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RARE \"Archbishop of Westminster\" Nicholas Wiseman Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Archbishop of Westminster" Nicholas Wiseman Clipped Signature. 

August 1802 – 15 February 1865) was a Cardinal of the

Catholic Church who became the first Archbishop of of the Catholic

hierarchy in England and

Wales in 1850. Born

in Seville of Irish parents, Wiseman was educated at a school in Waterford

before attending St. Cuthbert's College at Ushaw. From there he went to the English College in

Rome, where he subsequently became Rector. While in Rome, he was assigned to

preach to the English Catholics there. As Rector, he was the representative of

the English bishops. During a visit to England in 1836, he helped found

the Dublin

Review. In 1840, he was appointed president of Oscott College. Wiseman

was born in Seville on 2 February 1802, the younger son of James and

Xaviera Strange Wiseman, of Waterford, Ireland, who had settled in Spain for

business. On his father's death in 1805, he was brought

to his parents' home in Waterford. In 1810, he was sent to Ushaw College, near Durham, where he was educated until the age of sixteen.

Wiseman would later recall that John Lingard, Vice-President of the college at the time,

showed the quiet, retiring boy much kindness. In 1818, Wiseman proceeded to

the English College in Rome,

which had reopened in 1818 after being closed by the Napoleonic Wars for twenty years. He graduated with

a doctorate of theology with

distinction in July 1824, and was ordained to the priesthood 10 March 1825.

He was appointed vice-rector of the English College in

1827, and rector in 1828,

although he was not yet twenty-six years of age. He held this office until

1840. From the first a devoted student and scholar of antiquity, he devoted

much time to the examination of Oriental manuscripts in the Vatican library, and a first volume, entitled Horae

Syriacae, published in 1827, showed promise as a great scholar. Pope Leo XII appointed him curator of the Arabic manuscripts in the Vatican, and professor of Oriental languages in

the Roman University. His academic life was, however, broken by the pope's

command to preach to English residents of Rome. A course of his lectures, On

the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion, attracted much

attention. His general thesis was that whereas scientific teaching had

repeatedly been thought to disprove Christian doctrine, further investigation

has shown that a reconciliation is possible. It is much to Wiseman's credit

that his lectures on the relationship

between religion and science received the stamp of approval

from a critic as stern as Andrew Dickson White. In

his extremely influential A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom,

whose primary contention was the conflict thesis, White wrote that "it is a duty and a

pleasure to state here that one great Christian scholar did honour to religion

and to himself by quietly accepting the claims of science and making the best

of them.... That man was Nicholas Wiseman, better known afterward as Cardinal

Wiseman. The conduct of this pillar of the Roman Church contrasts admirably

with that of timid Protestants, who were filling England with shrieks and

denunciations." 

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