Born: 1618, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 May 1646, St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM)
Ordained: ??
Died post 1670

Left Society of Jesus: 1658

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
BOURGOYNE, WILLIAM All that I discover of this Father is that he was born in 1618; that in 1640 he was teaching Grammar at Waterford, and that he deserved the character of “vir prudentiae vere Religiosae”.

◆ CATSJ A-H has Irish; DOB 1618 Ossory; Ent St Andrea Rome 07/05/1646 or Aug; RIP after 1653 (poss 18/01/1653)
Ordained before entry ?? having studied at Alcala; 1st Vows at Kilkenny 26/07/1648 - was accused of turpitude at Kilkenny!;
Read 4 years of Theology
1649 was in Waterford - Teacher, Confessor, Preacher and Missionary
Names mentioned in ANG Cat 1651 as one who might be Superior of Irish Seminary in Spain, being then in 4th year Theology at Alcala

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1618 Ossory; Ent 1646 Rome; RIP post 1650

1649 At Waterford; A very religious man; He had studied at Alcalá (cf Foley’s Collectanea)

In pen beside entry
Ent Rome, 25/07/1643; RIP c 1674 at Leghorn (ARSI)

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Father William Bergin 33 all theology
07 May 1646 Entered St Andrea Rome

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
Son of William Bergin and Honora O’Connor, was born in Kilkenny and entered the Society at Rome, May 7, 1646 when he was already a priest. He had been educated at the Irish College in Rome.

He returned to Iereland after his Noviceship and was teaching in Waterford at the time of Father Verdier;s Visitation of the Mission, 1649.

Under the Cromwellian regime he was banished to Spain, 1652, but left the Society in the Province of Andalusia, 1658.

Afterwards, according to Father Stephen Rice, Father Bergin:-

 “came to Leghorn in Italy, where for many years he lived, known for his praiseworthy life and spending himself for the conversion of English heretics who came there to trade. He died there a few years ago”.

Father Roice wrote this in 1678.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
BERGIN, WILLIAM, Father (Irish), a native of Ossory, born ....; entered the Society 1646 in Rome, and was sent a novice to the Irish Mission, where he took bis vows as a scholastic in 1648. Made two years philosophy and four of scholastic theology. Knew Italian, Irish, English, and Latin Taught humanities for onc year; soon afterwards was a preacher, missioner, and confessor. (Irish Catalogue for 1650 in Archives, Rome.)

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
BOURGOYNE, WILLIAM, Father (Irish), was born 1618. In 1649 he was teaching grammar at Waterford. A truly prudent and religious man. (Oliver, Irish Section, from Stonyhurst MSS.)

Born: 07 November 1660, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 28 September 1680, Paris, France (FRA)
Ordained: ?
Died: post 1686,

Left Society of Jesus: 24 September 1686

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1681 FRA Cat
Novitiate Paris
“Hugo Bolger”
Born 07/11/1660 Kilkenny
Entered 28/09/1680 Paris
Studying Philosophy 2

1685 FRA Cat
Collegium Hesdin
“Hugo Bolger”
Born 20/03/1659 Kilkenny, Ossory Diocese
Entered 29/09/1681 Paris
Studying Philosophy 1; Teaching Humanities 2

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: 13 October 1928, Mill Island, Callan, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 September 1946, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 28 July 1960, Milltown Park, Dublin
Final Vows: 02 February 1963, Milltown Park, Dublin
Died: 09 February 2003, Tioga Drive, Land O’ Lakes, Florida, USA

Left Society of Jesus: 09 April 1976

Father was a Veterinary Surgeon

Fourth in a family of eight with six brothers and one sister.

Early education at a Convent school and a Christian Brothers school in Callan he went to Clongowes Wood College SJ for six years.

by 1975 at Xavier New York NY, USA (NEB) studying

Address 2000 & 1991: Tioga Drive, Land O’ Lakes, Florida, USA & Mountain Farm Court, Tampa, FL, USA

Born: 17 October 1789, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 14 August 1817, White Marsh MD, USA - Marylandiae-Neo Eboracensis Province (MARNEB)
Ordained: 1830,

