In 1823 was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel. In 1824 took Anglican orders and became curate of St. Clements, Oxford. In 1828 was appointed vicar of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, with the outlying chaplaincy of Littlemore. In 1832 finished _History of the Arians_ and went abroad. Made acquaintance with Dr. Wiseman in Rome; seized with fever in Sicily, but said, "I shall not die--I have a work to do in England"; returning homewards in an orange-boat bound for Marseilles, and within sight of Garibaldi's home at Caprera, wrote "Lead, Kindly Light." On July 13, 1833, the Sunday after his return home, the Oxford movement was begun by Keble's sermon on National Apostasy. The issue of _Tracts for the Times_ immediately followed; and in 1843 Mr. Newman published a volume of _Parochial Sermons_, to be followed by _University Sermons_ and _Sermons on Holy Days_. In 1841 the Vice-Chancellor and heads of houses at Oxford censured Mr. Newman's Tract XC. In 1843 he resigned St. Mary's. On October 9, 1845, was received into the Catholic Church at Littlemore by Father Dominic. On November 1, 1845, was confirmed at Oscott by Cardinal Wiseman. On October 28, 1846, arrived in Rome, and, after a short period of study, was ordained priest. On Christmas Eve, 1847, he returned to England from Rome, to found the community of St. Philip de Neri. In January, 1849, part of the Oratorian Community settled in Birmingham. In 1849 took up temporary residence at Bilston, to nurse the poor during a visitation of cholera. In April, 1849, founded the London Oratory, with Father Faber as rector. On June 21, 1852, the case of Achilli against Dr. Newman came on for trial before Lord Campbell, and, after several days' duration, resulted in a verdict of "guilty," Dr. Newman being unjustly sentenced to a fine and mulcted in enormous costs. The Rev. John Joseph Gordon, to whom "The Dream of Gerontius" is dedicated, was of great assistance to Newman at this time. In 1854 went to Dublin as rector of the newly founded Irish Catholic University, but resigned that post in 1858, and subsequently established a boys' school at Birmingham. In 1864 Charles Kingsley made charges of untruthfulness against the Catholic clergy, which led to the writing of the _Apologia Pro Vita Sua_. In December, 1877, was elected an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. In 1865 he printed "The Dream of Gerontius." In 1879 created Cardinal Deacon of the Holy Roman Church by Leo XIII. On Monday, August 11, 1890, died at the Oratory, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS ß1 GERONTIUS[11]