What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Blessed Dominic Barberi Italian Passionist priest, who received Blessed John Henry Newman into the Catholic Church, died in the Railway Tavern on this site, 27th August 1899
Blessed Dominic Barberi was an Italian Passionist priest renowned for receiving John Henry Newman into the Catholic Church; he died at the Railway Tavern on this site in 1899.
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