Showing 293 results

Born: 28 June 1924, Carntressy, Pettigo, County Donegal
Entered: 24 September 1947, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 09 May 2021, The Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast,Country Antrim

Left Society of Jesus: 11 September 1956

Parents, Joseph and Catherine (Rogers) were farmers and ran a small business and lived at Tattyreagy, Omagh, County Tyrone

Youngest of five boys with one sister. (One brother a priest in the Brooklyn, USA, Diocese)

Family moved just after he began school in Pettigo, and he then went to the Christian Brothers primary school in Omagh for three years. He then went to St Columb’s, Derry. He was awarded at scholarship to St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London and qualified as a teacher. He taught at the Christian Brothers school in Omagh.

Baptised at St Mary’s, Pettigo, 01/07/1924
Confirmed St Sacred Heart, Omagh by B O’Kane of Derry, 02/06/1936

1947-1949: St Mary's, Emo,, Novitiate
1949-1950; Laval France (FRA) studying
1950-1953: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1953-1956: Belvedere College SJ, Regency

Address 2000: Killymeal Park, Dungannon, County Tyrone

https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/gallagher-terence-peter-terry/58532281

GALLAGHER, Terence Peter (Terry): Death

GALLAGHER, Terence Peter (Terry) (of Beechill Close, Belfast, formerly of Pettigo Donegal, Tattyreagh, Omagh, Killeeshil and Dungannon). Terry died peacefully in The Ulster Hospital on Sunday, May 9,2021. Terry is pre-deceased by his loving wife Chris, brothers, Patrick, Fr Michael, Hugh, Dan, and sister Rose. Terry will be deeply missed by his children Brenda, Joan, and Conor, his grandchildren, his extended family circle, friends and neighbours. Requiem Mass for Terry will be in St Joseph’s Church, Carryduff tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12.00 noon (streamed live www.churchmedia.tv/camera/parish-of-drumbo-and-carryduff) Followed by interment in Dublin Road Cemetery, Omagh, arriving approximately 2.30pm.

Born: 14 June 1928, Coote Terrace, Portlaoise, County Laois
Entered: 07 September 1945, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 October 1949

Younger Brother of John B - LEFT 1970 as Priest; Older Brother of Donal Gannon - LEFT 1966 as Priest

Parents William, a Chemist and a Dentist and Gertrude (Aird)

Fifth of eight boys with three sisters.

Early education was for eleven years at the St Mary’s CBS, Portlaoise

Baptised at Ss Peter and Paul, Portlaoise 21/08/1945
Confirmed by Dr Keogh of Kildare and Leighlin at Ss Peter and Paul, Portlaoise, 09/11/1936

1945-1947: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1947-1949: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate

After leaving he became a dentist

Born: 01 October 1872, Galway City, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1892, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1907 - health reasons

Educated at St Joseph’s Seminary, Galway, Coláiste Iognáid, Galway and Mungret College SJ

by 1896 at Valkenburg Netherlands (GER) studying

Came to St Francis Xavier College, Melbourne, Australia for Regency, 1898

Born: 28 June 1908, Australia
Entered: 19 Febriary 1928, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1936

1928-1930: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Novitiate
1930-1933: Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Juniorate, UCD (ASL from 1931)
1933-1936: Casa S Antonio, Chieri, Italy (TAUR), Philosophy

Born: 18 October 1940, Patrick Street, Portumna, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1959, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 26 January 2021, Carlingford Nursing Home, Old, Dundalk Road, Carlingford, County Louth

Left Society of Jesus: 18 June 1963

Born in Dublin

Father, Gerard Joseph (GJ), was a doctor. Mother, Evelyn (Hughes)

Two younger sisters.

Educated at various National school in the country and then at St Joseph’s, Garbally Park, Ballinasloe, County Galway.

1959-1961: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1961-1963: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate

Address 2000: Bellurgan, Dundalk, County Louth

https://rip.ie/death-notice/brian-glynn-louth-dundalk-433403

Peacefully, in the gentle care of the staff of Carlingford Nursing Home. Beloved husband of Odile and dear father of Alan, Louise and Richelle. He will be sadly missed by his sorrowing wife, son, daughters, Alan’s partner Sarah Jane, his children Ruby, Robyn, Ethan and their mother Sally, Louise’s son Oran, Brian's sisters Kate and Patt and his nephews, nieces, relatives and friends

Date Published:
Wednesday 27th January 2021

Date of Death:
Tuesday 26th January 2021

Born: 02 March 1874, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1891, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1898

Educated at the Model School, Marlborough Street, Dublin and Clongowes Wod College

Parents in the wine business.

1891-1893: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1893-1894: Milltown Park, Dublin, Rhetoric
1894-1895: Valkenburg Limburg, Netherlands (GER), Philosophy
1895-1897: Xavier College SJ, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Regency
1897-1898: St Aloysius College SJ, Bourke Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, Regency

Born: 12 May 1919, Charleville Road, North Circular Road, Dublin City
Entered: 07 September 1937, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 14 August 2017, Mount Tabor Nursing Home, Sandymount Green, Sandymount, Dublin City

Left Society of Jesus: 16 June 1940

Father was a business man in Dublin

Only boy with a sister.

Early education was at a Convent school and at age 10 went to Belvedere College SJ.

1937-1939: St Mary's, Emo, County Laois, Novitiate
1939-1940: Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Juniorate

After Leaving he taught in Belvedere College SJ, Dublin

Address 2000: Dartry Road, Rathgar, Dublin City

https://rip.ie/death-notice/william-bill-hanly-dublin-rathgar-314732

The death has occurred of

WILLIAM (BILL) HANLY
Rathgar, Dublin

HANLY William (Bill) (Rathgar, Dublin and formerly Phibsborough) 14th August 2017 (peacefully) at Mount Tabor Nursing Home, Sandymount. Beloved husband of Olive and father of Anne, Michael and Peter. Sadly missed by his family, daughters-in-law, son-in-law, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, all his relatives, former colleagues of Belvedere College SJ and the Jesuit Community and friends.

Rest in peace.

Reposing on Wednesday (16th August) evening in Fanagans Funeral Home, 54 Aungier Street, Dublin 2, from 5.00pm until 7.00pm. Removal on Thursday (17th August) morning to the Church of SS Columbanus & Gall, Milltown, arriving at 10.50am for Requiem Mass at 11.00am, followed by burial at Glasnevin Cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations if desired to Mount Tabor Nursing Home, Sandymount.

Date Published:
Monday 14th August 2017

Date of Death:
Monday 14th August 2017

Born: 22 January 1880, Caherelly Castle, Grange, County Limerick
Entered: 07 September 1897, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1914

Father a farmer. Only child.

Educated Christian Brothers NS in Tipperary Town and then Mungret College SJ1895

1897-1899: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1899-1901: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Rhetoric
1901-1902: Pressburg (Bratislava) College, Batthyányplatz, Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary (Slovakia) (ASR), Philosophy
1902-1903: Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands (GER), Philosophy
1903-1904: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1904-1910: Xavier College SJ, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Regency
1910-1914: Milltown Park, Dublin, Theology

Born: 08 May 1919, Belmullet, County Mayo
Entered: 125 September 1937, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 10 February 1945

Father, John, was in the RIC and retired with his family to Jones Road, Drumcondra, Dublin, County Dublin. He died in 1938. Mother, Bridget (Breslin).

Youngest of four boys and one sister who is a Mercy nun.

Early education at a Convent school in Dublin he then went to O’Connell schools

1937-1939: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1939-1942: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1942-1945: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

After leaving he entered a seminary in New York and was ordained priest in 1937.

Died 2000

Born: 26 October 1862, Australia
Entered: 25 February 1879, St Aloysius College SJ, Sevenhill, South Australia, Australia - Austraco-Hungarica Province (ASR-HUN)

Left Society of Jesus: 1894

1879-1881: St Aloysius College SJ, Sevenhill, South Australia, Australia (ASR-HUN), Novitiate
1881-1884: St Ignatius College SJ Riverview, Sydney NSW (HIB), Australia, Regency

Born: 27 March 1712, Gorey, County Wexford
Entered: 25 May 1725, Alcalá, Spain - Toletanae Province (TOLE)
Ordained: ???

Left Society of Jesus: post 1735

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1734 BAE Cat
Compluntense University Madrid
“Patricius Henrriquez”
Born 27/03/1712 Gorey (Ferns diocese)
Entered 25/05/1729
Studying Theology 1

◆ Francis Finegan Notes
DOB 1712 Gorey; Ent 25/05/1729 Alcalà TOLE;

After First Vows made made at Alcalá 27/05/1731 he began Thelogy there and was still there in 1735

Nothing further known

Born: 05 September 1884, Drumhirk Cottage, Ahabog, County Monaghan
Entered: 07 September 1900, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 12 April 1909

Father was a Senior Inspector of National Schools. Parents then moved first to Belfast and then to Cabra, Dublin.

Youngest of four brothers still living and two sisters

Educated at St Louis School, Monaghan, then Christian Brothers at Donegal Place, Belfast, then St Peter’s NS, Phibsborough and then Belvedere College SJ.

