Victorian priest and scholar John Henry Newman to be made a saint in Rome

Influential British cardinal who died in 1890 is to be canonised before thousands including Prince Charles at Vatican ceremony

Prince Charles and several British MPs will join thousands of pilgrims in St Peter's Square on Sunday for the canonisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman, a theologian and scholar regarded as one of the most influential figures of Victorian Britain.

Newman, who was a Church of England priest before converting to Catholicism in 1845, is the first Briton to be made a saint since 1976.