Editing Nicholas Wiseman

{{Short description|English Catholic cardinal (1802–1865)}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = cardinal
| honorific-prefix = [[His Eminence]]
| name = Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman
| honorific-suffix = 
| title = [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]], [[Archbishop of Westminster]]
| image = Nicholas Wiseman NPG.jpg
| caption = Photograph by Herbert Watkins, {{circa|1860s}}
| province = [[Province of Westminster|Westminster]]
| diocese = [[Catholic Diocese of Westminster|Westminster]]
| appointed = 29 August 1847 (Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic)
| term_start = 29 September 1850
| term_end = 15 February 1865
| predecessor = [[Thomas Walsh (vicar apostolic)|Thomas Walsh]] <small>(as Vicar Apostolic)</small>
| successor = [[Henry Edward Manning]]
| other_post = [[Santa Pudenziana|Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana]]
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| ordination = 19 March 1825
| consecration = 8 June 1840
| consecrated_by = [[Giacomo Filippo Fransoni]]
| cardinal = 30 September 1850
| created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Pius IX|Pius IX]]
| rank = Cardinal-Priest
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| birth_name = Nicolás Patricio Esteban Wiseman<ref>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bwiseman|Nicholas Patrick Stephen (Nicolás Patricio Esteban) Cardinal Wiseman|21 January 2015}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1802|08|03}}<ref name=fothergill>{{harvnb|Fothergill|2013}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Seville]], [[History of Spain (1808–1874)|Spain]]
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| death_place = York Place, [[Portman Square]], London, England
| buried = [[Westminster Cathedral]]
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| parents = James Wiseman and Xaviera Wiseman (née Strange)
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'''Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman'''<ref name=loc>{{harvnb|Anon|2019}}</ref> (3 August 1802 – 15 February 1865) was an [[Catholic Church in England and Wales|English Roman Catholic]] prelate who served as the first [[Archbishop of Westminster]] upon the [[Universalis Ecclesiae|re-establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy]] in [[Catholic Church in England and Wales|England and Wales]] in 1850.<ref>{{harvnb|Miranda|2009}}</ref> He was made a [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] in 1850.

Born in Seville to Irish parents, Wiseman was educated at a school in Waterford before attending St. Cuthbert's College at [[Ushaw College|Ushaw]]. From there he went to the [[English College, Rome|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 initiate the periodical ''[[Dublin Review (Catholic periodical)|Dublin Review]]''. In 1840, he was appointed president of [[St Mary's College, Oscott|Oscott College]].

==Early life==
[[File:Casa fabiola 2017001.jpg|thumb|Birthplace of Cardinal Wiseman, 5 Calle Fabiola, Seville, Spain.]]
Wiseman was born in [[Seville]] on 2 February 1802, the younger son of merchant James Wiseman and his second wife, Xaviera (née Strange), of [[Waterford, Ireland]], who had settled in Spain for business.<ref>{{cite ODNB | url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-29791 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/29791 | title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | date=2004 }}</ref><ref name="cathen">{{harvnb|Hunter-Blair|1912}}</ref> 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, England|Durham]], where he was educated until the age of sixteen.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}} 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 [[Doctor of Theology|doctorate of theology]] with distinction in July 1824, and was [[Holy Orders|ordained]] to the priesthood 10 March 1825.<ref name=fothergill/>

He was appointed [[vice-rector]] of the English College in 1827, and [[Rector (academia)|rector]] in 1828, although he was not yet twenty-six years of age. He had 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 that he had promise as a good scholar.<ref name=cathen/>{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}

[[Pope Leo XII]] (r. 1823–1829) appointed him [[curator]] of the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] manuscripts in the Vatican, and professor of [[Oriental languages]] in the Roman University. His academic life was, however, interrupted 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 reconciliation is possible.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}} It is much to Wiseman's credit that his lectures on the [[relationship between religion and science]] were approved by a critic as stern as [[Andrew Dickson White]]. In his extremely influential ''[[A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom]]'', the primary contention of which 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 Church contrasts admirably with that of timid Protestants, who were filling England with shrieks and denunciations".<ref>{{harvnb|White|1896|pp=223–224}}</ref>