1900-1902: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1902-1903: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Rhetoric
1904-1907: Kasteel Gemert, Netherlands (TOLO) , Philosophy
1907-1908: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1908-1909: Belvedere College SJ, Dublin, Regency

Born: 21 September 1900, Craven Street, Salford, Lancashire, England
Entered: 09 January 1918, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 31 July 1928 (from Clongowes - Regency)

Father owned four businesses.

Eldest of four sons and one sister

Early education at St Joseph’s Parish School, Salford, England and then at Clongowes Wood College SJ from 1910

1918-1921: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate remained there from Jan 1920 to September 1921 studying
1921-1924: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1924-1927: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1927-1928: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency

Born: 16 March 1871, Mullingar, County Westmeath
Entered: 27 September 1892, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1902

Educated at Castleknock College in the Novitiate and Scholasticate

1892-1894: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1894-1896: Maison Saint Louis, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Isnalds, (FRA), Philosophy
1896-1902: St Aloysius College SJ, Bourke Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, Regency

Born: 01 September 1828, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 24 September 1849, St Acheul, Amiens, France - Franciae Province (FRA)

Left Society of Jesus: 1856

1849-1851: St Acheul, Amiens, France (FRA), Novitiate
1851-1853: Brugelette College, Brugelette, Belgium (FRA), Philosophy
1853-1854: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1854-1855: Roman College, Rome Italy (ROM), Theology
1855-1856: Montauban, France (TOLO), Theology

Born: 04 October 1916, Derrymihan, Castletownbere, County Cork
Entered: 07 September 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 17 September 1942

Parents, Daniel and Julia (Moynihan) were farmers and Father worked also for the Sisters of Mercy in Castletownbere.

Eldest of three boys with three sisters.

Educated at Castletownbere NS and then at Mungret College SJ (1931-1938)

Baptised John Francis Holland at Sacred Heart, Castletownbere, 07/10/1916

1935-1937: St Mary's, Emo, Novitate
1937-1940: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1940-1942: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

Reported to be in Manchester teaching, married and doing some counselling in his spare time. (1973)

Born: 21 March 1862, Killowen, Rostrevor, County Down
Entered: 22 September 1890, Frederick, MD, USA - Marylandiae-Neo Eboracensis Province (MARNEB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1903

Educated Mungret College SJ 1883-1889

1890-1892: Frederick, MD, USA (MARNEB), Novitiate
1892-1893: Frederick, MD, USA, Rhetoric
1893-1894: Georgetown College, Georgetown, Washington DC, USA, Philosophy
1894-1896: Woodstock College, Woodstock MD, USA, Philosophy
1896-1899: Boston College, Harrison Avenue, Boiston MA, USA, Regency
1899-1900: St John’s College, Fordham, Bronx NY, USA, Regency
1900-1903: Xavier College, West 16th Street, New York NY, USA, Regency

Born: 06 June 1896, Connaught Terrace, Garville Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin
Entered: 09 October 1914, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 08 August 1929 (from Heythrop College, England)

Parents lived by private means and lived at Whitechurch House, Rathfarnham.

Eldest of three sons, and his two brothers were novices in the Society. Older brother of Edward Hughes - LEFT 1918 as scholastic and George - RIP 1930 as scholastic

At 10 years of age he went to St Mary’s College, Rathmines

1914-1916: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1916-1919: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Juniorate
1919-1923: Regency at St Aloysius College, Sydney
1923-1925: San Ignacio, Sarriá, Barcelona, Spain (ARA) studying Philosophy
1925-1926: Clongowes Wood College SJ, looking after health
1926-1929: Heythrop, Oxfordshire (ANG) studying Theology

Born: 07 August 1909, Kinvara, County Galway
Entered: 01 September 1928, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 07 August 1931

Born at Hollis Street, Dublin

Parents have commercial business interests.

Eldest of three boys and three girls.

Education was at first ten years at a National School in Kinvara, and then at St Mary’s College, Galway

1928-1930: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1930-1931: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate

Born: 24 December 1870, Australia
Entered: 23 January 1892, Loyola Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1899

Starts as “James” in 1892, then becomes “John”

1892-1895: After Novitiate remained in Loyola Greenwich studying Rhetoric
1895-1896: Xavier College, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Regency
1896-1897: St Aloysius, Bourke Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, Regency
1897-1898: Xavier College, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Regency
1898-1899: St Aloysius, Burke St, Sydney NSW, Australia, Regency

Born: 06 April 1901, The Cross, Killygordon, County Donegal
Entered: 28 February 1922, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 03 July 1926 (from Milltown Park)

Two brothers and one sister.

Educated at Killygordon NS, and then at the Christian Brothers in Gorey and Tipperary, and eventually CBC Cork. Finally he went to St Columb’s, Derry. After school he went to the Royal College of Science of Ireland in Dublin

1922-1924: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1924-1925: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1925-1926: Milltown Park, Philosophy

Born:
Entered: 1738, Bordeaux, France - Aquitanae Province (AQUIT)

Left Society of Jesus: 1743

◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent 1737 or 1738 at Bordeaux (AQUIT);
12/04/1740 First Vows
1739-1740 Taught Grammar at Bordeaux
1740-1742 Prefect of Boarders at Irish College Poitiers, and taught Physics

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
First Vows in 12/4/1740 AQUIT (in pen top p 75)

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1743 AQUIT Cat
Collegium Angoulême
“David Kennedy”
Dismissed from Society

◆ Finegan Notes
DOB ??; Ent 1737 Bordeaux; LEFT 1743

After First Vows he was sent on Regency to Poitiers and then to Angoulême, from which he LEFT in 1743

Born: 27 August 1843, Kilclooney, Ardara, County Donegal
Entered: 12 April 1864, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1870

Educated at Raphoe Diocesan Seminary, Stranorlar and Letterkenny

1864-1865: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1865-1866: Drongen, Belgium (BELG), Novitiate
1866-1867: rue des Récollets, Leuven, Belgium (BELG), Philosophy
1867-1870: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency

Born: 15 October 1910, Millbank, Shillelagh, County Wicklow
Entered: Sacred Heart Novitiate, Los Gatos CA, USA - Californiae Province (CAL)

Left Society of Jesus: 1934

Educated at Mungret College SJ

1928-1930: Sacred Heart Novitiate, Los Gatos CA, USA (CAL), Novitiate
1930-1932: Sacred Heart Novitiate, Los Gatos CA, US, Rhetoric
1932-1934: Mount St Michael’s, Spokane WA, USA (ORE), Philosophy

Born: 02 April 1910, Rostrevor Terrace, Rathgar, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 01 September 1928, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 22 December 1930 (from Rathfarnham)

Father was a Civil Servant.

Second eldest of six boys.

Early education at CUS Dublin and Clongowes Wood College SJ

Born: 03 April 1917, Renville, Oranmore, County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 16 November 1949

Older brother of Ignatius Keogh - LEFT 1943 and Andrew Keogh - LEFT 1939

Parents James and Bridget (Cunningham) were Grocers.. Family lived at Sea Road, Galway City, County Galway

Second of four brothers with one sister.

Early education was at a National school in Galway and then at Coláiste Iognáid

Baptised at Oranmore, County Galway parish on 07/04/1917
Confirmed at St Joseph’s Church Galway by Dr O’Doherty of Galway, 21/05/1928

1935-1937: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1937-1940: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1940-1943: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1943-1947: Mungret College SJ, Regency
1947-1919: Milltown Park, Theology

In 1952 he was living at Lower Baggot Street, Dublin and about to get married.

In 1973 is reported to have been a Radio Éireann announcer for a time, but then became Secretary of the Licensed Vintners Association. Said to be married, possibly with no children and living at Gilford Road, Sandymount, Dublin

Born: 26 october 1854, Galway City, County Galway
Entered: 11 September 1873, Milltown Park, Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 1877 for health reasons

by 1877 at home with health

Early education at NS in Galway and St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg

1873-1875: Milltown Park, Dublin, Novitiate
1875-1877: Living out of community for health reasons

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Obliged by bad health to leave for some time (2.5 years). Returned but got ill again

Born: 07 March 1842, Killaloe, County Clare
Entered: 07 September 1859, Beaumont, England - Angliae Province (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1863 for health reasons

1859-1860: Beaumont, England (ANG), Novitiate
1860-1861: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1861-1863: At home managing health

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - Clongowes student; Went home from ill health and LEFT

Born: 12 March 1746, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 29 September 1763, Tournai, Belgium - Belgicae Province (BELG)

Left Society of Jesus: post 1767

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1764 GALL BELG Cat
Novitiate Tournai
“Gregorius Ledwidge”
Born 12/03/1746 Dublin
Entered 29/09/1763, Tournai
Studied Grammar and Humanities 5 and Rhetoric 2.4 in Ireland before entry; Novice

1767 GER SUP Cat
Collegium Ingolstadt
“Gregorius Ledwidge”
Born 12/03/1746 Dublin
Entered 29/09/1763
Studied Grammar and Humanities 5 and Rhetoric 2.4 in Ireland before entry; Studying Philosophy 2

◆ Francis Finegan Notes
DOB 1612 Dublin; Ent 29/09/1763 Tournai;

Had studied at Lille and Douai before Ent 29/09/1763 Tournai

1765 After First Vows he was sent for studies to Ingolstadt but after 1767 his career cannot be traced

Born: County Waterford
Entered: Villagarcía, Galicia, Spain (CAST)

Left Society of Jesus: 1626

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1617 or 1611

◆ Old/15 (1) has “Lea” Ent 1617 or 1618 and in pencil on one RIP after 1625

◆ Old/17 has “Lea” Dimissi 24/08/1626 (CAST) (repeated 13/07/1627)

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Lea or De Lea”; DOB 1602 or 1603 Waterford; Ent 1617 or 1618 Villagarcía;
First Vows on 18/10/1618
1622 at Compostella College
1625 In Salamanca College teaching

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
Nicholas Lea

DOB 1602 Waterford; Ent CAST;

Had previously stuied Philosophy before Ent CAST

Son of George and Ursula née Lucas

After First Vows he was sent for studies to Compostella and Salamanca where his ability for Theology was remarked upon.

