The Feast of All Saints marks the declaration of the great St John Henry Newman as a Doctor of the Church. It is also three weeks since his Feast Day, 9 October, and which happens to coincide with the anniversary of the publication of the classic collection Carry On Jeeves written by his cousin Plum – P.G. Wodehouse to the rest of us – on 9 October 1925.
That publication date happened to also be the 80th anniversary of John Henry's reception into the Catholic Church at Littlemore near Oxford on 9 October 1845. (Rather understandably, the Anglican Communion has opted for the traditional date choice – of his death – as his Feast Day on 11 August.)
