Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Lee, John, 1584-, former Jesuit Priest of the Castellanae Province
Parallel form(s) of name
- John Lea
- John St leger
- John De Lega
- John De Lea
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
1583-
History
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.