LEFT 1626

Born: 03 September 1909, Australia
Entered: 10 February 1927, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1940

Transcribed HIB to ASL 05 April 1931

1927-1929: Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB), Novitiate
1929-1932: Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Juniorate (ASL from 1931)
1932-1933: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly (HIB), Philosophy
1933-1935: Berchmanskolleg, Pullach, Bavaria, Germany, Philosophy
1935-1937: Loyola Watsonia, Melbvourne, Victoria, Australia, regency
1937-1940: Xavier College SJ, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Regency

Born: 1601, County Waterford
Entered: 1616, Évora, Portugal (LUS)

Left Society of Jesus: 1623

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1616 and Old/15 (1)

◆ Old/15 (1) has in pencil in one copy Ent 1618/9

◆ Old/16 has : “P Paul Lombard”; DOB 1601 Waterford; Ent 1616 Portugal; RIP post 1634

◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent Evora 1618
1617 of Waterford age 16 Soc 1 in Portugal
1618 Ent at Évora Age 18

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1601 Waterford; Ent 1616 Portugal; RIP post 1634

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born in 1601, and entered the Society in Portugal in 1617/1618. His name occurs in the Catalogus of 1619, and he is described as a Novice at Évora, and already fifteen months there. Nothing further is known of him in the Society.

A Paul Lombard took the student’s oath at Salamanca December 18, 1623. Father Paul Sherlock, in annotating a list of Salamanca students, seems to have identified both the former Novice and the student”- “Paul Lombard, of Waterford, 1623, entered the Society, but afterwards left it”.

Born: County Galway
Entered: 07 September 1816, Hodder, England (ANG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1822

◆ The English Jesuits 1650-1829 Geoffrey Holt SJ : Catholic Record Society 1984
Born ?
Entered 07/09/1816 Hodder
1820 Clongowes
1821 Stonyhurst Theology
LEFT 1822 not ordained

◆ Catholic Record Society, Volume 70, 1981

The English Jesuits, 1650-1829: A Biographical Dictionary

by Geoffrey Holt

Lund, James. Scholastic.
?e. Stonyhurst 1812-?
S.J. September 7th, 1816.
Hodder (nov) 1816-8.
Clongowes, Ireland 1820.
Stonyhurst (theol) 1821.
Left 1822, not ordained. (116. Stol; 113; 2).

Born: 1585, County Galway
Entered: Montilla, Spain (BAE)

Left Society of Jesus: 21 February 1609

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was son of Thomas and Letitia Lynch and was born at Galway, 1585, and studied Humanities for four years in that city under Irish and English masters. Having finished his schooling, he spent a year in business, but then entered the Irish College of Salamanca on July 25, 1602. He was received into the Society in the Province of Andalusia c May, 1605, and made his noviceship at Montilla.

Sometime after his Noviceship, epilepsy manifested itself and he was sent to Belgium, but his sickness did not abate. In the circumstances, he could not be ordained Priest. The General, in a letter of February 21, 1609, allowing him to leave the Society, praised him for his good-will and constancy and the good example he radiated during his short association with the Society.

◆ Royal Irish Academy : Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge University Press online
Lynch, Alexander
by Judy Barry

Lynch, Alexander (c.1585–p. 1620), schoolmaster, was son of Thomas and Letitia Lynch. As a boy he was educated in Galway, reading humanities for four years under English and Irish teachers. In 1602 he left Galway for the Irish Jesuit college in Salamanca, where he was admitted on 25 July to study for the priesthood; he completed two years of philosophy and was considered a promising student. In about May 1605 he was received into the Society of Jesus and made his noviciate at Montilla in Andalusia where he was found to be suffering from epilepsy (morbo comitiali). He was sent by his superior to the Spanish Netherlands in the hope that the change would be good for him. He did not improve, and on 21 February 1609 the superior general released him from his obligations as a Jesuit.

Lynch returned to Galway where his home became a safe house for Jesuit missionaries passing through the area. He began teaching a wide range of subjects in the free school founded in 1580 by Dominick Lynch at a place called Ceann-a-bhalla (head of the [town] wall), near the Spanish Arch in the southern district of Galway city. He was assisted by one James Lynch, who was awarded a pension in 1638 for his work in ‘training and breeding’ the pupils ‘for the space of thirty years and upwards in good literature and sciences’ (O'Sullivan, Old Galway, 462). Under Alexander Lynch's influence the school rapidly acquired a reputation for scholarship and attracted students from all over Ireland, including the Pale. Many of these scholars became distinguished men in public life, while others were prepared for entry into one of the continental seminaries.

In about 1620 Galway was visited by an official commission which included the chancellor of Ireland, Archbishop Thomas Jones (qv), and the archbishop of Tuam, William Daniel (qv). The commissioners reported that they had found a public schoolmaster named Lynch ‘placed there by the citizens’ and were impressed by the standard of his students, who were well taught in ‘verses and orations’, a judgement confirmed by John Lynch (qv), a former pupil, in De praesulibus Hiberniae. The method of teaching described by both Archbishop Jones and Dr Lynch accords closely with the method used in Jesuit schools at the time.

Archbishop Jones, although praising the school, insisted that if Lynch did not conform to the established religion he should not be allowed to continue to teach. Lynch refused to conform and was required to enter into recognizances of £400 sterling, which was paid partly by himself and partly by his friends and supporters in Galway. Lynch was replaced by a Mr Lally and no further record of him has survived.

Timothy Corcoran, State policy in Irish education 1536–1816 (1916), 65; M. D. O'Sullivan, ‘The lay school at Galway in the sixteenth century’, Galway Arch. Soc. Jn., xv (1931), 16–18; idem, Old Galway (1942); J. Rabbitte, SJ, ‘Alexander Lynch, schoolmaster’, Galway Arch. Soc. Jn., xvii (1936), 34–42; John Lynch, De praesulibus Hiberniae, ed. J. F. O'Doherty (2 vols, 1944), ii, 184

Born: 1631/5,
Entered: 07 June 1652, Lyon, France (LUGD)
Ordained: ?
Died: post 1672

Left Society of Jesus: 1659

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 07/06/1652

◆ Old/15 (1) has one Ent 07/06/1652

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Mark Lynch Senior”; DOB 1634; Ent 07/06/1652;

◆ Finegan Notes
DOB 1631/5 Ireland; Ent 1653 Lyons; LEFT 1659

After First Vows sent to Dôle for Regency and then resumed his studies, but LEFT 1659

Born: 27 September 1894, Bandon, County Cork
Entered: 07 September 1911, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1915

Father in Excise duty work. Mother died in 1907

Second eldest of seven boys, with five sisters (2 deceased). Eldest brother has emigrated to America.

Education was at a National School in Bandon and then at thirteen went to Clongowes Wood College SJ. He finished at PBC Cork.