==England==
Wiseman visited England during 1835–1836 and delivered lectures on the principles and main doctrines of Catholicism in the [[Sardinian Embassy Chapel|Sardinian Chapel]], [[Lincoln's Inn Fields]], and in the church in [[Moorfields]].<ref>{{harvnb|Watson|Hornby|2013}}</ref>  The effect of his lectures was considerable. At [[Edward Bouverie Pusey]]'s request, [[John Henry Newman]] reviewed them in the periodical ''[[British Critic]]'' during December 1836, treating them for the most part with sympathy as a triumph over popular Protestantism. To another critic, who had claimed a resemblance between Catholic and pagan ceremonies, Wiseman replied admitting the likeness, and saying that it could be shown equally well to exist between Christian and non-Christian doctrines.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}

In 1836, Wiseman initiated the periodical ''[[Dublin Review (Catholic periodical)|Dublin Review]]'', partly to give English Catholics greater ideals for their religion and enthusiasm for the papacy, and partly to deal with the [[Oxford Movement]]. In 1916 the name was changed to the ''Wiseman Review''.<ref name=Morrin>{{harvnb|Morrin|2015}}</ref> At this date he was already distinguished as a scholar and critic, fluent in many languages, and informed on questions of scientific, artistic or historical interest.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}

An article by Wiseman on the [[Donatism|Donatist]] [[Schism (religion)|schism]], appearing in the ''Dublin Review'' in July 1839, made an impression in [[university of Oxford|Oxford]], Newman and others seeing the analogy between Donatists and Anglicans. Wiseman, preaching at the opening of [[St Mary's Church, Derby|St Mary's Church]], Derby, in the same year, anticipated Newman's argument on [[Development of doctrine|religious development]], published six years later. In 1840, he was consecrated bishop, and was sent to England as coadjutor to Bishop [[Thomas Walsh (UK bishop)|Thomas Walsh]], vicar-apostolic of the Central district, and was also appointed president of [[Oscott College]] near Birmingham.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}

Oscott, during his presidency, became a centre for English Catholics. The Oxford converts (1845 and later) added to Wiseman's responsibilities, as many of them found themselves wholly without means, while the old Catholic body looked on the newcomers with distrust. It was by his advice that Newman and his companions spent some time in Rome before undertaking clerical work in England. Soon after the accession of [[Pope Pius IX]], Bishop Walsh was assigned to be vicar-apostolic of the London district with Wiseman still as his coadjutor. For Wiseman, the appointment became permanent on Walsh's death in February 1849.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}

On his arrival from Rome in 1847, Wiseman acted as an informal diplomatic envoy from the pope, to ascertain from the government what assistance England was likely to give in implementing the liberal policy with which Pius inaugurated his reign. In response, Lord Minto was sent to Rome as "an authentic organ of the British Government", but the policy in question proved abortive. Residing in London in [[Golden Square]], Wiseman threw himself into his new duties with many-sided activities, working especially for the reclamation of Catholic criminals and for the restoration of the lapsed poor to the practice of their religion. He was zealous for the establishment of religious communities, both of men and women, and for performing retreats and missions. He preached on 4 July 1848 at the opening of [[St George's Cathedral, Southwark|St George's, Southwark]], an occasion unique in England since the [[English Reformation|Reformation]], 14 bishops and 240 priests being present, and six religious orders of men being represented.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}

==Cardinal==
[[File:Nicholas Patrick Wiseman.jpg|thumb|192px|Cardinal Wiseman, daguerreotype by [[Mathew Brady]] studio]]
Wiseman found himself opposed by some of his clergy who disliked his [[ultramontane]] ideas of his "Romanizing and innovating zeal", especially in revivals of ritual. In July 1850, Wiseman heard of the pope's intention to create him a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]]. Arriving at Rome, he found that the Pope wanted him to return to England as Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster. The papal brief ''[[Universalis Ecclesiae]]'' was dated 29 September 1850, and Wiseman wrote a pastoral from Rome on 7 October, in which he said "Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished".{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}<ref group=note>From body of pastoral letter.</ref>