Left Society of Jesus: 1839

1817 Entered: White Marsh MD, USA Novice
1820-1824 Georgetown MD, USA Philosophy
1825-1826 Georgetown MD, USA Regency
1826-1829 Washington Seminary MD, USA Regency
1830 Ordained
1830-1835 Georgetown MD, USA Prof Rhet, Doc, Praef Stud
1836 White Marsh MD, USA Oper
1837-1838 Alexandria MD, USA Doc at St Joannes
1839 Newtown MD, USA Oper

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: 06 July 1820, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Entered: 23 September 1846, Toulouse, France - Lugdunensis Province (LUGD)
Ordained: 1857

Left Society of Jesus: 31 October 1866

Seems to have left the Society 31/109/1866. Then he reappears in the Roman (ROM), Catalogue with the same date of birth and a new Entry Date 30/09/1868 working in Brasil. I can find no sign of him in Catalogi for 1868-1869. He disaapears in 1872.

1846-1848: Toulouse. France (LUGD), Novitiate
1848-1849: ?
1850-1854: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, Regency
1854-1855: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1856-1857: Maastricht College, Limburg, Netherlands (NER), Theology
1857-1858: St Ignatius, North Frederick Street, Dublin, Theology
1858-1859: Belvedere College SJ, Dublin, Minister, Teaching
1859-1860: St Beuno’s, St Asaph, Flintshire, Wales (ANG), Teaching Theology
1860-1861: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, Teaching
1861-1862: Drongen, Belgium (BELG), Tertianship
1862-1863: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, Spiritual Father, Teaching
1863-1864: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Procurator
1864-1866: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, Curate

1866-1869: ?? Left and reentered ?? 30/09/1868

1869-1871: St Francis Xavier College, Pernambuco, Brasil
1871-1872: Ituano College, Sao Paulo, Brasil, Teaching

Born: 1609, County Kilkenny (Ossory)
Entered: 09 December 1628, Back Lane, Dublin
Ordained: 1637,
Died: July 1649, Galway City, County Galway

Left Society of Jesus: 02 August 1640

Did he die in July 1649 or was he Dismissed as suggested by Finegan 02/08/1649??

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born in Ossory in 1609, and entered the Society at the shortlived Dublin Novitiate on December 9, 1628. Before his admission, he had studied Humanities under secular Masters.

After his first religious profession he was sent to Douai for his course of Philosophy, and then spent an extra years studying Humanities at Tournai. he made his Theological studies in the Sicilian Province, at the College of Palermo, where he was ordained priest in 1637. After his Tertianship at Spoleto, he returned to Ireland in June 1638.

No account of his early years on the Mission has survived. His relations with his Anglo-Irish Superiors of their Consultors, and correspondence with Rome, suggested that he was vacillating in his vocation to the Society. Similar reports had been sent to Rome with regard to Father O’Carolan, but he had denied them. Verdier, however, during his Visitation, met O’Carroll, and reported of him:- that he was teaching Philosophy in Galway, and was now twenty-two years in the Society, but not yet professed; he was a man of not very robust health, but of a happy disposition;

Why his profession has been put off is not very clear to me. he is a good man and of excellent ability. His Superior, Father Moore, urges insistently, that he should be advanced to profession. He comes of a noble family of Old Irish stock. His feelings were on the side of the Nuncio, but he did not desire to express his mind against the opinion of the Superior of the Mission (Malone)”.

By the time Verdier’s report reached Rome, the General was dead, and Malone, on August 2, expelled Father O’Carroll from the Society, alleging that he had refused to renew his simple Vows. The Vicar-General at Rome, who had apparently not seen Verdier’s report on O’Carroll, endorsed Malone’s action. Neither the Vicar-General nor the new General seem ever to have see Verdier’s Report of the Irish Mission. Otherwise it is impossible to explainwhy Malone was actually nominated for a second period of office.

No details of Father O’Carroll’s later life have come down to us.

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
CARROLL, CHARLES. “Ex familia nobili antiquorum Hibernorum”, as Pere Verdier expresses it in his Report of the 24th of June, 1649. He was then in Galway, aged 40, Soc. 22. When he died I cannot discover.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
CARROLL, CHARLES, Father (Irish), born 1609; entered the Society 1627. Père Verdier, the Visitor, mentions him in his report June 24, 1649, as then in Galway and of a noble and ancient Irish family, (Oliver, Irish Section, from Stonyhurst MISS.)

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent c1629
same as Charles Carroll Ent 07/12/1628??