1911-1913: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
1913-1915: Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Rhetoric

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT Society after going to Rathfarnham in 1913 before Vows. Was killed in France during the WWI in 1918

Born: 09 September 1716, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 22 April 1735, Toulouse, France (TOLO)

Left Society of Jesus: 1747, Milan, Italy (MED)

◆ Old/17 has “Lyon” Dimissi 1747 Milan (MED)

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1737 TOLO Cat
Collegium Tournai
“Christophorus Lyon”
Born 09/09/1716 Dublin
Entered 22/04/1735
Studied Philosophy 1

1743 TOLO Cat
Collegium Clermont-Ferrand
“Christophorus Lyon”
Born 23/12/1710 Dublin
Entered 21/03/1735
Studied Philosophy 3; Teaching Grammar 4

1749 TOLO Cat
in Prov AQUIT
“Christophorus Lyon”
Dismissed 1747

◆ Finegan Notes
DOB 1716 Dublin; Ent 22/04/1735 Toulouse; LEFT 1747

After First Vows he studied at Tournon and was then sent on Regency to Clermont-Ferrand

LEFT 1747

Born: 22 July 1871, Castleisland, County Kerry
Entered: 14 August 1895, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1905

Educated at Christian Brothers Tralee and Mungret College SJ

Originally accepted by Provincial (Patrick Keating) for the Australian Mission

1895-1897: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1897-1899: Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands (GER), Philosophy
1899-1904: Xavier College,Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Studying then Teaching and Editing “Xaverian”
1904-1905: Milltown Park, Dublin, Theology

Born: 31 August 1874, Belfast, County Antrim
Entered: 06 October 1892, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 1908

Younger Brother of John C MacErlean - RIP 1950

Educated at St Malachy’s College, Belfast and Castleknock College, Dublin then Royal University, Dublin

by 1896 at Enghien Belgium (CAMP) studying

Born:
Entered: 07 September 1813: Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England - Angliae Province (ANG)
Ordained:

Left Society of Jesus: by 1826

1813-1815: Hodder, Stonyhurst College SJ, Lancashire, England (ANG), Novitiate
1815-1822: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency and Theology

not in HIB or ANG 1826 Catalogi

Born: 10 June 1920, Daly’s Terrace, Rathfarnham, Dublin City County Dublin
Entered: 04 October 1937, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 16 June 1948 (from Clongowes Wood College SJ)

Younger brother of Thomas MacMahon - RIP 2009

Father, Thomas, was an Executive Officer in thee Civil Service. Mother, Elizabeth (Hickey).

Youngest of two boys and two girls.

Early education was at a Presentation Convent school Terenure and Beaufort High School Rathfarnham and then at age 9 he went to Synge Street (1923-1933)

Baptised at Church of the Annunciation, Rathfarnham, 12/06/1920
Confirmed at St Kevin’s Church, Harrington Street, by Dr Wall of Dublin, 01/03/1932

1937-1939: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1939-1943: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1943-1946: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1946-1948: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency

Address 2000: Shangannagh Vale, Shankill, County Dublin

Born:
Entered: 1594, Landsberg, Upper Germany

Left Society of Jesus: 07 September 1597

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet Ent 1594 No 1

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet Ent 1597 No 2 (probably an error should read RIP or LEFT not ENT)

◆ Old/15 (1) in pencil RIP after 1597

◆ CATSJ I-Y has Ent 1594; Left 07/09/1597 Fribourg
1594 Novice in Landsberg Upper Germany

Born: 07 January 1935, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim / Birr, County Offaly
Entered: 06 September 1952, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 1967
Died: 06 February 2013, Cherryfield Lodge, Milltown Park, Dublin (Priest of the Westminster Diocese, England)

Left Society of Jesus: 20 June 1966

Father was Superintendent of the Guards and the family lived at John’s Mall, Birr, County Offaly.

Third of five boys with two sisters.

Early education was at a Convent school and then at the Presentation Brothers in Birr for nine years, and then at Mungret College SJ for three years.

Priest of the Westminster Diocese, England

Funeral at Milltown Park, Dublin

Buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in the Jesuit burial plot.

Address 2000 & 1991: More House, The Grove, Isleworth, Middlesex, England

Irish Jesuit News, February 20, 2013

Mourning Fr Ken McCabe

Fr. Ken McCabe (Westminster Diocese) died peacefully on the evening of Wednesday, February 6th. In recent years, a series of strokes left Ken struggling with severe health issues. Since 2010, he received wonderful nursing care from the team in Cherryfield Lodge. He had an unusual history, as Kevin O'Higgins recounts.

Ken had life-long links with the Irish Province. He was educated at Mungret College, and entered the Jesuit Novitiate in 1952. As a scholastic, he spent several years teaching in Belvedere College. During those years of Jesuit training, the plight of disadvantaged children became the main focus of his concern. In the mid-1960s, his efforts to sound the alarm about the mistreatment of children in Industrial Schools led to difficulties with both Church and State authorities. The upshot was that Ken departed from both Ireland and the Society. He was ordained to the priesthood for Westminster Diocese in 1967.

For the next 40 years, Ken devoted his energies to working on behalf of children from distressed families. He founded the Lillie Road Centre, which offered education and residential care to over 400 such young people. His final project was to establish a branch of this Centre in Edenderry, near Dublin.

During all those years in London, Ken maintained close links with many Irish Jesuits. Thanks to Fr. Joe Dargan’s decision to send novices to work with Ken on summer placements, those links transcended Ken’s own generation. It is wonderful that, in his final years, Ken returned to Milltown Park and the loving care of the nursing staff in Cherryfield. Fittingly, his mortal remains were laid to rest in the Jesuit burial plot in Glasnevin Cemetery. Ken was a great man, and a dedicated priest. May he rest gently in God’s love.

Interfuse No 151 : Spring 2013

Obituary

Fr Kenneth W (Ken) McCabe (1935-2012) : former Jesuit

Kenneth W. McCabe was born in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Ireland on 7th January 1935. After education at the Presentation Brothers School in Birr, Co. Offaly and Mungret College, Co. Limerick, he entered the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus in September 1952. After his Novitiate he studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at University College Dublin and later taught at Belvedere College in Dublin. His theological formation was at Milltown Park in Dublin.

A profound interest in the connection between poverty and delinquency deepened during his studies and various pastoral placements, so much so that he saw this as his particular vocation as a priest. At that time – the early 1960's - the Irish Province of the Jesuits was involved mainly in running schools and colleges. In conscience Ken did not see his future in teaching and asked to be released from his Jesuit vows to work as a secular priest in Westminster. He was granted this leave in the spring of 1966 and after some months residing in Edgware parish while taking up a probationary year as a teacher at St James' School, and after a short period of study at Allen Hall, he was ordained to the Diaconate at St Edmund's in December 1966. He was ordained to the Priesthood at Sion Hill Convent in Dublin on 27th May 1967 by Bishop Pat Casey.

He returned to Edgware immediately after ordination and was then appointed to St Charles' Square. He became chaplain at the Cardinal Manning Boys School where he also did some part-time teaching. He moved residence from Ladbroke Grove to Brook Green. During this time he set up the “Lillie Road Centre - a service for children and families in times of trouble”. Fr Ken spent the next thirty years running the charity he had set up which had various incarnations in Chiswick and Osterley. He returned to Dublin to live with his sister Muriel in 2007. His health began to deteriorate and after a period in the Mater Hospital he was very kindly given a place at the Jesuit Retirement Home in Cherryfield Lodge, Milltown Park.

A personal appreciation by Kevin O'Higgins

Ken McCabe was a complex man, but with a very simple, straightforward faith. He took the Gospel seriously, made it the guidebook for his life, and everything he did followed from that. The Beatitudes could be seen as the script he tried his level best to follow. Perhaps because he kept his Christianity simple and straightforward, he was a force to be reckoned with! Ken was passionate about the causes he espoused, and stubborn to the point of driving other people to exasperation. Yet he was always in touch with the lighter side of life, especially when he could persuade a couple of people to join him at a table adorned with a pot of tea and some nice biscuits! He had a great sense of fun, and often enjoyed being mischievous, particularly when things were serious. His life was devoted to doing good, helping others, especially the most vulnerable, and always standing up for the truth. He was uncompromisingly true to his conscience, a maverick of the kind that the Church and society need more than ever!

Ken's life story merits a book. In fact, he has been mentioned in several books and articles already. Fifty years ago, at a time when few people wanted to listen, he tried his best to sound the alarm about the mistreatment of children in Industrial Schools. In a dark period for the Irish Church and State, the young Jesuit scholastic Ken McCabe took a courageous stand, even though it meant standing in a cold and lonely place and, ultimately, accepting exile from his beloved Ireland. He tumed that exile into a magnificent opportunity to do good. His children's charity in London helped to transform the lives of hundreds of young people, many of them of Irish descent. In the persons of Cardinal John Heenan and, later, Cardinal Basil Hume, Westminster Diocese encouraged Ken in his pioneering work, freeing him from more conventional parish work in order to help children in danger.

Over the years, more than 400 children passed through the Lillie Road Centre. Ken cherished every single one of them. Many young Jesuit students passed through the Lillie Road Centre also. Shortly after Ken began working in London, Fr. Joe Dargan decided to send novices to work with him on summer placements. This decision kept alive Ken's life-long link with Irish Jesuits. Providentially, many years later, when decisions had to be made regarding Ken's nursing care and, indeed, the final resting place for his earthly remains, one of the young Jesuits who had worked with him as a novice, Fr, Tom Layden, was now Provincial of the Irish Jesuits. Ken's family and friends, as well as his Diocese of Westminster, will be eternally grateful to Tom.

Initially, Ken fought against the process of slowing down. His last big project was to open an extension of his London charity near Dublin, in Edenderry. He acquired a wonderful house, and opened a new centre for troubled young people. Those who worked with Ken on this project knew that, even early on, there were signs that all was not well with his health. He did his very best to carry on regardless, but was actually relieved when he was finally persuaded that it was time to see a doctor. Scans revealed that he had suffered several minor strokes, and these bad begun to impair his memory and his ability to communicate.

Ken knew his energy, dynamism and even his independence were all slipping away. That was an unimaginably painful realisation for someone like Ken, who had always been, literally, in the driving seat, always pursuing some new project, always in control. The fact that he came to accept his new reality with so much grace was an indication that, in spite of appearances, Ken himself always knew that he wasn't really the one in charge. He fought the good fight for as long as possible.

