Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Cantwell, Michael, 1589-1639, former Jesuit Priest
Parallel form(s) of name
- Michael de Morales
- de Cantouilla
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
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Description area
Dates of existence
1589-1639
History
Born: 1589, Kilkenny/Tipperary
Entered: 1605, Lisbon, Portugal (LUS)
Ordained: 1615/16
Died: 1639, Ireland
Left Society of Jesus: 27 March 1634
◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Two Entries : 1. Michael Cantwell; 2. Michael De Morales
DOB 1586 Tipperary (1), Kilkenny (2); Ent 1605 Portugal (1), 1605 TOLE (2); RIP post 1631 Ireland (1); RIP post 1619 (2)
A Writer; LEFT the Society c 1630; Is praised by O’Sullevan Beara (1)
1617 in TOLE; 1619 Seville; perhaps he is identical with Michael Cantwell (2)
◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in 1589 and was a student at the Irish College, Lisbon, when he entered the Society in that city, 1607.
He resumed his ecclesiastical studies at Coimbra, but having completed only two years of Theology there, he was transferred to Spain, where he completed his studies at the College of S Hermenegildo, at Seville, and where he was ordained priest, 1615/1616.
He was Minister at the Irish College, Seville, in 1621, when he finally got permission to return to ireland. He had been trying to get back to Ireland to patch up quarrels in his family. After his return he worked on the Mission in East Munster, but left the Society, or was dismissed, early in 1630. That same year he set out for Rome, allegedly with the support of some Irish Bishops, to lay before the Holy See complaints, not only against the Jesuits in Ireland, but against all the regular clergy of the country.
His later career cannot be treated.
◆ 2014 412 Studies - Michael Cantwell - A Troubled Irish Jesuit in 17th Century Spain - Lozano.doc
◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
CANTWELL, MICHAEL (Irish), entered the Society 1605. (Hogan's Ibernia, p. 249.)
◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
MORALES, MICHAEL DE, Father (Irish), alias CANTWEL, was a native of Kilkenny. He appears in the Province of Toledo in 1617. In 1619 at the Irish College, Seville. Irish Ecclesiastical Record, February, 1873). He may be identical with Michael Cantwell, who entered the Society 1605, and died in 1631. (Hogan's list.)