Born: 09 July 1640, Baramount, County Kilkenny
Entered: 12 May 1656, Villarejo & Madrid, Spain - Toletanae Province (TOLE)
Ordained: c 1665, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Final Vows: 15 August 1673
Died: 06 March 1705, Professed House, Madrid, Spain - Baeticae Province (BAE)

Brother of the Lord of Galway
Writer and a man of great energy.
Got a procurator General established for Irish College at Madrid

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
1673-1687 Rector Irish College Seville succeeding Ignatius Lombard
Writer; A man of great energy; Got a procurator for Irish Colleges established at Madrid

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ :
Educated at College of Luis Gonzaga at Ocaña before Ent 12 May 1656 Villarejo
After First Vows (had made Noviceship at Villarejo and Madrid) he studied at Huete, Cuenca and Alcalá completing a “Grand Act” and being Ordained c 1665
1665-1673 On completing studies and formation he was sent to the Imperial College at Madrid
1673-1687 Transcribed from TOLE to BAE and appointed Rector of Irish College Seville. His was the last Irish Rectorship, but proved to be the longest and most successful. His popularity with the students was unbounded and the College prospered spiritually and materially under his rule.
He had always hoped to go to Ireland, initially after Ordination. In 1675, Father Stephen Rice, Superior of the Mission, asked the General to send him to Ireland, and in particular to Kilkenny, but at the time it was impossible to replace him at Seville. Two years after he retired from Seville, the General promised he should be sent back to Ireland to meet the wishes of many people, however the uncertain state of the country prevented his return.
1687 until his death he was Prefect of the church at the Professed House, Madrid, where he conducted a Sodality for Noblemen. He died at Madrid 6 March, 1705

Born: 1626, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 1651, Madrid Spain - Toletanae Province (TOLE)
Ordained: 1658, Murcia, Spain
Final Vows: 15 August 1666
Died: 06 December 1712, Irish College, Poitiers, France

1699-1712 at Irish College, Poitiers (1708 taught Grammar and of delicate health)

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Three Entries : Some confused dated between James Comerford 2 and James Comerford 3
1698 In exile at Poitiers
Of remarkable piety and zeal; His loss was deplored in Waterford, even many years after his exile. (cf Letter of father Knoles 1714)

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ :
Had already studied Philosophy for two years before Ent 1650 TOLE (Madrid)
After First Vows he was sent to Murcia for studies and was Ordained there 1658
He was later engaged in the following roles : Teaching Humanities; Minister; Teaching Moral Theology and Operarius at various locations : Huesca; Imperial College Madrid; the Residence of Navalcarnero and the Residence of Alcalá all in TOLE
1676 Sent to Ireland and Kilkenny
1694 Consultor of Irish Mission
1698 Arrested and deported to France and sent to Irish College Poitiers, where he was a Consultor up to the time of his death there 06/12/1712
The General of the time highly valued his judgement on maters touching the Irish College Poitiers and the Irish Mission itself.
Such was his contemporaries esteem for him that even in his advanced years he was proposed as Rector at Poitiers
The Superior of the Mission at the time, writing to the General 06 April 1714, recalled his memory : “James Comerford was a man remarkable for holiness whose loss is deplored this day”.

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
COMERFORD, JAMES, died in exile, as I find in a letter of the 6th of April, 1714, “insignis pietate”.

Born: 27 June 1638, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 24 November 1668, Madrid, Spain - Toletanae Province (TOLE)
Final Vows: 02 February 1679
Died: 05 October 1685, Cuenca, Spain - Toletanae Province (TOLE)

1670 After First Vows in Madrid 25 November 1670 he was sent to various houses of TOLE at Huete, Caravaca de la Cruz and Villarejo
In latter years he was sent to Cuenca College as a teacher of the younger pupils, where he died 05 October 1685

Born: 02 August 1595, County Kilkenny
Entered: 27 April 1621, Madrid, Spain - Toletanae Province (TOLE)
Ordained: 20 July 1620, Irish College Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Died: post 1628, San Clemente, Spain

Official Catalogus Defuncti MISSING

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 17/04/1621

◆ Old/15 (1) has Ent 27/04/1621, RIP after 1628

◆ Old/16 has : “P Peter Langton”; DOB 02/08/1595 Kilkenny; Ent 27/04/1621 Salamanca; RIP post 1626

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB Kilkenny; Ent 1621;
1628 At College of St Clemente TOLE age 33. Taught Grammar

“The Langton pedigree” in Kilkenny Arch Journal Vol V pp86..