Wiseman travelled slowly to England, via [[Vienna]]. When he reached London on 11 November, the whole country was ablaze with indignation at the "papal aggression," which was interpreted to imply a new and unjustifiable claim to territorial rule.<ref>{{harvnb|Diamond|2003|pp=83–87}}</ref> Some indeed feared that his life was endangered by the violence of popular feeling. Wiseman displayed calmness and courage, and immediately penned a pamphlet of over 30 pages titled ''Appeal to the English People'', in which he explained the nature of the pope's action. He argued that the admitted principle of toleration included leave to establish a diocesan hierarchy. In his concluding paragraphs, he effectively contrasted that dominion over Westminster, which he was taunted with claiming, with his duties towards the poor Catholics resident there, with which alone he was really concerned. A course of lectures at St George's, [[Southwark]], further moderated the storm. In July 1852, he presided at [[St Mary's College, Oscott]] over the first provincial [[synod]] of Westminster, at which Newman preached his sermon on the "Second Spring"; and at this date, Wiseman's dream of the rapid conversion of England to the ancient faith seemed capable of realisation. But many difficulties with his own people shortly beset his path, due largely to the suspicions aroused by his evident preference for the ardent Roman zeal of the converts, and especially of Manning, to the dull and cautious formalism of the old Catholics.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}

During the autumn of 1853, Wiseman went to Rome, where Pius IX gave full approval to his ecclesiastical policy. It was during this visit to Rome that Wiseman projected, and began to write, the most popular book that he ever wrote, the historical romance, ''[[Fabiola (novel)|Fabiola]]'', a tale of the Church of the Catacombs. The book was published at the end of 1854, and its success was immediate and phenomenal. Translations of it were published in almost every European language.<ref name=cathen/> Wiseman wrote ''Fabiola'' in part as an answer to the vigorously [[Anti-Catholicism|anti-Catholic]] book ''[[Hypatia (novel)|Hypatia]]'' (1853) by [[Charles Kingsley]].<ref name="Wheeler">{{harvnb|Wheeler|2006|pp=70–71}}</ref><ref name="Uffelman">{{harvnb|Uffelman|1986}}</ref> The novel was mainly intended the aid the embattled Catholic [[minority group|minority]] in England.

The year 1854 was also marked by Wiseman's presence in Rome at the definition of the [[dogma]] of the [[Immaculate Conception]] of the Blessed Virgin on 8 December.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=752}}

In 1855, Wiseman applied for a [[coadjutor bishop]]. [[George Errington (bishop)|George Errington]], who was then [[Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth|Bishop of Plymouth]] and his friend since boyhood, was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Westminster and [[Titular Archbishop]] of Trapezus. Two years later, Manning was appointed Provost of Westminster. During Wiseman's later years Errington was hostile to Manning, and to himself insofar as he was supposed to be influenced by Manning. The story of the estrangement, which was largely a matter of temperament, is told in Ward's biography. In July 1860 Errington was deprived by the Pope of his coadjutorship with right of succession. He retired to [[Prior Park]], near Bath, where he died in 1886.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=753}}

Wiseman's speeches, sermons and lectures, delivered during his tour, were printed in a volume of 400 pages, showing an extraordinary power of speaking with sympathy and tact. He was able to use considerable influence with English politicians, partly because in his time English Catholics were wavering in their historical allegiance to the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal party]]. He was in a position to secure concessions that bettered the condition of Catholics in regard to poor schools, reformatories and workhouses, and in the status of their army chaplains. In 1863, addressing the [[Catholic Congress in Mechelen]], he stated that since 1830 the number of priests in England had increased from 434 to 1242, and of convents of women from 16 to 162, while there were no religious houses of men in 1830 and 55 in 1863. The last two years of his life were troubled by illness and by controversies in which he found himself, by Manning's influence, compelled to adopt a policy less liberal than that which had been his during earlier years.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=753}}

Wiseman had to condemn the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom, with which he had shown some sympathy at its inception during 1857, and to forbid Catholic parents to send their sons to [[Oxbridge|Oxford or Cambridge]], though at an earlier date he had hoped (with Newman) that at Oxford at least a college or hall might be assigned to them. In other respects, however, his last years were cheered by marks of general regard and admiration, in which non-Catholics joined. After his death on 16 February 1865, there was an extraordinary demonstration of popular respect as his body was taken from St Mary's, Moorfields, to [[St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green|St Mary's Catholic Cemetery]] in Kensal Green, where it was intended that it should rest only until a more appropriate place could be found in a Catholic cathedral church of Westminster. On 30 January 1907, the body was removed with great ceremony from Kensal Green and was reburied in the crypt of the [[Westminster Cathedral|new cathedral]], where it lies beneath a Gothic altar tomb, with a recumbent effigy of the archbishop in full pontificals.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=753}}

Wiseman's birthplace on Calle Fabiola in Barrio Santa Cruz, the old Jewish part of [[Seville]], features a commemorative plaque, as does Etloe House in Leyton, London E10, where he lived from 1858 to 1864.

