Born: 1586, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 1605, Évora, Portugal - Lusitaniae Province (LUS)
Died: 1609-1619
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◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/16 has : “P Robert Byrne”; DOB 1586 Dublin; Ent 1605 Portugal; RIP 1609 & 1619

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1586 Dublin; Ent 1605 Portugal; RIP 1609-1617

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Dublin, c September 1587, studied a short time at the Irish College, Lisbon, before he entered the Society in that city, 1605, and made his Noviceship at Évora. He studied Philosophy for four years at Coimbra, and by 1614 had done two years of Theology, and was then in poor health at the Irish College, Lisbon.

Conflicting entries in the catalogi of that year make it impossible to determine whether or not he was already a priest, and lacunae in the catalogi for succeeding years also make it impossible to assign the date of his death.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
BIRNE, ROBERT (Irish); entered the Society 1605. (Hogan's Ibernia, p. 429.)

Born: 1603, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: April 1620, Lisbon, Portugal - Lusitaniae Province (LUS)
Died: 1628, Évora, Portugal
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◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as “da Cruz” Ent 1620

◆ Old/15 (1) has “da Cruz” Ent 1620, RIP 1628

◆ CATSJ A-H has “da Cruz or Cruise”; DOB c 1602 Dublin; Ent November 1620 Lisbon;
1625 At Coimbra 2nd course of Arts
1628 Teacher of Latin at Évora

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was born in Dublin, 1603, and entered the Society at Lisbon, April 1620.

After his Noviceship he was sent to Évora for his Philosophy course, after which he was appointed to make his regency in the Jesuit school of that town, where he taught Latin.

His name disappears from the records after 1628

Born: Ireland
Entered: 1620, Portugal (LUS)
Ordained:
Died: post 1624, Lisbon, Portugal
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◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1620

◆ Old/16 has : “Christopher Field”; DOB Ireland; Ent 1620 Portugal; RIP post 1624 Lisbon

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB Ireland; Ent 1620 Portugal; RIP post 1624

1624 In Lisbon studying

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
FIELD, CHRISTOPHER The only mention that 1 find of him is in a letter of his Superior, F. Thomas Lawndy, dated 6th of March, 1624. He appears to have been then a Scholastic.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
FIELD, CHRISTOPHER, Scholastic (Irish), is named in a letter of Father Lawndry, the Superior, March 6, 1624 (Oliver, from Stonyhurst MSS.)