About three years ago, in addition to his struggle with memory loss, Ken's physical health began to decline and he had to spend a couple of months in the Mater Hospital. From there, he moved to Cherryfield, into the loving care of Mary, Rachel and the entire staff. He was cared for also by the Jesuits of Cherryfield community, who went out of their way to make him feel welcome and at home. In his final two and a half years, Cherryfield gave back to Ken what he had offered to so many young people - care, understanding, love and a refuge from the storm.

To end, a recent memory of Ken. One Sunday afternoon, about four months ago, we were sitting in Cherryfield watching an Andre Rieu concert on the television. When the orchestra began to play the beautiful 2nd Waltz by. Shostakovich, Ken suddenly called to one of the nurses and said “I want to dance!” So they danced a waltz for a couple of minutes. I hadn't seen Ken so happy for many months. When he sat down, there was look of triumph on his face, as if to say “The old Ken McCabe spirit is alive and well”. It was. And it still is. May he waltz away to his heart's content, in God's loving company, forever and ever. Amen!

◆ Mungret Annual, 1959

Behind the Jesuit Curtain

Kenneth McCabe SJ

A Thing that always puzzled me w about the Jesuit in Mungret was the secrecy they inevitably displayed in any discussion about Jesuit life. Later I was to discover that the problem was by no means confined to Mungret. Men from all other Jesuit colleges had experienced the same mystery. For some unknown reason what took place behind the “Jesuit-curtain” was a secret.

I remember on one occasion bringing the subject up with a scholastic, This man had a sense of humour and decided to treat me to a highly imaginative account of what went on in the Jesuit novitiate. None of the common misconceptions of the novitiate of fiction was left unexplored. I heard of the practice of sweeping endless corridors with the inevitable tooth-brush. I was given vivid pictures of innocent-eyed novices obediently planting young cabbages upside down, I was even convinced of the benefits of sweeping swirling leaves against the fury of fierce March winds. The whole fantastic description (which I partly believed) filled me with a nagging curiosity, Surely, I told myself, there must be even stranger things to be seen by the initiated. It was with a spirit of adventure that I set out a year or two later to share in a first-hand peep behind the “Jesuit-curtain”.

The Irish Jesuits have their novitiate at Emo, near Portarlington, Co Leix I arrived there on September 7th, 1952 prepared for the worst. My first surprise was meeting another Mungret re presentative who had entered there the previous year. It was a relief to see tha: he was none the worse for his year with the Jesuits, and, in fact, he seemed to have benefited by the country air and Jesuit food. As I hadn't heard a word about this man since he left Mungret a year previously (another example of Jesuit secrecy) I was greatly relieved at what I saw. With this extra assurance I walked bravely into the Jesuits.

The Master of Novices was on the door-step to meet me and with him was a young man wearing a Jesuit gown over his ordinary lay clothes. This man I was told, was a second year novice and would be my guide or angel for the first two weeks in the house. When I said good-bye to my parents I began my grand tour of the house eager to see the worst.

I was amazed at what I saw. The house literally swarmed with young me dressed like my guide. The funny thing was that they all looked extremel cheerful and full of the joys of life. I met, too, the other young men who were to be my companions for the next two years in Emo. The whole place seemed so natural that I already began to have my doubts about the novitiate of fiction. However, I daren't ask my guide any thing the first night, so I decided to wait till morning to discover the worst.

A good night's sleep is always a revitalizing tonic. Next morning the clang of big bell left me with no illusions as to where I was but I found no difficulty getting up, eager to begin my round of exploration. (I must admit that the “first-fervour” attitude to getting up, which I had on that great morning, has ever since eluded me). First there was Mass and then breakfast. There followed an interview with the Master of Novices and also with his assistant. Then my guide told me we would have half an hour's manual work. This was it. I smiled bravely to myself and obediently went along to collect my tooth-brush. But here I had my first disappointment. I was given an ordinary, if well worn-out, brush and told to sweep, in an annoyingly normal way, a long corridor. The only item that came up to my expectations was the phenomenal length of the corridor. Bang went the tooth-brush myth.

The other items on the list of my Scholastic friend were eventually exploded in the same very ordinary way. Emo is blessed with extensive and very beautiful grounds and it takes forty vigorous novices all their spare time to keep them in reasonably good order, without wasting valuable time planting cabbages upside-down or sweeping leaves against the wind.

Life in the novitiate is divided mainly between prayer and learning the rules of the Society of Jesus. There is, of course, no shortage of games and recre ation that every normal young man must have. One or two features of novitiate life merit special mention. A month after his entrance the novice begins a thirty day retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius. Without seeming too “pitious” every Jesuit must admit that this is one of the greatest experiences of his life. Even the schoolboy doesn't take long to be gripped by the intensity of the thirty days.

Perhaps the most unforgettable of the “tests” imposed on the Jesuit novice is the month he must spend in the County Home in nearby Mountmellick. The novice works there as a wardsman helping in the many chores of the hospital and around the old and straggling house. Comparatively speaking the work in the County Home is tough but the novelty carries him over the first few days and then he begins to enjoy the experience, It is no exaggeration to say that his month in “Mellich” is the most vivid memory the average young Jesuit carries with him from Emo. Perhaps for the first time in his life he will come face to face with real poverty and suffering. It is an experience that does much to mature the schoolboy novice and to imprint and mould in the future priest a respect and a love for Christ's poor.

At the end of two years in Emo the novice takes three perpetual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Now he is a Jesuit for life. He says good bye to his friends in Emo and sets out for the next stage in his training, his university studies, which he does for three years at Rathfarnham Castle in Dublin,

University studies: the very idea might send a tremor of fear through the innocent reader. He might even think that it is at this stage that the Jesuit sheds his cloak of humility (it is a well known fact that all novices are humble) and begins his quest for wisdom and superiority. But this is not true. The average Jesuit confines himself to Bachelor of Arts degree and finds the work as tough as everyone else. At the end of three years, instead of being proud and superior, he is much mo likely to be humbler and far more aware of his own limits. Of course, occasionally the law of averages will send in the ranks of the society a genius, This young man might very well take pride in his achievements but if he does, he does so, not because he is a Jesuit, but because he is a man, as such, subject to the weaknesses of human nature. Strange though it may seem the briliant man is generally the most humble of all.

Three years in Rathfarnham is followed by three years in the midland bogs. In St Stanislaus College, near Tullamore, the Jesuit Scholastic studies philosophy to deepen his knowledge of the realities of life. More than anywhere else this is the place where the “schoolboy Jesuit” becomes the mature man, who in a short year or two, will called on to share some of his learning and training with the youth entrusted to the care of his society. This is duty that the young Jesuit eagerly to forward to.

So after eight years of training Jesuit Scholastic is considered ready for the colleges. This is where most of us first meet him. There are always three or four Scholastics in every Jesuit College. They are generally full of enthusiasm and ideas, both of which have been brewing since the young novice was first inspired by the ideals of St Ignatius. The mystery still remains however, why the Scholastic is so slow to share his secrets of Jesuit life. One explanation is that he does not wish to give the impression of “fishing” for vocations. St Ignatius wisely forbids his men to do this. However, once a possible “vocation” approaches a Jesuit friend and tells him of his intention, then the Jesuit will do all he can to encourage and direct him in his choice.

What kind of people join the Jesuits? There is no definite answer to this question. It is true to say that the majority of Jesuits are young men straight from school but many, too, have already tasted the pleasures of life in the world. Late vocations come from all walks of life and it is not unusual to find a wide variety of men in a Jesuit novitiate. How does his training affect the Jesuit-to-be? Jesuits are often accused of being all of a type; moulded in a set fashion and turned out stamped “Jesuit”. This accusation is losing vogue nowadays. The great diversity of work undertaken by Jesuits all over the world is an undeniable proof of the individuality of each member of the Society of Jesus. One thing is true, however. Every Jesuit is the same in so far as all are dedicated to a common cause, all are fired by a single ideal, all work under the same motto: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, to the Greater Glory of God.

This brief peep behind the “Jesuit curtain” shoud help to show that Jesuits are really human despite appearances or accusations to the contrary. Life in a college community is as rich in human experiences as is the life of any large family. Schoolboys see their Jesuit teachers as a group of austere but well-intentioned men, (at least I hope they do) men, who to all outward appearances may seem devoid of the many faults and weaknesses that are part and parcel of human nature.

The Jesuit, on the other hand, knows himself for what he really is. He has a fairly shrewd idea, too, of what his confrère really is beneath the cloak of external trappings. He knows his good qualities as well as his weaknesses and admires him for both. Together the Jesuit community try to preserve as much of the family spirit as can be preserved outside the natural family, Christmas in a Jesuit house would amaze even those who think they know Jesuits well. No effort is spared to make this homely of feasts as happy and as enjoyable as possible, Anyone still convinced of the legend of the Jesuit of fiction would be well advised to ask a Jesuit friend about his Christmas fes tivities, He will discover, that at least once a year, the Jesuit sees fit to doff his mask of formality and take an active part in the little simple joys that human nature delights in,.

