His Majesty the King has visited the Birmingham Oratory in honour of Saint John Henry Newman.
Arriving at the Oratory on 3 September, the King was met by the Archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley, and the Provost of the community, Father Ignatius Harrison.
Daniel Joyce, curator of the Newman Museum, led the King’s tour of the community’s buildings, including the sacristy, where some of Newman’s vestments are kept, and the Cardinal’s Room, which remains exactly as St John Henry left it when he died in 1890.
