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I have a friend who is Poping, and will be joining the Ordinariate. Does anyone know where I might find an icon of Bl. Newman to give as a welcome home gift?

John Henry Newman [ewtnreligiouscatalogue.com] This isn't exactly an icon but close.

Check out http://www.trinitystores.com/store/art-image/john-henry-newman-1801-1890

The site http://www.trinitystores.com/ is chock full of surprises.

Quite a collection. Surprises might not be adequate to describe some of the images.

Too right Trinity Stores is full of surprises.

I'm not enthusiastic about the icons by Lentz - just look at some of them

icons by Robert Lentz [trinitystores.com]

I mean when was Einstein canonised ? Cardinal Bernadin of Chicago ?

When it comes to icons by Bro. Robert Lentz I pick the ones that appeal and make sense to me and ignore the rest. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Canonisations/glorifications commence when people develop devotion to the person in question. Maybe some of his subjects will one day be canonised/glorified. Indeed, some of them have been.

For many of them, however, I'd say "no way".

There will always be a warm spot in my heart for John Henry Cardinal Newman, because of his observation, "The laity are those without whom the Church would look silly".

This is rather untraditional, but I purchased it for my boss (Director of the Newman Center at UB). Not my style, but it is his.

http://www.fatherbill.org/gallery.php?action=viewPicture&id=344&gall_id=18

Wow, Ed, thanks for that link. I hadn't seen any of Father McNichols' work of late. I see though that he has done himself proud as a student of Brother Lentz.

I do think the one that really got me was that of St Peter the Aleut paired with St Andrew Bobola - I think a tryptich might be in order - add St Josaphat Kuntsevych and place St Peter in the middle. Wow!

My two cents, Lentz' icon of Blessed John Newman (albeit not a proper subject for iconographic presentation - but certainly more appropriate for it than some others he has painted) is among his "better" works.

I just saw his icon of St Mary Magdalene [trinitystores.com]. It most resembles a poor knock-off of Steve McCurry's rightfully famous National Geographic cover shot of Sharbat Gula ("Afghan Girl') [s7d2.scene7.com]

Of all those linked to date, I'd go with the diptych - no it's not an icon, but it's quite nicely done.

Many years,

Neil