Dominic Barberi

Dominic Barberi ( born June 22, 1792 in Palanzana in Viterbo, Italy, † August 27 1849 in Reading, England) belonged to the Congregation of the Passionists.

From 1842 he worked as a missionary in England, where he established contacts with the Oxford Movement. On October 9, 1845, he took on in the Catholic Church at Littlemore near Oxford John Henry Newman. In October 1963, Dominic Barberi by Pope Paul VI. beatified.