Before concluding it might be well to retrace our steps and complete the description of the Jesuit training. After colleges the Scholastic goes to Milltown Park in Dublin where he reads Theology for four years, and is ordained at the end of the third. A final year of novitiate, called Tertianship, is spent at Rathfarnham Castle. Here the young priest does the full thirty days retreat for the second and last time. From then on he will make an annual retreat of eight days. At the end of his Ter tianship he is assigned to one of the many works carried on by his order.

This article is written to help anyone interested, to pierce the barrier of Jesuit secrecy. Anyone wishing to learn something of the Jesuit way of life will get enough from it to enable him to open a discussion with a Jesuit friend. There are no Jesuit secrets. If anyone still believes the Jesuit-of-fiction legend he should make a point of meeting and talking with a real Jesuit, Knock on the door of any Jesuit house. Ask to speak to a Jesuit priest. If he turns out to be a tall dark figure equipped with the legendary cloak and dagger, and a hat well down over his eyes, be sure to let me know of your discovery. However, I don't think such a person will have much trouble in realising that every Jesuit is first of all a man endowed in varying degrees, with the virtues and eccentricities of his kind.

https://dominusvobiscuit.blogspot.com/2012/05/autobiography-of-stamp.html

I read a very powerful piece about moral courage, and the lack of it, by Dermot Bolger in yesterday's Irish Times.

He mentioned Fr. Kenneth McCabe:
"The young Jesuit, Kenneth McCabe, got a truthful report about Irish industrial schools to Donogh O’Malley in 1967. The minister was sufficiently shocked to establish a committee that abolished these lucrative sweatshops, but at the last minute McCabe was excluded from the committee. Tainted as a whistleblower, he resigned from the Jesuits and went to work as a priest with deprived London children."
The name rang a bell but it took me a while to place it.

When I was editing the Shanganagh Valley News in 1958, Fr. McCabe had contributed a short story called "Autobiography of a Stamp, or, Converted by the Jesuits" as a vehicle for appealing for used postage stamps for the Missions.

I bet at that stage he had little idea how his career was to pan out ten years later. I checked out the priest list in the Diocese of Westminster and he is listed there as retired and in a Jesuit nursing home in Milltown.

Until today, I had no idea he had run into trouble for following his conscience. This upset me enormously. I'm not sure why. I never met Fr. Kenneth. I had only corresponded with him by letter. But he was nonetheless part of my growing up and he belonged to a more innocent era, as the story of the stamp so strikingly illustrates. So perhaps my upset was at a loss of innocence, a nostalgia for a time when things seemed simpler, and fixed, and true for all time.

Mind you, my upset is slowly turning into a cold anger at how he was treated. From what I read in the Ryan Report he was one of four people proposed for the Committee of Inquiry, and came recommended by Declan Costello TD, but his name got "dropped" somewhere between the Government Memorandum and the final Cabinet decision. It is not clear what role the Jesuit order played in all of this but his resignation from the Order, if such, would not reflect well on them. On the other hand, he seems to be in some way under their care today.

This post is just a small contribution to making sure he, and his bravery, are not forgotten.

Of course I don't have as many readers as the Irish Times, but, never mind.

Update - 9/2/2013

In the third comment below, Fr. Kevin O'Higgins has informed me that "Fr. Kenneth McCabe died peacefully a few days ago (Wednesday, Feb 6) in Cherryfield nursing unit, at Milltown Park". He says Fr. Ken was "a genuinely great man" and I totally agree. May he rest in peace.

Fr. Kevin himself is no slouch, as his bio on the jesuit missions website shows. He says Fr. Daniel Berrigan inspired him to join the Jesuits, and as I was reading the bio I was also thinking of Fr. Roy Bourgeois who seems to have shared some of the same experiences as Fr. Kevin on the missions.

Born: 25 February 1701, Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Entered: 01 October 1718, Paris, France - Franciae Province (FRA)

Left Society of Jesus: 22 May 1721, La Flèche, France - Paris, France (FRA)

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 01/10/1718

◆ Old/15 (1) has in pencil (25) Ent 1718 and another types (27 & 57)

◆ Old/17 has “Macarty” Dimissi 22/05/1721 La Flèche (FRA)

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Macarty”; DOB Orléans, France; Ent FRA 01/10/1718; Dismissus 27/05/1722 La Flèche

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1720 ANG Cat
Novitiate Paris
“Carolus Vincentius Macarty”
25/02/1701 Irish, Orleans, France
Entered 01/10/1718
Novice

Born: 20 November 1913, Rathdown Road, North Circular Road, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1932, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois

Left Society of Jesus: 15 July 1946 (from Milltown Park)

Father, John, was a land valuer in the Civil Service with the Boundary Survey Department. Mother, Annie McCarthy) died in 1923.

Fourth of five boys with four sisters.

Early education was at the Dominican Convent school in Eccles Street and then at O’Connells school.

Baptised at St Paul’s, Arran Quay, 23/11/1913
Confirmed at St Agatha’s, Nth William St, by Dr Byrne of Dublin, 03/03/1925

1932-1934: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1934-1937: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1937-1940: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1940-1943: Belvedere College SJ, Regency
1943-1943: Milltown Park, Theology

Reported to have gne to Cairo where he lectured in English during WWII and after. He was married to a girld from abroad.

Born: 01 May 1910, Orchard Terrace, Omagh, County Tyrone
Entered: 02 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 24 October 1943 (for health reasons)

Father, James, was foreman for a building firm. Mother was Elizabeth (Doherty). Family then lived at Pretoria Terrace, Omagh.

Eldest of two boys with a sister.

Early education at Christian Brothers Grammar School Omagh, County Tyrone and Mungret College SJ (1928-1929)

Confirmed at Sacred Heart, Omagh, by Dr McHugh of Derry, 24/05/1922

1929-1931: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1931-1934: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1934-1937: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1937-1939: Loyola, Hong Kong - studying language
1939-1940: Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, Regency
1940-1943: Canisius College, Pymble NSW, Australia - Theology

RIP 06/06/1974 ???

Born: 31 March 1859, Australia
Entered: 23 August 1890, Loyola Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 1897

1890-1892: Loyola Greenwich, Sydney NSW, Australia (HIB)
1892-1896: St Ignatius College SJ, Riverview, Sydney NSW, Australia, Regency
1896-1897: St Patrick’s College SJ, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Regency

Born: 28 November 1908, Australia
Entered: 02 March 1928, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 29 January 1931

Teacher before entry and also involved in journalism

1928-1930: Loyola Greenwich, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1930-1931: Rathfarnham Castle, studying

Born: 01 January 1825, County Tipperary
Entered: 08 January 1850, Issenheim, France - Franciae Province (FRA)

Left Society of Jesus: 1854 for health reasons

1850-1851: Issenheim, France (FRA), Novitiate
1852-1853: St Acheul, Amiens, France (FRA), Rhetoric
1853-1854: at homne caring for health

Born: 06 May 1951, Coolbawn, Goatstown Road, Dundrum, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1970, Manresa, Dollymount, Dublin
Died: 08 September 2015, Goatstown, Dublin, County Dublin

Left Society of Jesus: 06 October 1976

Father was a doctor - Niall, RIP 1977. Mother was Sheila (Healy).

Eldest with two brothers and two sisters

Educated at Mount Anville (1956-1959); Gonzaga College SJ (1959-1963) and Belvedere College SJ, Dublin, (1963-1970)

Baptised at University Church, St Stephen’s Green, 11/05/1951
Confirmed at Holy Name, Beechwood Avenue, by Dr McQuaid of Dublin, 22/03/1963

1970-1972: Manresa House, Dollymount, Novitiate
1972-1973: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1973-1974: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1974-1976: Belvedere College SJ, Regency

Address 2000 & 1991: Gonzaga College SJ, Sandford Road, Dublin City

https://jesuit.ie/news/danny-mcnelis-rip-a-man-committed-to-service-and-living-life-fully/

Danny McNelis RIP: committed to service and living life fully

Daniel last Christmas learned that he had pancreatic cancer. It was a great shock and a severe blow to all the plans he had made for his retirement. He had even got a new artificial leg to enjoy his retirement more fully. The shortness of time that he probably faced forced him to live life ever more fully. Every day, every hour mattered. He tried everything to restore his health but his cancer proved to be very aggressive and made rapid inroads into his health. He still went sailing and cycled to the doctor for every appointment up to the last few months. As it dawned on him it was more likely he was going to die than to live, he surrendered to God, “Whatever is for your greater glory, not my will but Thy will be done!”

Even though he wanted to have more time with Bríd and see Áine and Niall blossom into full adults, he couldn’t deny that he had no fear of death, and that part of him was dying to see God and to meet people like Ignatius. He decided that his last mission would be to die well. He asked Mr McCaul, the headmaster in Gonzaga College, could he talk to the sixth years on what it is like to be dying. They were spellbound by his cheerfulness and his courage. He embraced each one as they left the room, many with a misty eye. He also chose to make a farewell speech at the staff dinner in May. Again he made a deep impression.