◆ Old/15 (1) has “Charles Carroll” corrected to “O’Carroll” on one (13) Ent 07/12/1628 corrected to 09/12/1628 RIP 1648-9
◆ Old/15 (1) has “Charles O’Carroll” Ent c 1679

◆ Old/16 has : “P Charles O’Carroll”; DOB 1606 or 1609; Ent 1627 or 1629; RIP Jul 1649 Ireland

◆ CATSJ A-H has DOB Munster; Ent 09/12/1628 Tournai;
Not in 1636 CAT
1649 Fr Verdier mentions him as being in Galway and of a noble family

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB Ossory 1606/1609; Ent 1627/1629.

Passed his Ad Grad and died c 1649 Ireland.

On the Irish Mission from 1638; Taught Philosophy; Is described as a worthy and witty man; of an ancient noble family (cf CAT Defuncti in Morris’ “Excerpta”)

◆ Interfuse No 80 : Spring 1995
“THE PROVINCE OF CONNACHT” BEFORE CROMWELL

Stephen Redmond

This year the Province and especially the Galway companions celebrate three and a half centuries teaching in that famous city. But the Jesuit presence goes back even further. Here is some account of “the Province of Connacht” from very early in the seventeenth century to 1649, It is taken from transcripts of originals made by the great John MacErlean (d. 1950) who contributed so immensely to the record of our history.........

The most graphic and evocative picture of Galway Jesuits in pre Cromwell days is given by Fr Mercure Verdier of the Province of Aquitaine. On the authority of Fr. General Carafa he made an exhaustive visit of the Mission because of the impact on Irish Jesuits of the conflict between the papal nuncio Rinuccini and the Supreme Council of the Catholic Confederation.

At Galway there are nine priests........

P. Charles Carroll..... of pretty affable temperament. I could not see why his final vows should be deferred; P. Malone says that he wavered in his vocation. He is a good man of excellent capacity. P. Moore strongly urges his profession. He is of a noble Old Irish family. He favoured the Nuncio but did not wish to express his mind against the view of the superior of the mission.

Born: Cork
Entered: 25 March 1647, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Ordained: 1655, Bordeaux, France
Died: post 1659

Left Society of Jesus: 20 March 1660

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
DUGAN, DANIEL, began hia Noviceship at Kilkenny, which he fnished at Galway, His master of Notices, F, John Young, sent him to the Province of Aquitaine to complete his studies. I meet him at Rochelle in June, 1659, when all traces escape me.

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as “O’Dougan” Ent 25/03/1647
◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1648

◆ Old/15 (1) has “O’Dougan” on one and “O’Doughan” on another Ent 25/03/1647 RIP after 1659
◆ Old/15 (1) has “Dugan” Ent 1648

◆ Old/16 has : “C Daniel Dugan”; DOB Cork; Ent 1648 Kilkenny; Coad temp; RIP post 1659

◆ Old/17 has “Dougan” Dimissi 08/10/1689 (AQUIT)

◆ CATSJ A-H has “Fr Daniel Dugan or O’Dugan or O’Dougan” Irish Dioc of Cork; Ent 25/03/1647 Kilkenny;
1650-1653 Studied Theology at Bordeaux AQUIT
1653-1654 Studied Theology at Poitiers
1654-1655 Teaching Grammar at Fontenoy AQUIT
1655-1657 teaching Grammar at La Rochelle
1657-1658 At Angoulême College destined to teach Philosophy at Dieppe
1658-1660 Teaching Philosophy at Dieppe

1660 Dimissus

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Dugan

DOB Cork; Ent 1648 Kilkenny; RIP post 1659

1650 In AQUIT
1659 At La Rochelle, when Father Tyrry asked to have him sent to him in Cork.

◆ Fr Francis Finegan Notes
O’Duigin (in France called O’Dougan)

DOB 1624/28 Kilkenny; Ent 25/03/1647 Kilkenny; Ord 1656 Bordeaux; LEFT 20/03/1660

Had studied Philosophy before Ent 25/03/1647 Kilkenny, probably with the Jesuits there

1649-1655 After First Vows he was sent to Bordeaux for Theology and was Ordained there 1655
1655-1657 Sent to teach Philosophy at La Rochelle
1657 He was sent to a Chair in Philosophy at Angoulême and at around the same time he volunteered for the Chinese Mission. He was told that he would need approval from the AQUIT Provincial
1659 The General was informed that O’Duigin was needed for the Irish Mission. At this time he was in some difficulties with his Superiors, and he travelled to Dieppe and crossed over to England. For his refusal to return to AQUIT, he was Dismissed 20/03/1660

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
DUGAN. DANIEL Father (Irish). commenced his noviceship at Kilkenny and finished it at Galway His Master of Novices was Father John Young. He completed his studies at Aquitaine, and was at La Rochelle in June, 1659. (Oliver, from Stonyhurst MSS.)

