Fleming, Edward, Jesuit Novice
- Person
Born: Drogheda, County Louth
Entered: 1611, Belgium
Died: 1611, Belgium
Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING
◆ CATSJ A-H has
1611 “Edward Fleming” “at School in Belgium, about to join Rhetoric class. Were it not for illness would become a remarkable classical scholar
◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Three Entries : Edward Fleming and two “Flemings” with no Christian name, but all of whom DOB Drogheda and Ent 1611
On one with no Christian name :
He is described as an angelic youth.
Dr Lynch p 190 of “Alithinologia” says that Thomas Fleming, of Drogheda, who had two grandsons Jesuits, was fined £3,600 (of our money), imprisoned till death, and his property was confiscated because he would not go to the Protestant Church.