Madrid to give Spiritual Retreats to the first personages there, where God was pleased to call him to Himself, through a fever, which carried him off, after receiving all the sacraments, on the seventh day of his sickness, the 17th June, 1614, in the forty-eighth year of his age, of which he had spent fifteen in the Society. He was professed of four vows, and died as he had lived, a model of sanctity and Christian perfection. He is honourably mentioned by Father Philip Alegambe among the writers of the Society of Jesus. Some time between 1614 and 1620, the Irish Fathers asked for one of the Irish Colleges in Spain for the training of young Jesuits for the Irish Mission, but their petition was not successful. I find in their statement the following item about the novitiates of the different Religious Orders then in active service in Ireland :-" The Irish Religious of other Orders have their convents for the training of their members in different Catholic kingdoms-the Irish Friars of St. Francis in Louvain, besides another monastery in Paris; the Irish Capucins in France, the Irish Dominicans in Andalusia, the Irish Monks of St. Bernard in Bordeaux." PATRES ET FRATRES HIBERNI E SOCIETATE Jesu, In Hibernia. Aet. In Soc. P. Christophoris Holywodius 58 33 Fingalliensis, Superior. P. Thomas Sheyn P. Barnabas Kearneus Clonmelliensis. 48 28 Cassiliensis. 61 31 Clonmelliensis. 63 31 Clonmelliensis. 63 20 Medensis. 42 19 48 20 44 21 Cassilienses. 38 18 Medensis. 35 17 17 Medensis. P. Ignatius Briverus . P. Georgius Geraldinus 38 13 Dublinensis. Kilmalocensis. Dublinensis. Waterfordensis. 32 9 Medensis. In Lusitania. Aet. In Soc. 42 19 Tuamensis. Dublinensis. Ossinensis. Burgensis, Ep. Casil. Federensis. 20 2 Federensis. 16 I Waterfordensis. The following additional list is of later date, about 1634 :— Post suprascripta: in Castella, P. Thadeus O'Sulevanus, Casiliensis; P. Edwardus Walsheus, Waterfordensis ; P. Petrus Phedanus, Medensis; P. Ignatius Lombardus (Rector Compostellanus) Waterfordensis; Frater Joannes Barbrius, Novitius, Waterfordensis. In Boetica, P. Ricardus Barrett, Galvensis (dismissus è Societate); P. Petrus Vitus, Waterfordensis; P. Petrus Dilon, Medensis; P. Ricardus Lince, Galvensis; et in provincia Castellae alter Ricardus Lince, Galvensis quoque (hic legit duos cursus philosophiae Provce et theologiae Vallisoleti et Salmanticae). In Toletana provincia, Joannes Vitus, Clonmelliensis; Franciscus Lea, Waterfordensis, professus in Paraguia; Patritius Carnaeus, Casseliensis. Omissi ex provincia Castellae, Jacobus Carnaeus, Casseliensis; Joannes Eganus, Medensis. Ex provincia Boetica, Laurentius Rocheford, Wexfordensis. The brackets were added as interlineations by a still later hand, in which is also the following :-Item in provincia Castellana, Andreas Salus, Casseliensis; Joannes Clarus et Andreas Lincol, ambo Waterfordensis, omnes tres studentes, P. Nicolaus Hore, Rosensis, Thomas Creveus, Limiricensis, Novitius. The following notes are of the date of 1634:-Barnabas Kearneus, mortuus, Theologiae Professor: de ejus sub nomine Christopheri Savelogei, scriptis, vide de Scriptoribus Societatis. Scripsit sermonum duo volumina. Robertus Nugentius, Superior Missionis in Hibernia. Stephanus Murtye, Admirabilis ingenii, Legebat Theologiam Compostellae, ubi mortuus, vel potius Bayonae portu. Gulielmus Malonus, Scripsit Anglice satis erudite contra Usserum Pseudo-Primatem Hiberniae. Joannes Bapt. Duigin, et Gulielmus de Cruce, Legere Theologiam Ulyssiponae. Paulus Lombardus, Discessit è Societate. Michael Waddingus, Rector nonnullorum Collegiorum. Ricardus Valaesius, Egregius Predicator. Lucas Waddingus, Legit Cathedram primariam Valesoleti, probitatis et doctrinae magna cum fama. Paulus Sherlogus, Legit Cathedram Scripturae Regii Salmanticensis Collegii: edidit tria volumina in Canticam Canticorum Salamonis. Thomas Vitus, discessit è Societate. Cornelius Driscol, mortuus, discessit è Societate. Stephanus Whitaeus, Perinsignis Theologiae Professor. Henricus Fitz Simon, Scripsit erudite de Hereticis: Latine Britanomachiam, et Anglice, Ad Rideraeum. Petrus Waddingus, Lovaniae et Pragae docuit Theologiam multa cum fama: prodiit ingeniosum ejus de Filii Dei Incarnatione opus. In 1610 Father Everard tells us there were not twelve Jesuits in all Ireland, and in 1617, notwithstanding the bitter persecution, and in spite of the decrees of expulsion, we find they numbered thirty-eight! As our present article is drawing near its limits, I will conclude by giving the following beautiful letter of Dr. David Karney's, though referring to a period we have now passed: "When I was over there among you (in the Irish College, Salamanca), I gave you a full account of the state of this our native country, and of the troubles and dangers with which we are surrounded. These have since become palpable in the cruel death inflicted on our brother, the bishop of Down, and his chaplain, the 1st day of February of the present year, which we have already detailed to you. At present the state of our affairs is very doubtful; for though we appear to enjoy some alleviation, which we attribute to the happy union of the Catholic Crown with the Most Christian Crown of France, and we would look for complete emancipation if the like occurred between England and Spain, yet we are in suspense, waiting to see how this relaxation of the persecution may end; not because we doubt of the benignity of our king, but because we fear that those by whom he is surrounded may wish to raise a new tempest against us. For this reason we do not dare to exercise our office and the functions of our religion openly, to avoid exasperating them, and falling into their traps, as long experience has taught us that when they dissemble most, they are weaving new snares and preparing fresh trials for us. the very time at which I write the heretical bishops are holding a meeting in Dublin, by order of the viceroy, and we know not for certain what they are machinating, but we are sure that nothing will come of it favourable to us or our holy religion. At "We have ample evidence that a Parliament is about to assemble, and this makes us very uneasy, for we may expect nothing less from it than serious injury to our faith, as in all probability the votes of the perverse will outweigh those of the Catholics, so that they may decree what they like. Within our jurisdiction some wicked men and greedy officials have appeared, who will not pass even the miserable sacristans, who have scarcely enough to eat, but lay on them fines and taxes, which if anyone will not, or cannot, pay, or if he refuses the oath of the king's supremacy, he shall get well off with the loss of his property and the privation of his office. "Some time ago, as I am credibly informed, there came to this country that deceptive and false bishop called Knox, who in the Isles bordering on Scotland committed such cruel acts on the Catholics, and intends to do the same here, and they assure me he has a commission of martial law from the |