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Born: 1583, Waterford City, County Waterford
Entered: 01 October 1606, Madrid, Spain
Died: July 1607, Madrid, Spain
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◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was the son of James Walshe and Catherine Wise, and he was born in Waterford in 1583, and entered te Irish College, Salamanca, on October 16, 1604. Two years later, October 1606, he was admitted, on the recommendation of Father Richhard Conway, to the Novitiate of the Toledo Province at Madrid.

Before the First year of his Noviceship was complete he fell over and died. July 1607

An annotation by Father Conway says of him:- finem vitae fecit cum opinione singularis idolis et virtutis.

Born: County Waterford
Entered: 1648, Waterford
Died: 23 August 1650, Waterford - described as a Martyr of Charity

Alias Brehon

Name given as a Novice in Waterford 1649

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Ent 1646 as Brother; Died 09 August 1650 of the plague in Waterford as a Novice.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ :
He died in Waterford, a victim of the plague, 31 August, 1650.

◆ James B Stephenson SJ Menologies 1973

Brother Jasper Breen ????-1650
We know very little of Br Jasper Breen, except that he was a Brother Novice at Waterford in 1648, and that he died there of the plague on August 28th 1650.

He is mentioned in the Menologies to emphasise the fact that even in difficult and Penal times, the Irish Province strove to have its own noviceship, and never lacked Novices, both scholastics and brothers.

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
BRIAN, JASPER, was a Novice at Waterford in 1618, “bonae voluntatis”, He died at Waterford of the plague, on the 23rd of August, 1650.

Born: 1620, Waterford City, County Waterford
Entered: 1639, Villagarcía, Galicia, Spain - Castellanae Province (CAST)
Died: 21 June 1640, Villagarcía, Galicia, Spain - Castellanae Province (CAST)

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ :
Died at the Villagarcía Novitiate as a Novice