Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Lery, Thomas, 1655-, Jesuit Priest
Parallel form(s) of name
- Thomas Leary
- Thomas Lereo
- Thomas Leres
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1655-
History
Born: 1655, Cashel, County Tipperary
Entered: 06 June 1674, Seville, Spain - Baetica Province (BAE)
Ordained: 1681, Spain
Left Society of Jesus: 1684 - Re-entered 1689
◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1673
◆ Old/15 (1) has Ent 1673 RIP after 1684
◆ CATSJ I-Y has “Lereo”; DOB 1653 Cashel; Ent 1673
1684 At Granada
◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1674 BAE Cat
“Thomas Leres”
Entered 06/06/1674
Irish College Seville
1675 BAE Cat
“Thomas Lereo”
Aged 20
In Society 10 months
Novitiate Seville
1678 BAE Cat
Collegium Granada
“Thomas Lereo”
Aged 23
In Society 4 (First Vows, Novitiate 07/06/1676)
Studied Philosophy 3; Theology 1
1680 BAE Cat
Collegium Granada
“Thomas Lereo”
Aged 26 Irish
In Society 7 (First Vows, Novitiate 07/06/1676)
Studied Philosophy 3; Theology 1
Subdiaconate 21/12/1680 DD F Alfonso de Salizanes Cordoba
1684 BAE Cat
Collegium Granada
“Thomas Lereo”
Aged 31 Cashel
Society 11
Out of Province
◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was a nephew of Thomas Lery SJ, was born at Cashel in 1655 and had already entered on his ecclesiastical studies at Santiago and Salamanca before he was received into then Society at Seville, June 6, 1674.
After his Noviceship he was sent to the College of Granada to resume his studies, and was ordained subdeacon, December 1680 at Cordoba, whither he had been transferred to finish his Theology. He was ordained Priest by 1681.
He returned to Granada, where for the next two or three years he taught Humanities and exercised the ministry of Preaching.
Sometime in 1687 he returned to Ireland, without the authorisation of either his Spanish Superiors or theSuperior of the Mission, and the General informed the latter thatFather Lery was ipso facto dismissed from the Society. Both uncle and nephew appealed against this decision, but the General remained adamant.
Father Lery, however, appealed over the next two years to be taken back into the Society, and at last the General relented. On August 27, 1689, the Superior of the Mission was instructed to re-admit Father Lery, provided he could get him adopted by some Provincial, and kept for a few months in a Novitiate. But it is impossible to trace the career of Father Lery after that date.