His final task, the last thing he had any control over, was his funeral Mass. He planned it meticiously as if it was his next class. He chose the readers, readings, psalm, hymns, the celebrants, a letter he wrote to Jesus on his last sixth year retreat and who was to read it. The final hymn he chose was ‘Sailing’ by Rod Stewart and it was particularly poignant. I don’t think anyone in the packed church was ever at a more beautiful and uplifting funeral. As a mark of respect the boys of Gonzaga College, past and present, lined the avenue on both sides, three deep, and clapped the cortège as it left the grounds.

Danny had loved every day of his life in Gonzaga, from being headmaster in the Junior school to pastoral director in the Senior school, thirty years in all. He was always cheerful, full of gratitude, deeply appreciative of each boy, knowing each by name, as he watched them with interest grow and develop from first year to sixth year. He never regretted the ten years he lived as a Jesuit, in fact he seemed to love Ignatius and his early companions more than many Jesuits! He loved the outdoor life, especially sailing, a hobby he passed onto the Transition Year students. He loved preparing the leaders for the Kairos retreat each year and that and the retreats with relish and thoroughness.

Danny was an avid Leinster rugby fan (no one is perfect!). He spent many years running the Children’s Mass in his Kilmacud parish. Above all, he lived for Jesus, the Scriptures, and especially the psalms. The following letter which he wrote to Jesus on his last retreat in October 2014 gives a flavour of his devotion to Jesus:-

Dear Jesus,
Thank you for reaching out to me, embracing me, caring for me, intervening for me, inspiring me.
Help me to be the man whom you wish me to be.
Inspire me with the passion of the great saints to be your presence in the world.Give to me the urgency and passionate conviction to serve you.
Make me realise and relax in my own goodness.
Help to to change from judging others to seeing them loved by you.
Help me progressively to reduce fretting and worrying and to live more completely in the present moment.
Find me a rewarded and rewarding role in which to serve you for your greater glory.
Your loving brother Daniel.

Finally the following prayer on his Mass card sums up Danny’s spirit.

Without exception, live every day of your life with gratitude. As you look in the mirror say, thank you God, for life, for my body, my family, my loved ones, for this day and for the opportunity to be of service. Thank you, thank you, thank you…

A few days before he died, I drew one of the last smiles from Danny’s face with the comment “Do you know Danny, there is one surprise you may get when you go to heaven, there might be more Munster supporters than you ever imagined!” Of course I almost forgot, he had a great sense of humour. May he rest in peace.

Myles O’Reilly SJ

Born: 24 July 1915, Shannon View, Ennis Road, Kildysart, County Clare
Entered: 07 September 1935, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 14 February 2002, Cayman Islands

Left Society of Jesus: 05 August 1942

Father, Thomas was a road ganger for Clare County Council. Mother was Brigid (Carmody).

Youngest of four boys with four sisters

Educated at a National School for ten years, then he went to Mungret College SJ (1932-1935).

Baptised at St Michael’s, Kildysart, 25/07/1915
Confirmed at St Michael’s, Kildysart, by Dr Fogarty of Killaloe, 03/06/1928

1935-1937: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1937-1940: Rathfarnham Caltle, Juniorate, UCD
1940-1942: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

Address 2000: Strathnaim Street, Bermondsey, London, England

After leaving he became a priest : Right Reverend Monsignor John A Meaney, was Regional Director for the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies in Beirut. He retired to the Cayman Islands in 1984 serving as pastor of St Ignatius Parish on Grand Cayman from 1984 to 1995.

Msgr. John A. Meaney, CNEWA Director, Dies
By CNEWA Staff

Category: News 19 February 2002
Msgr. John A. Meaney, CNEWA’s Regional Director in Beirut from 1978 through 1984, died on 14 February in the Cayman Islands. He was 86.

Before he joined CNEWA, Meaney had served in the Caribbean as Regional Director for the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies. When Msgr. Richard Mahowald, then Director of CNEWA’s Rome office, invited Msgr. Meaney to take charge of CNEWA’s operating agency in the Middle East, the Pontifical Mission, Msgr. Meaney said: “I don’t speak Arabic, and I know nothing about Arabs and very little about the Middle East.”

Msgr. Meaney proved to be a fast learner. He arrived in Lebanon at a particularly dangerous time. Israel had invaded the south and Syria had attacked eastern Beirut, displacing some 60,000 families. He organized relief efforts that distributed food, clothing and medical supplies. He was also instrumental in rebuilding schools, hospitals and housing facilities. Although based in Beirut, Meaney also reviewed operations in Amman and Jerusalem.

He was known for his fundraising skills and his compassion for the suffering children of Lebanon.

John Andrew Meaney was born in County Clare, Ireland, on 24 July 1915. He graduated from University College in Dublin in 1940 and received a master’s degree in English from New York University in 1952. He studied at the Pontifical Beda College in Rome from 1956 to 1960, and was ordained on 2 April 1960 for the Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica.

After ordination he was appointed headmaster of St Mary’s College in Jamaica, 1960-1965. He served as pastor of St. Ignatius Parish on Grand Cayman from 1984 to 1995, when he retired. He was named a domestic prelate in 1974. Burial took place in Ireland.

Born: 07 November 1926, Dollymount Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1945, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 22 October 2010, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin City

Left Society of Jesus: 06 September 1949

Father, James, was an insurance official. Mother was Elizabeth (Whelan).

Eldest of three boys with one sister.

The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary education was at a St Pat’s Boys National School, Drumcondra and then at O’Connell’s school

Baptised at the Visitation, Fairview, 22/11/1926
Confirmed at St Agatha’s, North William Street by Dr Wall of Dublin, 03/02/1937

1945-1947: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1947-1949: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD

After leaving was said to be living in Clontarf, unmarried and in good health on all levels.

https://rip.ie/death-notice/alan-charles-meehan-dublin-dollymount-95016

Alan Charles MEEHAN
Dollymount, Dublin

Date of Death:
Friday 19th February 2010

In the loving care of the doctors and nurses in St Mary’s Ward at Beaumont Hospital, after an illness bravely borne. Sadly missed by his loving sister Ruth, brother Ken, sisters-in-law Anne and Mairaid, nieces and nephews.

Born: 02 August 1810,
Entered: 19 September 1825, Montrouge, Paris, France - Galliae Province (GALL)

Left Society of Jesus: 26 October 1835

Arthur Molloy in GALL and ROM Catalogues; Brian Molloy in HIB

1825-1827: Montrouge, Paris, France (GALL), Novitiate
1827-1828: St Acheol, Amiens, France (GALL), Rhetoric
1828-1831: Roman College, Rome Italy (ROM), Philosophy
1831-1833: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Regency
1833-1835: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Theology

Born: 16 December 1821,
Entered: 29 September 1837, Drongen, Belgium (BELG)

Left Society of Jesus: 1857

1837-1839: Drongen, Belgium (BELG), Novitiate
1839-1840: Drongen, Belgium (BELG), Rhetoric
1840-1849: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tulalbeg, Regency
1843-1844: Caring for health
1849-1851: Brugelette College, Brugelette, Belgium (FRA), Philosophy
1851-1857: Cuba: Caring for health out of community

Born: 15 April 1734, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 13 August 1751, Paris, France - Franciae Province

Left Society of Jesus: 1762 (dissolution of Society)

◆ Old/15 (1) has in pencil (31) “Xavier Moore” Ent 13/08/1751 RIP after 1757

◆ CATSJ I-Y has a “Francis Xavier Moore”; DOB 15/04/1734; Ent 13/08/1751
1761-1762 At La Flèche College Boarding School in 2nd year Theology FRA (William Galway was Bidell)

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
More or Moore

DOB 15/04/1734 Dublin; Ent 1751;

1762 Studying Theology at La Flèche. (FRA CAT)

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1754 FRA Cat
Collegium Paris
“Franciscus Xaverius Moore”
Born 15/04/1734 Irish
Entered 13/08/1751, Paris
Studying Philosophy 1

1757 FRA Cat
Collegium Caen
“Xaverius Moore”
Born 15/04/1734 Irish
Entered 13/08/1751
Studying Philosophy 2; Teaching Humanities 2

1761 FRA Cat
Collegium La Flèche
“Franciscus Xaverius Moore”
Studying Theology 2

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII - Second Appendix
MORE, or MOORE, FRANCIS XAVIER, Father (Irish). He was born in Dublin April 15, 1734; entered the Society in 1751. In 1762 he was studying theology at La Flèche. (Catal.)

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Dublin, April 15, 1734, and he entered the Society at Paris, August 13, 1751.

After his Noviceship he read his Philosophy course, after which he was sent for his Regency to the College of Caen. He resumed his ecclesiastical studies at La Flèche, and was in his second year of Theology there at the dissolution of the Society in France, 1761.

His name then disappears from the records.

Born: 15 September 1894, Inglewood, Victoria, Australia
Entered: 27 November 1911, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 06 June 1918

Father a retired Police Constable and with his mother live at “Carmel”, Golf Links Avenue, Oakleigh, Victoria.

