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Tue 07 Jul 2008Remains of Cardinal Newman to be relocated
BRITAIN: The body of Cardinal John Henry Newman, who died in 1890, is to be exhumed and placed in a sarcophagus at his memorial church, officials confirmed yesterday.
Campaigners for the beatification of the cardinal said his remains would be reinterred at the Oratory Church in Edgbaston, Birmingham, at a public ceremony in the autumn.
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