Born: 05 May 1929, Kill, Castlecomer, County Kilkenny
Entered: 07 September 1953, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 29 July 1965, Milltown Park, Dublin
Died: 18 August 2013, Mercy Retirement Center in Oakland, CA, USA

Left Society of Jesus: 03 October 1968

Parents William and Eileen (O’Toole) were National Teachers. Family lived at St Alphonsus' Road, Drumcondra. Mother died in 1968

Oldest of two boys with three sisters.

Early education at Clogh NS, County Kilkenny and then with the Christian Brothers in Carlow.

After school he went into Pharmacy for 5.5 years, qualifying as an Assistant in 1953.

Baptised at St Patrick’s, Clogh, County Kilkenny, 05/05/1929
Confirmed at St Patrick’s, Clogh, County Kilkenny, by Dr Collier of Ossory, 14/04/1941

Left 05/10/1968, entered Capuchin’s and took vows in 04/10/1969. Known as “Father James”.

1953-1955: St Mary's, Emo, Novitiate
1955-1959: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1959-1961: Belvedere College SJ, Regency
1961-1962: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Regency
1962-1966: Milltown Park, Theology
1966-1967: Rathfarnham Castle, Tertianship
1967-1968: St Mary’s, Choma, Zambia
1968: On supply at the Jesuit Church of Sacred Heart, Lauriston Street, Edinburgh, and then came to Manresa House Dollymount.

After leaving and taking Vows in the Capuchins, he had worked at St Brendan’s Hospital and was living and working at St Mary of the Angels, Church Street.

Address 2000: Old Mission Santa Ines, Mission Drive, Solvang, CA, USA

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/edward-o-keefe-obituary?id=9716767

Edward O'Keefe Obituary
Fr Edward O'Keefe
Was born on May 5, 1929 in Kill, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, the son of William O'Keefe and Eileen O'Toole. He entered the Jesuit Order and made first profession at Emo, Port Arlington, Ireland in 1955. He was ordained at Milltown Park, Dublin in 1965 and was sent to the Jesuit Mission at Zambia Africa in 1967. His first contact with the Capuchins came on the banks of the Zambezi River in Central Africa. He was welcomed by the Capuchins and had frequent contact with them during the year. As a result he felt drawn to join the Capuchins; and so he did in the following year of 1968. He returned to Ireland and made his novitiate year. In 1969 he was solemnly professed and remained in Ireland as a Chaplain and ministering in giving parish missions and retreats.

In 1974 he came to Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame, CA as associate pastor.

From 1974 to 1981 he was assigned as a hospital chaplain in Fresno, CA. He also was actively involved in Marriage and Engaged Encounter retreats and the Focolare movement.

In 1981 he was associate pastor in Hermiston, Oregon.

In 1985 to 1987 he was associate pastor at St Francis Parish in Los Angeles and from 1988 to 1991 was associate pastor at St Francis of Assisi Parish in Bend, OR.

From 1991 to 1998 he was Pastor at St Lawrence of Brindisi Parish Watts, Los Angeles

1999 to 2000 he was associate pastor at Old Mission Santa Ines in Solvang, CA.

In 2000, he once again felt called to go out into the mission field. This time he went to our Mexico mission in Monterrey as guardian of the student community.

In 2010, it became obvious that Fr Ed was rapidly declining in health with Alzheimer's disease and he retired to Mercy Care and Retirement Center in Oakland, CA. After ministering so many years in so many different places Fr. Ed could no longer minister to others but in his silent prayer.

In June of 2013 Fr. Ed began to lose weight and in August he could barely eat anything. Fr. Ed died at 12:10 pm in the afternoon of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother at Mercy Retirement Center in Oakland, CA. He was 84 years old.

He is survived by his sister Noreen O'Keefe and his brother Gerard O'Keefe and his sister Frances Glavin.

