Born: Spain
Entered: 1546, San Andrea, Rome, Italy
Ordained: pre Entry

Left Society of Jesus: 1547-8

Catalogus Defuncti 1641-1740 has Franciscus Zapata RIP 29/01/1692 Madrid (HS49 83v Tolet)

◆ The English Jesuits 1550-1650 Thomas M McCoog SJ : Catholic Record Society 1994
PRIEST
Born Spain
Ordained before entry
Entered 1546 Rome
Dismissed late 1547-early 1548

He accompanied Bröet and Salmerón on their mission to Ireland

Born: 09 April 1747, Cornmarket, Dublin, County Dublin
Entered: 11 December 1764, San Andrea, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM)
Ordained: c 1778
Died c 1808, Leghorn (Livorno), Italy

Left Society of Jesus: 1773 Suppression of Society

In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent c 1762
In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 11/12/1764

◆ Old/15 (1) has Ent 1762
Old/15 (1) has 2 names later “James Connell” Ent 11/12/1764 RIP after 1772

◆ Old/16 has : “James O’Connell”; Ent c 1762; RIP prob 1808

◆ Old/17 has “Conell” Ent 11/12/1764 St Andrea

◆ CATSJ A-H has “Conell”; An Irishman; Ent 11 /12/1764 St Andrea;
1772 was in Rome 16/11/1772 (Irish College Rome Archives)
and

◆ CATSJ I-Y has has “O’Connell”; DOB 09/04/1747 Dublin; Ent 10/12/1764;
Studied 2 years Rehtoric and 2 Philosophy
1770 In Roman College
1773 In Roman College teaching Grammar. 1st year as Master. Was a Catechist in the Church and “Prieses Sodalert Primo”

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
Three Entries

O’Connell or Connell

DOB 09/04/1747; Ent c 1762 or 10/12/1764 Rome;

In Italy from c 1765. In a list of Professors at the Roman College he appears to be Professor there 1771-1773, wth the name given as O’Conell. Taught Grammar and was a Catechist. (ROM CAT 1772)

Father Thorpe, who knew him well says “Father Connell of the Roman College possesses excellent talents. He was Master of Humanities. He is now (1785) Secretary to Rinnuccini (later Cardinal), who duing several years has treated him with singular courtesy. He has serious thoughts of offering himself to the English Mission among his brethern”. This he did not do, being in Rome at the time of Father Thorpe’s death. (Oliver, Stonyhurst MSS)

1792 In Rome
1803 At Leghorn with his confrère Peter Plunket (cf Foley’s Collectanea)

In 1806 Father Strickland writes that Father O’Connell is perhaps dead.

◆ MacErlean Cat Miss HIB SJ 1670-1770
1767 ROM Cat
Novitiate Rome
“Jacobus Oconnell”
Born 09/04/1747 Dublin
Entered 10/12/1764
Novice

1770 ROM Cat
Collegiuium Romanum
“Jacobus Oconnell”
Born 09/04/1747 Dublin
Entered 10/12/1764
Studied Rhetoric 2, Philosophy 3

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
James Conell
11 December 1764 Entered St Andrea Rome

◆ George Oliver Towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members SJ
CONNELL, JAMES. From his own letter of the 22nd of May, 1792, I collect that this Irish Father “had for the last 27 years been in Italy”. F. Thorpe, who knew him well at Rome, and was fully competent to judge, says “F. Council, of the Roman Province, possesses excellent talents. He was Master of Humanities in the Roman College; and is now (1785) Chaplain and Secretary to the Prelate Rinuccini (afterwards Cardinal), who, during several years, has treated him with singular courtesy : he has serious thoughts of offering himself to the English Mission amongst our Brethren”. These thoughts however were abandoned : he was at Rome at the death of his friend, F. Thorpe, on the 12th of April, 1792. Eleven years later I find him at Leghorn.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
CONNELL, JAMES, Father (Irish), was of the Roman Province. He appears there as early as 1765. Father John Thorpe, the English agent at the Gesù, says (1785): "Father Connell, of the Roman Province, possesses excellent talents. He was teacher of humanities in the Roman College, and is now chaplain and secretary to the Prelate Rinnucini (afterwards Cardinal), who during several years has treated himn with singular courtesy. He has serious thoughts of offering himself to the English Mission among his brethren." This he did not do, being still in Rome, April 12, 1792, the date of Father Thorpe's death, and in 1803 he appears at Leghorn. (Oliver, from Stonyhurst Papers.)

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII - Appendix
CONNELL, JAMES, O', Father (Collectanea, p. 157), was born April 9, 1747 ; entered the Society in Rome, December 1o, 1764 ; in 1772 he was teaching the third class of grammar. He was also Catechist and Prefect of the Sodality in the Roman College. (Catalogue of Roman Province, 1772.)

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was son of William Connell, At the Sign of the White Cross, Cornmarket, was born April 9, 1747, and he entered the Society at Rome, December 10, 1764.

On the completion of his Noviceship, he studied Philosophy at the Roman College, 1768-1771, and for the next two years, until the Suppression of the Society, taught Humanities at the same College.

