Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Newman ('Men of the Day. No. 145. "Tracts for the times."') NPG D43780

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

Leading figure in the Oxford Movement with John Keble and Edward Bouverie Pusey. He converted to Catholicism, and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1847. Newman's autobiography Apologia pro vita sua (1864) is a classic example of the spiritual autobiography, an account of personal faith and spiritual development. Written in defence of his controversial conversion to Catholicism, the Apologia appeared in seven weekly pamphlets. Newman, who became a Cardinal in 1879, hoped his autobiography would convince the protestant public that his conversion... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.