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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Johnson, Henry, c 1606, former Jesuit Priest
Parallel form(s) of name
- Gionsono
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Description area
Dates of existence
1606-
History
Born: c1606, Ireland
Entered: 11 June 1626, St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM)
Ordained: 1637,
Left Society of Jesus: 04 January 1646
◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1626
◆ Old/15 (1) has on one copy (13) one Ent 11/06/1626 RIP after 1645
◆ Old/17 has “Gionsono” Ent 11/06/1626 St Andrea
◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 1608 Irish; Ent 1626 or 1629 St Andrea;
1636 at Roman College Studying Philosophy 3 years, Theology 2 years and taught Grammer - talented teacher
1639 At Perugia College teaching Humanities
1642-1645 At Loreto College (College Illyricum) - talent is excellent, fit for any post except Superior as is in delicate health
1678 Lived in Dublin, a native of the northern parts of Ireland (Fr N Netterville states that he knew him)
1698 Is said to be living in March at Mr Synnott’s in Merchant’s Quay Dublin.
◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Henry Johnson 21
11 June 1626 Entered St Andrea Rome
◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Ireland c 1606 and was brought to Europe while still a child and educated there. He entered the Society at Rome, June 11, 1626
After his Noviceship he studied Philosophy for three years at the Roman College, and was then sent for a short period of Regency to the College of Macerata. He resumed his ecclesiastical studies at the Roman College, 1633, and was ordained priest c 1637. He was then sent to teach Humanities at the College of Perugia, where he remained until 1641 when he went to Florence to make his Tertianship. On the completion of the latter he was assigned to the Illyrian College at Loreto.
Ever snce 1633, Johnson had been in poor health. Six years later he succeeded to a family inheritence and was alloed by the General to make an act of renunciation in favour of his mother. His request to the General to make the act of renunciation with reversion to himself was refused. After November 1643, a frequent correspondence shows that Johnson again was in feeble health and wavering in his vocation. He was persuaded to stay in the Society, bit finally left January 4, 1646.
Some years earlier, Father Robert Nugent was intetested in Johnson’s joining the irish Misison. The General was also of the opinion that his health might improve in Ireland. Johnson, however, no longer knew either Irish or English and represented to the General that he could not hope to exercise a fruitful ministry there, much less hide the fact that he was a foreigner in his native country.