He was secularised at the Suppression, but continued his studies for the priesthood, and was eventually ordained Priest.

In 1785 he was Chaplain and Secretary to the future Cardinal Rinuccini, and remained in Rome until the following decade. he was living at Leghorn in 1803, with Father Peter Plunket, also an ex-Jesuit.

There is no record of the date or place of his death, but he was presumed to be dead in 1808.

An interesting letter of his of January 25, 1766 is in the archives at George’s Hill Convent, Dublin. In it the young O’Connell recommends to his father the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and recount the miraculous cure of a fellow-Novice at Sant Andrea.

He spelt his father’s surname “Connell”, although his own surname in the Roman Catalogi is given as Oconnell.

◆ Interfuse No 34 : September 1984
PORTRAIT FROM THE PAST : RICHARD O’CALLAGHAN

Roland Burke Savage

A finely-researched article on Father Richard Callaghan (1728 1807), a man described as one of the langely forgotten links between the original & the restored Society of Jesus in Ireland

In an earlier undated letter Concannon expressed amazement at the obstinacy of the old ex-Jesuit Callaghan. Dr Carpenter was too indulgent. Callaghan will now be pleased that the Society survives in the persons of the Abbé O'Connell and the Abbé Plunkett, both ex-Jesuits.

The next move is a letter from Propaganda to Archbishop Troy, dated 23 January 1808, stating that a letter is being sent to Stone about all the ex-Jesuit funds: the Arcbbishop is to forward to Rome all documents relevant to the same. Under the date 5 May 1808. We have a draft reply in which Plowden (the English Master of novices) makes two points succinotly: (1) three former Irish Jesuits are still alive: Fr. Betagh (Dublin), Peter Plunkett (Leghorn) and James Connell (Rome); (2) does the Archbishop wish “to invoke the spiritual power to invalidate the will of a British subject?” This last point is a reference to the statute of Praenunire. There is no evidence in the Dublin diocesan archives of a letter based on Plowden's draft. There is a letter from Concannon, dated 8 October 1808, upbraiding Troy for giving up the Callaghan affair and urging him to take the matter up again with Di Pietro.

Born: 10 December 1819, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 14 December 1851, St Andrea, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM)
Ordained: pre entry

Left Society of Jesus: 10 June 1858

“Farrell” in CAT to 1856

1851-1853: St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM), Novitiate
1853-1854: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Teaching
1854-1857: St Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street, Dublin, Curate
1857-1858: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Teaching

Born: 10 August 1584, Waterford City, County Waterford
Entered: 11 January 1605, St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM)

Left Society of Jesus: 1612

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1604
◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 02/01/1605

◆ Old/15 (1) has Ent 1604
◆ Old/15 (1) has in pencil on one copy Ent 02/01/1605, RIP after 1612-13

◆ Old/16 has : “P Laurence Lea”; DOB 1584 Waterford; Ent 1604; RIP 1609 & 1616 Germany

◆ Old/17 has Ent 11/01/1605 St Andrea

◆ CATSJ I-Y has DOB 10/08/1584 Waterford; Ent 11th or 02/01/1605 St Andrea;
Had studied Philosophy 1 year
1611 At Ingolstadt studying Theology (Ingolstadt CAT)
1612-1613 Sent from Germany to Belgium

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1584 Waterford; Ent 1604; RIP 1609-616

1609 In Upper Germany

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Laurence Lea 20
11 January 1605 Entered St Andrea (ROM)

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was son of John Lea and his wife Elizabeth Walshe, and he was born in Waterford, August 10, 1584. He entered the Irish College of Salamanca, June 26, 1603, and was received into the Society at Rome, January 11, 1905.

After his Noviceship he was sent to Upper Germany to continue his ecclesiastical studies, and was completing his fiirst year of Theology at Ingolstadt in 1611. He was then described as in poor health. In February 1612 he was at Antwerp, still unwell, but anxious to be ordained and to be sent to Ireland. A month later, the General advised the Provincial of Flanders that Lea should not be ordained because of his health, as he was unlikely to succeed afterwards in Ireland.

It seems he left the Society but became a Priest and eventually Vicar general of Waterford.

The General, on March 12, 1622, wrote to a Father Laurence Lea of Waterford, commending him for his work in promoting the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin. But it cannot be proved that the scholastic of Ingolstadt and Antwerp is identified with the future Vicar General.

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.

Born: 1555, Ardagh, County Longford
Entered: 25 March 1585, St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM)

Left Society of Jesus: 18 September 1585

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 25/03/1585

◆ Old/15 (1) LEFT for health 18/09/1785 (from Achonry Diocese)

◆ Old/16 has “P Miler Higgin”; DOB 1555 Ardagh; Ent 25/03/1585 Rome

◆ Old/17 has “Milero Higins” Ent 25/03/1585 St Andrea

◆ CATSJ A-H has DOB 1555 Ardagh; Ent 25/03/1585 Rome;

“Miler O’Higgins AB of Tuam was appointed Bishop 24/03/1586. Is referred to in O’Reilly’s Irish Writers.
Educated at Louvain

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Milar Higgin
25 March 1585 Entered St Andrea Rome

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
HIGGINS, MILES (Irish), entered the Society March 23. 1C86. (Hogan's Ibernia, p. 249.) Born in Ardagh, 1555. (Hogan's Irish list.)

