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Born: Ireland
Entered: 11 September 1561, St Andrea, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM)
Ordained: ??

Left Society of Jesus: 29 August 1603

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 “Hally”; RIP after 15/08/1603

◆ Old/17 has Ent 11/09/1561 Rome
◆ Old/17 has “Hallio” Dimissi 29/08/1603 Milan (RH INF)

◆ CATSJ A-H has “Hallius or Halius or Halyus or Haly or Hally” - it seems to be 4 persons but considered to be the same; DOB 1545 or 1646 Irish; Ent 11/09/1561 or 1560 Rome;
David Dinnis, Maurice Halley and Edmund Daniel were received in the Roman Novitiate 11/09/1561
Studied Humanities, Philosophy ad Theology
1570 in Lombardy
1577 Studying Theology at Padua
1590-1593 Confessor at Loreto College (poss also studying at Padua)
1594-1596 Confessor at Professed House Milan
1597-1603 Confessor at Milan and teaching Humanities - gone Sept 1603
1606 Not in CAT said to be in Ireland

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Maurice Halli
11 September 1561 Entered Professed House Rome

◆ Finegan Notes

DOB Ireland; Ent 11/09/1561 Rome; Ord by 1590; LEFT 29/08/1603

Early formation was haphazard due to ill health and he was in various places : Milan, Rome, Austria and Lithuania
Ordination date is unclear, but he was a Priest by 1590 when he was teaching Humanities at Padua.
He also spent time as Confessor at Loreto and then from 1594 at Milan Residence
He LEFT 29/08/1603

Born: c1606, Ireland
Entered: 11 June 1626, St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM)
Ordained: 1637,

Left Society of Jesus: 04 January 1646

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1626

◆ Old/15 (1) has on one copy (13) one Ent 11/06/1626 RIP after 1645

◆ Old/17 has “Gionsono” Ent 11/06/1626 St Andrea

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 1608 Irish; Ent 1626 or 1629 St Andrea;
1636 at Roman College Studying Philosophy 3 years, Theology 2 years and taught Grammer - talented teacher
1639 At Perugia College teaching Humanities
1642-1645 At Loreto College (College Illyricum) - talent is excellent, fit for any post except Superior as is in delicate health

1678 Lived in Dublin, a native of the northern parts of Ireland (Fr N Netterville states that he knew him)
1698 Is said to be living in March at Mr Synnott’s in Merchant’s Quay Dublin.

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Henry Johnson 21
11 June 1626 Entered St Andrea Rome

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born in Ireland c 1606 and was brought to Europe while still a child and educated there. He entered the Society at Rome, June 11, 1626

After his Noviceship he studied Philosophy for three years at the Roman College, and was then sent for a short period of Regency to the College of Macerata. He resumed his ecclesiastical studies at the Roman College, 1633, and was ordained priest c 1637. He was then sent to teach Humanities at the College of Perugia, where he remained until 1641 when he went to Florence to make his Tertianship. On the completion of the latter he was assigned to the Illyrian College at Loreto.

Ever snce 1633, Johnson had been in poor health. Six years later he succeeded to a family inheritence and was alloed by the General to make an act of renunciation in favour of his mother. His request to the General to make the act of renunciation with reversion to himself was refused. After November 1643, a frequent correspondence shows that Johnson again was in feeble health and wavering in his vocation. He was persuaded to stay in the Society, bit finally left January 4, 1646.

Some years earlier, Father Robert Nugent was intetested in Johnson’s joining the irish Misison. The General was also of the opinion that his health might improve in Ireland. Johnson, however, no longer knew either Irish or English and represented to the General that he could not hope to exercise a fruitful ministry there, much less hide the fact that he was a foreigner in his native country.