==Quotes==
"The doctrine and practice of the Church must not be allowed to be impugned by those who have no claim at all to Scripture, and who can prove neither the canon, its inspiration, nor its primary doctrines, except through that very authority which they are questioning, and through treacherous inconsistency with the principles on which they are interrogating it. When many years ago this ground was boldly adopted, it was charged with being an attempt to throw Protestants into infidelity, and sap the foundations of the Bible. Years of experience, and observation not superficial, have only strengthened our conviction, that this course must be fearlessly pursued. We must deny to Protestantism any right to use the Bible, much more to interpret it. Cruel and unfeeling it may be pronounced by those who understand the strength of our position, and the cogency of the argument, but it is much more charitable than to leave them to the repeated sin of blaspheming God's Spouse and trying to undermine the faith of our poor Catholics. The cry of 'The Bible! [T]he Bible! [N]othing but the Bible!' is as perilous to man's salvation as the Jews' senseless cry, 'The Temple of the Lord! [T]he Temple of the Lord! [T]he Temple of the Lord it is!' ({{bibleverse|Jeremiah|7:4|KJV}})"<ref>{{harvnb|Wiseman|2018|p=11}}</ref>

==Artistic recognition==

Wiseman was sculpted by [[Christopher Moore (sculptor)|Christopher Moore]] during 1853.<ref>{{harvnb|Gunnis|1953}}</ref>

In [[Robert Browning]]'s 1855 poem "Bishop Blougram's Apology", the speaker, a somewhat hypocritical English Catholic cleric, is based on Wiseman.

==Schools==
Several schools have been named after Wiseman, including:

*[[The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Greenford]], a high school located in [[Greenford]], West London. It was originally opened in 1959<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wiseman.ealing.sch.uk/page/?title=School+History&pid=47|title=The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School - School History|accessdate=8 February 2024}}</ref> as a special agreement school catering for 456 boys and girls aged 11–15 years.
*[[Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Birmingham]], a Catholic secondary school, in Birmingham, England.
*[[Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Coventry]], a Catholic secondary school in Coventry, England.

==Notes==
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==Works==
*[https://archive.org/details/dailymeditations00wiseuoft Daily Meditations by Cardinal Wiseman]
*[[iarchive:realpresenceofbo00wiseuoft|The Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Blessed Eucharist, Proved from Scripture. In Eight Lectures, Delivered in the English College, Rome]]
*[[iarchive:a615586000wiseuoft|Twelve Lectures on the Connection between Science and Revealed Religion. Delivered in Rome]]
*[[iarchive:a615349800wiseuoft|Lectures on the Principal Doctrines and Practices of the Catholic Church. Delivered at St. Mary's, Moorfields, during the Lent of 1836]]
*[https://archive.org/details/a628387200wiseuoft The Catholic Doctrine on the Use of the Bible. Being a Review of His Grace Archbishop Dixon's "Catholic Introduction to Scripture" (1852)]
*[https://archive.org/details/fabiola00wise Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs (1854)]
*[https://archive.org/details/wisemansworks01wiseuoft Essays on Various Subjects in Six Volumes. Vol 1]
*[https://archive.org/details/wisemansworks02wiseuoft Essays on Various Subjects in Six Volumes. Vol 2]
*[https://archive.org/details/a615342800wiseuoft Sermons on Our Lord Jesus Christ and on His Blessed Mother]
*[https://archive.org/details/sermonsonmoralsu00wiseuoft Sermons on Moral Subjects]
* {{cite book|last=Wiseman|first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Wiseman|title=Judging from the past and present|year=1864|publisher=John Murray|location=London|title-link=s:Judging from the past and present, what are the prospects for good architecture in London? }}

