Pope Francis celebrates today the Canonization Mass for English John Henry Newman, Italian Giuseppina Vannini, Indian Maria Teresa Chiramel Mankidiyan, Brazilian Dulce Lopes Pontes, and Swiss Margarita Bays In Saint Peter's square at the Vatican
Cardinal Newman was a raised Anglican and on his mothers side he descended from French Huguenot refugees he later veered toward the High Church Oxford Movement and finally converted to Catholicism and was made a Cardinal 1879 by Pope Leo XIII.