Born: Ireland
Entered: 11 September 1561, St Andrea, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM)
Ordained: ??

Left Society of Jesus: 29 August 1603

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet

◆ Old/15 “Hally”; RIP after 15/08/1603

◆ Old/17 has Ent 11/09/1561 Rome
◆ Old/17 has “Hallio” Dimissi 29/08/1603 Milan (RH INF)

◆ CATSJ A-H has “Hallius or Halius or Halyus or Haly or Hally” - it seems to be 4 persons but considered to be the same; DOB 1545 or 1646 Irish; Ent 11/09/1561 or 1560 Rome;
David Dinnis, Maurice Halley and Edmund Daniel were received in the Roman Novitiate 11/09/1561
Studied Humanities, Philosophy ad Theology
1570 in Lombardy
1577 Studying Theology at Padua
1590-1593 Confessor at Loreto College (poss also studying at Padua)
1594-1596 Confessor at Professed House Milan
1597-1603 Confessor at Milan and teaching Humanities - gone Sept 1603
1606 Not in CAT said to be in Ireland

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Maurice Halli
11 September 1561 Entered Professed House Rome

◆ Finegan Notes

DOB Ireland; Ent 11/09/1561 Rome; Ord by 1590; LEFT 29/08/1603

Early formation was haphazard due to ill health and he was in various places : Milan, Rome, Austria and Lithuania
Ordination date is unclear, but he was a Priest by 1590 when he was teaching Humanities at Padua.
He also spent time as Confessor at Loreto and then from 1594 at Milan Residence
He LEFT 29/08/1603

Born: 01 February 1590, Cork City, County Cork
Entered: 14 November 1609, St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM)
Ordained: ???

Left Society of Jesus: 24 October 1619

◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1608

Old/15 (10 has Ent 1608, corrected to 14/11/1609, RIP after 1615

Old/16 has : “P Stephen Gould”; DOB 1589 Cork; Ent 1608; RIP 1617 & 1626

Old/17 has “Guldeo” Ent 14/11/1609 St Andrea
Old/17 has “Gooldous” Dimissi 24/10/1619 (HIB)

◆ CATSJ A-H has “Gould or Goulde”; DOB 01/02/1590 Irishman/Cork; Ent 01/08 or 14/11/1609 St Andrea, Rome;
A philosopher on Ent. Studied Philosophy at our College of Antwerp and Douai
Probation at Tournai or Douai
1611 BELG CAT Sent to Belgium from Rome - endowed with great natural gifts
1615 Taught Syntax or perhaps Teaching Greek at Dinant (GAL-BEL)

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 1589 Cork; Ent 1608 Rome; RIP 1617-1626

Described as a man of great abilities

Was in Belgium 1611 and 1617

◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Stephen Gould 21 “filosofo”
13 November 1609 Entered St Andrea Rome

◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773

He was born in Ireland, February 1, 1590, and he entered the Society at Rome, November 14, 1609. he had already studied Humanies for six years under the Jesuits at Antwerp and Douai, and in the latter town studied Philosophy at the Irish College.

After one year at Rome, he was sent to Tournai to complete his Noviceship. Having made his first religious profession, he spent a year at Mons completing his Philosophyu course, and then two years of Regency between the Colleges of Mons and Dinant. Between 1614 and 1616, he was studying Theology at Louvain. A lacuna in the Catalogi of Belgium makes it impossible to determined whether he was ordained Priest in the Society.

He left the Society October 24, 1619, and his name disappears henceforth from Society records.

A letter, however, of the General to his provincial, and dated December 10, 1616, makes it clear that Gould had bee4n sent back to Ireland because of the precarious state of his health. he left the Society at his own request.

It is likely that he is identical with a Stephen Gould, a priest, who arrived at the Irish College, Salamanca, April 25, 1620, described as the con of George Gould of the city of Cork. He was said to gave been about 32 years of age. Father Thomas Briones, Rector at Salamanca, sent him to Ireland, July 4, 1620.

◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
GOULD, STEPHEN, Father (Irish), a native of Cork. Was in Belgium in 1617. (Irish Ecclesiastical Record, August, 1874.)

Born: 17 October 1817, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 08 September 1840, St Andrea, Rome, Italy - Romanae Province (ROM)
Ordained: 1845

Left Society of Jesus: 27 November 1859

1840-1842: St Andrea, Rome, Italy (ROM)
1842-1846: Roman College, Rome, Italy, studying
1846-1848: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Teaching
1848-1852: St Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street, Dublin., Prefect of Church
1852-1853: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Teaching and Curate
1853-1858: St Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street, Dublin., Prefect of Church, Curate
1858-1859: St Stanislaus College SJ, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Curate

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.)