Fourth of five boys (2 died in infancy) and he has five sisters.

Early education was at a convent school in and Northcote, in 1908 he went to St Patrick’s College Melbourne for two years.

1911-1913: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg,, Novitiate
1913-1917: Rathfarnham Castle, studying Rhetoric and at UCD
1917-1918: Belvedere College SJ, Regency

Born: 1543, Ireland
Entered: 08 January 1564, Professed House, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM)

Left Society of Jesus: 1568

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 (1) “Murus”

◆ Old/17 has : Donatus Murus” Ent 08/01/1564 Rome

◆ CATSJ I-Y has a “Donatus”; DOB 1543; Ent 1562;
1567 At Caen College teaching Humanities FRA
Made his vows not long after (cf Foley)
1565-1566 At Tournai studying Logic

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Donatus Murus (dioc Clonfert)
08 January 1564 Entered Professed House Rome

Born: 1651, County Kilkenny
Entered: 1665, Castellanae Province (CAST)

Left Society of Jesus: 1669

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as “Edmund” Ent 1665

◆ Old/15 (1) has “Edmund” Ent 1665

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Edmund Murphy or Morfius”; DOB Kilkenny; Ent 1665;
1669 At Compostella Age 18 Soc 4

◆ Francis Finegan Notes
DOB 1651 Kilkenny; Ent 1665 CAST;

After First Vows sent to Compostella for studies. Still there in 1669 but no further information.

Born: 10 June 1906, St Anthony’s Road, South Circular Road, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 20 September 1924, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 10 May 1938 (from Milltown Park)

Father worked for Browne & Nolan’s, Nassau Street.

Third eldest of five boys and he has four sisters.

Early education was for three years at a Convent school, and then he went to Synge Street (1914-1923). He then spent a final year at Belvedere College SJ.

1924-1926: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1626-1928: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1928-1929: Granada, Spain (BAE) for Philosophy but was unable to continue on account of Latin
1929-1930: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1930-1932: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1932-1935: Mungret College SJ, Regency
1935-1938: Milltown Park, Theology

Born: 03 October 1939, Lower Clanbrassil, Street, South Circular Road, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1957, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Died: 14 January 2022, Henley Place, Cedarhollow Boulevard, London, ONT, Canada

Left Society of Jesus: 03 December 1970

Father was a Radio Dealer.

Eldest in a family of three boys and two girls.

Educated at Synge Street until after the Intermediate Certificate. he then went to the High School of Commerce and did his Leaving cert there. He then took a job working in an office.

1957-1959: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1959-1963: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1963-1966: Maison Saint-Louis, Chantilly France (GAL S) studying
1966-1967: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1967-1968: Sacred Heart College SJ, Limerick, Regency
1968-1970: Milltown Park, Theology

Address 2000 & 1991: Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin City & Lambourne Avenue, Clonsilla, County Dublin

https://rip.ie/death-notice/james-brendan-nolan-dublin-468755

The death has occurred of

James (Brendan) NOLAN
Ontario, Canada and formerly, Dublin
NOLAN, James ‘Brendan’ - Born October 3, 1939 in Dublin, Ireland, Brendan Nolan passed away peacefully on Friday, January 14, 2022, at Henley Place LTC Residence in London, Ontario, Canada, in his 82nd year.

Survived by his wife Maryann Nolan; his children Anne Ravanona, Jaime Nolan Miralles, David Nolan, Michael Nolan, Sarah Nolan Miralles; first wife Rosario Miralles Sangro; siblings Eileen Nagle, Kenneth Nolan and Anne Donegan; brother-in-law Willie Donegan; grandchildren Emily and Ethan Nolan Ravanona, Aaron, Ines and Daniel O’Keefe Nolan Miralles, Sophia and Mathew Nolan, Aisling Campbell Nolan, Roxy, Billy, and Lily-Rose Nolan, Uma and Cormac Nolan Miralles DeBrun; son-in-law Stéphane Ravanona, Anne Marie Devitt, Kate Stewart; nephews and nieces; and Maryann’s daughters Laura, Beverley and families.

Predeceased by his beloved son Paul Nolan Miralles and brother Michael Nolan.

Funeral service will be conducted on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, London, Canada at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time - Canada) / 6pm Irish Time with visitation one-hour prior, followed by a burial at St. James’ Cemetery in Watford, Ontario, Canada. Registration will be required to attend as attendance numbers will be restricted.

https://www.westviewfuneralchapel.com/obituaries/james-brendan-nolan/#:~:text=James%20Brendan%20Nolan%20was%20born,the%20young%20age%20of%2017.

James Brendan Nolan
January 14, 2022

Peacefully passed away on Friday, January 14, 2022, at Henley Place LTC Residence in London, Ontario, Canada, in his 82nd year.

Survived by his wife Maryann Nolan; his children Anne Ravanona, Jaime Nolan Miralles, David Nolan, Michael Nolan, Sarah Nolan Miralles; first wife; siblings Eileen Nagle, Kenneth Nolan and Anne Donegan; brother-in-law Willie Donegan; grandchildren Emily and Ethan Nolan Ravanona, Aaron, Ines and Daniel O’Keefe Nolan Miralles, Sophia and Mathew Nolan, Aisling Campbell Nolan, Roxy, Billy, and Lily-Rose Nolan, Uma and Cormac Nolan Miralles DeBrun; son-in-law Stéphane Ravanona, Anne Marie Devitt, Kate Stewart; nephews and nieces; and Maryann’s daughters Laura, Beverley and families.

Predeceased by his beloved son Paul Nolan Miralles and brother Michael Nolan.

James Brendan Nolan was born in Dublin, Ireland on October 3, 1939, the first child of Ellen and James Nolan. He had 2 sisters, Eileen and Anne and 2 brothers, Michael and Kenneth. As a young man he excelled academically and entered the Jesuit order at the young age of 17.

He obtained a BSC in Mathematics and Physics at University College Dublin, Ireland followed by Bachelor degrees in Philosophy and Theology, and a diploma in higher education.

As a Jesuit, he studied in Chantilly, France, became a teacher and taught Math and Physics at the prestigious Clongowes Wood College for boys in Ireland. He spoke fluent French and Spanish, had a good understanding of German and was well travelled.

He left the Jesuit order, then married his first wife in 1971 and they enjoyed 28 years of marriage and had six children together. During that time, he worked as a training manager at Rowntree Macintosh (now Nestlé) before joining Leo Laboratories pharmaceutical company in Dublin, where he worked for many years as HR Director. He remained spiritual, took part in bible study groups in Ireland and Canada for many years. He was an expert on the Gospels, with a preference for the gospel of St. Paul.

He loved art (in particular Picasso, Markey) and music (from Bach, Schubert, Mozart and Chopin to Jacques Brel and Leonard Cohen) and enjoyed playing bridge when younger. He loved going to art exhibitions and concerts, was an avid reader and enjoyed meditation.

Later he took over part of the English Language School his first wife had set up and managed it for a few years before retiring permanently to London, Canada in 2001. He married his second wife Maryann Bach Maier in 2000 and they lived out the end of his years in London, Ontario, Canada.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, London at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time – Canada) with visitation one-hour prior, followed by a burial at St. James’ Cemetery in Watford, Ontario, Canada. Registration will be required to attend as attendance numbers will be restricted.

Born: 20 May 1900, Moyne Road, Ranelagh, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 31 August 1917, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 04 October 1925

Father owned a window blinds factory at Batchelor’s Walk.

Only child.

Early education at a Convent school and then at St Enda’s for two years, but intermittently due to health. He then went to CUS (1911-1914) In 1914 he went to Clongowes Wood College SJ until 1917.

1917-1919: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate
1919-1920: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Juniorate, Rhetoric
1920-1923: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1923-1925: Milltown Park, Philosophy

Born: 27 August 1910, Maryborough (Portlaoise), County Laois
Entered: 14 September 1929, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 30 May 1938 (from Clongowes Wood College SJ - Regency)

Father was a Civil Servant and family lived at Prison Avenue, North Circular Road, Dublin.

Third of five boys (3 deceased) and he has three sisters (one deceased)

Early education at Christian Brothers Portlaoise, and then at the Christian Brothers Kilkenny he then went to O’Connell’s School Dublin

1929-1931: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1932-1935: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1935-1938: Clongoiwes Wood College SJ, regency

Born: 15 November 1902, Australia
Entered: 28 October 1925, Loyola Greenwich, Australia (HIB)

Left Society of Jesus: 07 September 1932

Transcribed: HIB to ASL 05 April 1931

1925-1927: Loyola Greenwich, Australia, Novitiate
1927-1930: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD
1930-1932: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy

Born: 02 April 1871, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 13 September 1886, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down

Left Society of Jesus: 1895

1886-1888: Loyola House, Dromore, County Down
1888-1890: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Rhetori
1890-1892: Exaeten College Limburg, Netherlands (GER), Philosophy
1892-1893: Maison Saint Louis, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands (FRA), Philosophy
1893-1895: Xavier College SJ, Kew, melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Regency

◆ Fr Francis Finegan : Admissions 1859-1948 - LEFT Society from Australia in 1895