory of Saint Philip Neri|access-date=22 August 2021|archive-date=22 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822215545/https://www.oratoriosanfilippo.org/san-john-henry-newman/}}</ref><ref name="LitWales">{{Cite web|title=National Calendar for Wales|url=http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/National/Wales1.shtml|url-status=live|website=Liturgical Office England & Wales|access-date=16 October 2019|archive-date=18 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118001037/http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/National/Wales1.shtml}}</ref> This date was chosen because "it falls at the beginning of the University year; an area in which Newman had a particular interest".<ref name="LitEngWalesReason">{{Cite web|title=Saint John Henry Newman - National Calendar for England|url=http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/National/Newman.shtml|url-status=live|website=Liturgy Office England & Wales|access-date=16 October 2019|archive-date=16 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016161717/http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/National/Newman.shtml}}</ref> John Henry Newman is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|remembered]] in the [[Church of England]] with a [[Commemoration (observance)|commemoration]] on 11 August.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=8 April 2021|website=The Church of England|language=en|archive-date=9 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309204842/https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|url-status=live}}</ref> He is [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|remembered]] in the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] on 21 February.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Calendar |url=https://prayer.forwardmovement.org:443/the_calendar_response.php?id=400221 |access-date=19 February 2023 |website=prayer.forwardmovement.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=riteseries online: Holy Women, Holy Men :: [John Henry Newman] - February 21 |url=https://www.riteseries.org/brain/hwhm/6/133/ |access-date=19 February 2023 |website=www.riteseries.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints |publisher=Church Publishing Incorporated |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-89869-637-0 |pages=234β235}}</ref>
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