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 02/08/1595 Kilkenny; Ent 27/04/1621 Salamanca; RIP post 1626

His brother Joseph was a Dominican; Of the family of the late Theobald Langton SJ ANG

1626 In Spain and a Priest

(cf Langton Pedigree in “Kilkenny Journal of Archaeology” 1864)

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was son of Nicholas Langton, and his wife Letitia Daniel, and was born in Kilkenny, August 2, 1583, and studied at the Irish College, Salamanca, where he was ordained priest by July 20, 1620. He was admitted to the Society in the Province of Toledo, April 27, 1622.

After a year in the Novitiate at Madrid, he was sent to the College at Huete, apparently for health reasons, but in November 1625 was back in Salamanca at the Royal College, to finish his studies.

Correspondence between the General and Father Richard Conway shows that Father Langton was to be sent eventually to the Irish Mission. Five years later, the General asked the Provincial of Toledo to send Father Langton to Ireland, but it was impossible to establish whether he was still alive when permission arrived for him to return to his country.

In 1628 he had been teaching Humanities in his Province’s College of San Clemente, and after that his name disappears from the catalogi.

Born: 02 February 1622, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo
Entered: 15 May 1652, Madrid Spain - Toletanae Province (TOLE)
Ordained: Salamanca, Spain - pre Entry
Final Vows: 15 August 1663
Died: 28 May 1695, Imperial College, Madrid, Spain - Toletanae Province (TOLE)

Alias Henriquez

1655 CAT Teaching Grammar at Huete, Cuenca, Spain TOLE

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Wote a Latin Grammar and a Latin-Spanish Dictionary; Professor of “Belles-Lettres” for twenty-five years.
1670 Father De Burgo asked Father General to send him to the Irish Mission

◆ Fr Francis Finegan SJ :
Had studied at Irish College Salamanca where he was Ordained before Ent 15 May 1652 TOLE
After First Vows he was sent to do further studies and then teach Grammar at Huete. He was seen to be a good teacher and so also appointed in the same city to teach the Scholastics
1670-1680 Sent to teach Scholastics at the Juniorate at Villarejo
In 1670 there was correspondence between the General and the Irish Mission Superior to have him sent to Ireland, but the negotiations came to nothing.
1680 On his retirement from teaching he was sent as Operarius at Church of the Imperial College, Madrid, where he died 27 May 1695

Born: 1604, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 1620, Madrid, Spain (TOLE)
Ordained: 1628, Murcia, Spain

Left Society of Jesus: 27 August 1643

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1620 x 2

◆ Old/15 (1) Ent 1620 x 2, with one RIP after 1636

◆ Old/16 has : “P John White”; DOB 1603 Clonmel; Ent 1620 Toledo; RIP 1640 & 1646

◆ Old/17 has “White” Dimissi 27/08/1643 (HIB)

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “White or Devictus”; DOB 1603 Lismore Dioc; Ent “Devictus” 1620 Madrid - called “Ionn Vitus” TOLE;
1625 At Murcia
1633 Age 33 Soc 13 at Huerte College TOLE teaching Grammar and Operarius. Very good talent.

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born in Clonmel in 1604, and he entered the Society in the Province of Toledo, 1620.

After his Noviceship, which he made at Madrid, he was sent to the College of Murcia for his ecclesiastical studies, and was ordained Priest c 1628.

He remained in Spain until 1634, and was employed as Operarius successively at Huete and Ocaña, and was reported to be in poor health.

On his return to Ireland he exercised his ministry in or near Clonmel, where he taught school for some time. But, over the next eight or nine years, Father White repeatedly asked to leave the Society for reasons of health.

He finally left the Society August 27, 1643.

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DOB 1604 Clonmel; Ent 1620 Madrid; Ord c 1628 Murcia; LEFT 27/08/1643

1622-1628 After First Vows he was sent to Murcia for studies and he was ordained there c 1628
1628-1634 He was sent as Operarius to Huete and Ocaña and reported to be in poor health
1634 He was sent to Ireland and Clonmel and repeatly asked permission to leave the Society for reasons of health. He finally left the Society 27/08/1643

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
WHITE, JOHN, Father (Irish), a native of Clonmel, born 1603 ; entered the Society 1620 ; in or about the year 1634, he was in the Province of Toledo. (Inish Ecclesiastical Record.) He is mentioned in a letter of Father Robert Nugent, dated from Ireland, October 1, 1640. (Oliver, as above.) He died between 1640 and 1646. (Hogan's list.)