His funeral arrangements are as follows: Rosary at 7:30 pm at Old Mission Santa Ines in Solvang, CA on August 18, 2013 and Funeral Mass at 11 am also at Old Mission Santa Ines on August 19, 2013. Burial following the Mass at San Lorenzo Friary in Santa Ynez, CA.

Born: 24 Augsut 1626, Jerpoint, County Kilkenny
Entered: 11 November 1647, Kilkenny City, County Kilkenny
Ordained: 13 March 1655,

Left Society of Jesus: 1674

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
TOBIN, JAMES, was an edifying Novice at Kilkenny in 1649. On the following year he was drafted with his brethren through the houses of the Society on the continent, where he vanishes from my pursuit.

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Thomas”;
“Societatis Jesus Kilkenny” in title page of Officium Corporis printed in 1659, now in the Library of Black Abbey, Kilkenny (a loose note of Hogan)

◆ CATSJ I-Y has “James”; DOB 24/08/1626 Jerpoint; Ent 11/11/1647 Kilkenny Age 24;
Studied 2 years Philosophy before Ent
1666 CAT Living at Kilkenny. Preacher, Catechising, Administering the Sacraments. Teaches a few. Was on Mission in Scotland

“Between 08/09/1661 and 22/02/1665 or 1666 he signed a petition for the appointment of Rev James Cleere as Bishop of Ossory” (Arch HIB VI p56

LEFT

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 24/08/1626 Jerpoint; Ent 11/11/1647 Kilkenny; LEFT 1674

On the Scottish Mission for three years.

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born at Jerpoint, Kilkenny, August 24, 1626, and studied at the Jesuit College, Kilkenny, and having completed Philosophy, entered the Society in the Novitiate recently established there.

After his Noviceship he was sent to Louvain for his Theological studies, 1651-1655, and was ordained Priest March 13, 1655.

He was designated for the Mission in Scotland, but does not seem to have arrived there until 1658, when, with three other Jesuits, he was working in the north near the Orkney Islands.

By January 1669, however, he was, apparently, once more in Flanders, as the General instructed the Flemish Provincial to send Tobin back to Ireland - a case that is probably unique in the history of the Irish Jesuits down to the Suppression.

Hem returned to Ireland about 1662, and was stationed at Kilkenny. he chafed under the obligation of religious poverty, and eventually left the Society in the winter 1673/1674.

There is some evidence that he was still living in 1692.

◆ Interfuse No 81 : Summer 1995
BACKS TO THE SEA : A LETTER FROM GALWAY 1651 BY ROBERT NUGENT

Stephen Redmond

Robert Nugent was one of the most remarkable members of the third Irish Jesuit mission 1598-1773. He became its superior in 1626/27 and ruled it with vigour and panache until 1646. He shaped it towards provincial status and led it in its commitment to the Catholic Confederation. In 1651 he took the helm again, this time as acting superior, in vastly changed circumstances. The Cromwellians controlled most of the country and were pushing west. With most communities dispersed, much of the mission (and a still active element of the former Confederation) retreated before them: Galway became a city of refuge and of contact with hoped-for allies, backs were to the sea.

The letter given here conveys something of the situation and the man. It was written to John Young who had been novice-master at Kilkenny and had gone to Rome. Apart from minimal editing it comes straight from the excellent MacErlean transcript in our archives. The original is in the Irish College, Rome.

Galwaie die 10ma. Maii 1651

Now and no sooner I understood of your safe laundinge at St. Mallos, This I receaved from the maister of your owne shipp John, who came hither. God be praised, you escaped those daungers..........

Since your parting, my Lord Fernes went soone avaie for Burdeaux; also Rice and Kuirke went within 3 daies after to Holland; I recommended them to F. Montmorencie. Tobin and Carberie alsoe went for Holland or Ostend circa 13am. diem nostri Aprilis; I recommended them to Fr. Montmorencie and to F. Quin and to your Reverence to be provided, till directions come from Picolhomini and Rome...........

Notes:
Piccolomini was the new General. Montmorencie was a former Vicar-General of the Society. Quin, another hero of the third mission, was to serve two stints as its superior. Rice, Quirke, Tobin, Carbery and Dillon were scholastics. Scarampi was Rinucinni's predecessor as papal envoy in Ireland.