Presentation Of The Jubilee Personal Testimonial To Cardinal Manning

Presentation of the Jubilee Personal Testimonial to Cardinal Manning, 1890. 'The Most Rev. (Roman Catholic) Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Dr. Henry Edward Manning, who..has been forty-nine years a priest of that Church, was presented with a personal testimonial to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his consecration to the Archbishopric. The gift took the form of an album, beautifully illuminated, and a cheque for £7500; but Cardinal Manning has directed the money to be bestowed in founding a scholarship for the education of a priest in his diocese; in contributing to the repair and ornament of the ancient church of St. Gregory at Rome; in paying off the building debt of two schools and a mission-house in London; in providing a bed in the accident ward of the London Hospital; and the residue to be given to St. Edmund's College at Canterbury. The centre mount of the album, handsomely bound in red Morocco [leather] ...is in the form of a cross, upon which are enamelled the armorial bearings and insignia of the Cardinal, set with four crystals. The first page is richly illuminated with allegorical and conventional designs; on each page are photographs of pictures by the Old Masters, appropriate to events in the life of his Eminence'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890. Creator: P Naumann. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)