Born: 04 November 1715, Ardfert, County Kerry
Entered: 26 August 1735, Paris, France - Franciae Province (FRA)
Ordained: 1748, Paris, France
Final Vows: 02 February 1752
Died: post 1766
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 (1) has Ent 1734-5 RIP after 1757

◆ Old/16 has : “P Charles O’Kefe”; DOB 04/11/1717 Ireland; Ent 1735 France; Prof 4 Vows 02/02/1752; RIP post 1763

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Charles Emmanuel (Arthur) O’Keefe”; DOB 04/11/1715 or 10/10/1716 Ardfert; Ent 26/09 or 26/08/1735 or 1724 or 1735; FV 02/02/1752
1743 At Moulins College teaching Grammar, Rhetoric and Humanities
1746 At Paris College (Louis-le-Grand) studying Theology
1757-1761 At Bourges College FRA Minister, Prefect of General Studies, Confessor and Consultor
1766 towards the end is at Avignon College

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Two Entries

O’Keef and O’Keefe

DOB 09/10/1716 or 04/11/1717 Ireland; Ent 26/08/1735 Paris; FV 02/02/1752; RIP post 1763

Taught Humanities for five years and Rhetoric for one.

1746 Studying Theology at Louis-le-Grand Collège, Paris (FRA CAT 1746)
1762 Prefect of Studies at Bourges. : “Préfet des Hautes Etudes” (Arrêt du Parlement de Paris, 1763)

There was a Captain Art O’Keefe in the army of James II.
Ther Christian names of the Jesuit suggest that he was the son of an officer in the Sardinian service.

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1737 FRA Cat
Novitiate Paris
“Carolus Emmanuel O Keeffe”
Born 04/11/1715 Ardfert diocese
Entered 26/08/1735
Studied Philosophy 1 before entry. Novice

1740 FRA Cat
Novitiate La Flèche
“Carolus Emmanuel O Keeffe”
Born 04/11/1715 Ardfert diocese
Entered 27/08/1735
Studied Philosophy 1 before entry then 1; Teaching Humanities 1

1743 FRA Cat
Collegium Moulins
“Carolus Emmanuel Arthurus O Keeffe”
Born 24/11/1715 Ardfert diocese
Entered 26/08/1724
Studied Philosophy 1 before entry then 1; Teaching Grammar 4, Rhetoric 1

1746 FRA Cat
Collegium Paris
“Carolus Emmanuel O Keeffe”01
Born 24/11/1716 Ardfert diocese
Entered 26/08/1735 Paris
Studied Philosophy 1 before entry then 1, Theology 1; Teaching Humanities 5, Rhetoric 1

1749 FRA Cat
Collegium Paris
“Carolus Emmanuel Ô Keeff”
Born 04/11/1717 Ardfert diocese
Entered 26/08/1735 Paris
Studied Philosophy 1 before entry then 1, Theology 4; Teaching Humanities 5, Rhetoric 1

Ordained 1748

1754 FRA Cat
Collegium Rouen
“Carolus Emmanuel O Keeff”
Born 04/11/1717 Ardfert diocese
Entered 26/08/1735 Paris
Professed Four Vows 02/02/1752 Rouen
Studied Philosophy 1 before entry then 1, Theology 4; Teaching Grammar 5, Rhetoric 1, Philosophy 5

1757 FRA Cat
Collegium Bourges
“Carolus Emmanuel O Keeffe”
Born 04/11/1717 Ardfert diocese
Entered 26/08/1735 Paris
Professed Four Vows 02/02/1752 Rennes
Studied Philosophy 1 before entry then 2, Theology 4; Teaching Grammar 5, Rhetoric 1, Philosophy 5, Theology 4

1761 FRA Cat
Collegium Bourges
“Carolus Emmanuel O Keeffe”
Minister; Professor General Studies; Health; Librarian; Sodality; Consultor since October 1757

1766 LUGD Cat
Collegium Avignon
“Carolus Emmanuel O Keeffe”
Ex FRA Province

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII - Second Appendix
KEEF, O', CHARLES EMMANUEL, Father. (Irish Catalogue, P. 74.) He was born October 9, 1716; entered the Society in Paris, August 26, 1735; taught humanities for five years and rhetoric for one, and was studying theology in the College of Louis-le-Grand, Paris, 1746. (tanul, Provincia Francice, 1746.) During 1762 he was Prefect of Studies in the College of Bourges.

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in the diocese of Ardfert, November 4, 1715, and he entered the Society at paris, August 26, 1735, having already commenced Philosophy studies.

After his first religiousprofession, he made his second year of Philosophy at La Flèche, and then remained for three years as a Regent in that College. he continued his Regency at Moulins and was Prefect at Bourges, 1743-1744. He now completed his Philosophy course and studied Theology form four years at the Collège Louis Le Grand at Paris, where he was ordained Priest in 1748.

On the completion of his studies he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at Rennes, and later Professor of Theology at Bourges, where he had graduated DD. He remained at Bourges until the dissolution of the Society in France. In his later years at Bourges he was Prefect of Studies. He was at the College of Avignon in 1766-1767, but after that year there is no further trace of him, nor the year of his death ever recorded during that troubled period in the Society’s history.