Born: 1583, County Waterford / Oporto, Portugal
Entered: 20 April 1599, Santiago de Compostella, Spain - Castellanae Province (CAST)

Left Society of Jesus: 04 January 1611

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as “Lea” Ent 1598
◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as “Lea” Ent 1599 and there is one earlier as Ent 1598

◆ Old/15 (1) has “John St Leger” in pencil and Ent 1598-9
◆ Old/15 (1) has a “John Lee” Ent 1599

◆ Old/16 has : “P John Lee”; DOB 1583 Kilkenny; Ent 1598 Santiago; RIP between 1609 and 1617

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “De Lega (Lea?)”; DOB Waterford;
In Hogan’s hand : John Lee 1599, before 1627
1606 John De Lega At Valladolid College age 23 in Soc 7
1627 John De Lea in 3rd year Theology at Seville

In CAT Chron p11 there is a John Lee of Kilkenny : Is it he who was a fellow Novice of Dominic Collins p149

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB Kilkenny 1583; Ent 1598 Compostella’ RIP 1609-1917

Fellow Novice with Richard Walshe and Dominic Collins at Santiago de Compostella

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
John de Lega (Lea?) 16 native of Waterdord Oporto in Portrugal, of Irish parents from Waterford -
Studied Grammar for three years
20 April 1599 Entered CAST

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
LEE, JOHN, Father (Irish), son of Walter Lee, of Kilkenny ; born in Kilkenny 1583; entered the Society 1598 (Father Hogan's list), and was fellow-novice at St. James', Compostella, with Father Richard Walshe and Brother Dominic Collins the martyr. (See State Paper; Father Hogan's Ibernia; D. Collins.) He died between 1609 and 1617. (Hogan's list.)

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

John Lea

He was born in 1583, and entered the Society in the Province of Castille, April 20, 1599. His parents eere from the city of Waterford, but it is uncertain whether he was born there or in Oporto, whither his parents had migrated.

After his Noviceship he was sent to the Jesuit College of Santiago for his Philosophical studies, but entered on his Theological studies at the College of St Ambrose, Valladolid.

His career cannot be traced in the absence of contemporary Catalogi after 1607, when he was in his third year of Theology. Correspondence however, of 1608-1610, indicates that he was wavering in his vocation as his parents were in want and in need of his help. The letters also refer to him as El hermano Juan showing that he had not been ordained Priest. He was now living at Salamanca in 1610, but some months later was in Burgos.

The General finally, January 4, 1611, allowed him to leave the Society.

Born: 1601,New Ross, County Wexford
Entered: 05 January 1617, Villagarcía, Galicia, Spain - Castellanae Province (CAST)
Ordained: c 1627

Left Society of Jesus: 08 July 1631

◆ CATSJ A-H has DOB Cashel
1625 at Salamanca
1625 at Seville 2nd year Theology
1628 a native of Cashel is Minister and Operarius or Irish College Seville
John Conway of Ross in Villagarcía 1301, 1617, 1619
John Conbeus (no 2) of Ross DOB 1598 at Salamanca 1621
John Conbeus of Ross in College of Leon 1628
1637 CAT at ARSI proficient in letters, judgement, experience and prudence mediocre

also DOB 1600 Cashel; Ent 1620; 1625 at Seville Theology; 13628 at Seville Minister and Operarius
also DOB 1598 Ross Diocese; Ent 1617; 1619 at Villagarcía; 1625 at Salamanca

Much confusion of John Conways here - there are 4 : 3 priests and 1 brother the confusions is with the priests

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
CONNY,---- was Superior of the Seminary at Salamanca in the summer of 1607

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1600 New Ross; Ent 1617 or in pen 05/01/1617 Spain; RIP 08/10/1689 Ghent (though this could be William RIP 1689??)

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
John Conway of New Ross, dioc of Ferns, 16
Son of Son of Thomas Conway and Margaret de Berox - Devereux (also Catalina da Crox - Cruise?)
05 January 1617 Entered CAST

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born at New Ross, 1601, and entered the Society in the Province of Castille, January 5, 1617. He was the son of Thomas Conway (brother of Father Richard SJ - RIP 1626) and his wife Margaret Devereux.

After his Noviceship at Villagarcia, he studied Philosophy at Compostella and Theology at the Royal College, Salamanca, where he was ordained Priest, c 1627,

The following year he was stationed at Oviedo as Operarius.

He left the Society July 8, 1631.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
CONNY,- Father, (Irish), was Rector of the Irish College of Salamanca in the autumn of 1607.

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.)

Born: 1604, Kilmacduagh, County Galway
Entered: 1621, Seville, Spain (Baetica Province (BAE)
Ordained: 1630, Córdoba, Spain

Left Society of Jesus: 21 May 1644 from Cadiz, Spain

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
Born in Galway, 1604, was received into the Society at the Novitiate of Seville, 1622. He studied Philosophy and Theology at Córdoba, where he was ordained priest, 1630.

On the completion of his studies he was appointed Minister at the Irish College, Seville, where he remained for two years, 1631-1633. He spent the following year at Madrid and returned to Ireland, 1634.

Appointed to the Mission in Connaught, he spent seven years there and then he returned to his Province of Andalusia. He was again assigned to the Irish College, Seville, and two years later as operarius to Cadiz, where he left the Society in 1644.