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite web | author = Anon | url = https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg=Wiseman,%20Nicholas%20Patrick,%201802-1865.&searchCode=NAME%2B&searchType=1&recCount=25 | title = Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick, 1802-1865 | access-date = 7 July 2019 | year = 2019 | website = Library of Congress }}
* {{cite book | last = Diamond | first = Michael | year = 2003 | title = Victorian sensation, or, The Spectacular, the Shocking, and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-century Britain | publisher = Anthem Press | location = London, UK | isbn = 1843310767 | lccn = 2003446248 }}
* {{cite book | last = Fothergill | first = Brian | title = Nicholas Wiseman | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0wkXgjlyS2wC&q=Nicholas+Wiseman&pg=PR2 | access-date = 7 July 2019 | year = 2013 | orig-year = 1963 | publisher = Faber & Faber |location = London, UK | isbn = 9780571307258 }}
* {{cite book | last = Gunnis | first = Rupert | title = Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 | year = 1953 | publisher = Odhams Press | location = London, UK | lccn = 53003647 | oclc = (OCoLC)684045 }}
* {{Cite web| last = Hunter-Blair | first = Oswald | url = http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15670a.htm | title = Catholic Encyclopedia: Nicholas Patrick Wiseman | website = www.newadvent.org | access-date = 7 July 2019 | year = 1912 | publisher = Robert Appleton Company | location = New York, NY }}
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen|volume=28|pages=752–753|first=Arthur Wollaston|last=Hutton|author-link=Arthur Wollaston Hutton}}
* {{cite web | last = Miranda | first = Salvador | title = Nicholas Wiseman | url = http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1850.htm#Wiseman | work = The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church | access-date = 9 April 2009 | year = 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091009215308/http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1850.htm#Wiseman | archive-date = 9 October 2009 | url-status = dead }}
* {{cite web | last = Morrin | first = Olive | url = http://www.libfocus.com/2015/02/cardinal-wiseman-at-maynooth.html | title = Cardinal Wiseman at Maynooth | access-date = 7 July 2019 | date = 13 February 2015 | work = libfocus }}
* {{cite journal | last = Uffelman | first = Larry K. | date = June 1986 | title = Kingsley's Hypatia: Revisions in Context | journal = Nineteenth-Century Literature | volume = 41 | issue = 1 | pages = 87–96 | publisher = University of California Press | location = Oakland, CA | doi = 10.2307/3045056 | jstor = 3045056 }}
* {{cite web | editor-last = Watson | editor-first = J. R. | editor2-last = Hornby | editor2-first = Emma | url = http://www.hymnology.co.uk/n/nicholas-wiseman | title = Nicholas Wiseman | access-date = 7 July 2019 | year = 2013 | work = The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology | publisher = Canterbury Press | location = Norwich, UK | oclc = 862965143 }}
*  {{cite book | last = Wheeler | first = Michael | title = The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-century English Culture | year = 2006 |publisher= Cambridge University Press |location= Cambridge, UK |isbn=0521828104 |lccn = 2005018619}}
* {{cite book | last = White | first = Andrew Dickson | title = A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom | chapter-url = http://www.human-nature.com/reason/white/chap5.html | year = 1896 | publisher = D. Appleton and Company | location = New York, NY | lccn = 09020218 | oclc = 192320 | chapter = V: From Genesis to Geology }}
*  {{cite book | last = Wiseman | first = Nicholas Patrick Stephen | title = The Catholic Doctrine on the Use of the Bible | url= https://archive.org/details/a628387200wiseuoft |access-date= 7 July 2019|year=2018 |orig-year=1853 |publisher=Richardson and Son |location=London, UK |isbn= 9781332402335 }}

==Further reading==
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*{{cite CE1913|wstitle = Nicholas Patrick Wiseman|volume=15|first=David Oswald Hunter |last=Blair}}
*{{cite DNB|wstitle = Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen|volume=62|first=William Charles Mark |last=Kent}}
*{{cite ODNB|first=Richard J.|last=Schiefen|title =Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen (1802–1865)|id=29791}}
*{{cite book|author=Wilfrid Philip Ward|title=The life and times of Cardinal Wiseman &#91;1802-1865&#93;|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5BYFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1|year=1897|publisher=Longmans, Green, and co.|pages=1–}}

==External links==
*[http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/g2bv3 Nicholas Patrick Wiseman Collection] at Pitts Theology Library, [[Candler School of Theology]]
*{{Internet Archive author |sname=Nicholas Wiseman}}
* {{Librivox author |id=2684}}

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