to none can it be ungrateful, save to those, if any such there be, who would renew the persecutions which caused them. Of course, these memorials have a deeper interest for those who are of the household of the faith; for the sons of those who for the faith "Spared neither and nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, for those who now fill the posts in the church once occupied by martyrs. To them, and to their predecessors, may I apply the words addressed after the French Revolution to the glorious clergy of France: "Hail, venerable priests of the Roman Catholic Church! You have, indeed, suffered much, but you have not yet come to the city of the living God and the company of the angels, where the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has glorified those whom he called in persecution and justified by the shedding of blood for the faith. Let us strew a few flowers on the tombs of our martyrs. Hail, you who were mighty in war, and fought with the old serpent! O glorious confessors of our God and his Christ! to whom it was given not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him-you who endured so much ignominy, who as exiles trod the narrow way of the cross amidst the applause of heaven and the wonder of the earth, behold me at your feet! How beautiful are the feet of those who were witnesses to God even unto the ends of the earth! And you who, contemning the tempest and the swelling waves, ceased not intrepidly to cast your nets; you who, placed, as it were, in the fiery furnace, continued to bless God, to do good to men, to guard your flocks; you, burning and shining lights, who, when you might no longer be as a light placed on a candlestick to shine to all in the house, sought to gather as many as you might under the bushel where you were hidden, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings -sacred leaven which preserved the whole body from perversion -you blessed priests, to whom the Lord gave the spirit of heroic endurance in the midst of dangers-hail, true soldiers of Christ! Hail, holy priests, worthy of double honor! Praise be to God who gave to you this victory, through Christ our Lord! Happy persecution which brought you such a reward! Happy prisons through which you reached the heavenly palaces! Happy death which gave you eternal life! Holy fathers, glorious brothers, who now joyfully stand around the throne of the Lamb, look down from heaven, and bring help to your brethren, your flocks, your countrymen. We are still in the strife, while you have attained the happy rest. Aid us by your prayers.' Arvisenet, Manual. Sacer INDEX OF PRINCIPAL WORKS REFERRED TO. I HAVE thought that some of my younger readers would like to have a short account of the principal works of old authors here quoted, with a note of where they may be found. I may here point out that the plan I have observed is to give wherever possible the "Memorials" in the exact words of the original writers from whom they are derived. This plan has the advantage not only of enabling the reader to judge for himself, but of presenting a more lively and truthful picture than any modern résumé could give it tells the reader not only the facts, but how those facts affected contemporaries, and how they judged them, and thus furnishes a lively picture of the times—a record not only of the actions, but of the thoughts and feelings of the men of those days. I need hardly point out that the language of those old writers is not always that which we should use: thus, they designate as sectaries and heretics those whom we are accustomed to call "our dissenting brethren;" but it would be absurd to make those who were fleeing into the wilderness before the exterminating sword of the Cromwellians speak of them as "erring brethren." Time heals wounds and obliterates animosities. I have let the men of old speak their own thoughts in their own language, as we do ours. Annales Ordinis Minorum. Auctore Luca Waddingo. Romæ, 1731. Wadding's wellknown annals of his own order. This work is to be found in all our great libraries, as the British Museum, Trinity College, Maynooth College, etc. Scriptores Ordinis Minorum, quibus accessit syllabus eorum qui ex eodem ordine pro fide Christi fortiter occubuerunt. Romæ, 1806. This is the revised and continued edition, by Thisboralea, of the work by Wadding. It is in Trinity College, etc. Acta Sanctorum. Colgan. Lovanii, 1645. The preface gives an account of the death of Fathers Fleming and Ward, two of the compilers. It is in the British Museum, Trinity College, etc. Hibernia Dominicana. De Burgo. Col Agrippinæ, 1762. This well-known work is in all our public and many of our private libraries. 18 Index of Principal Works referred to. Monumenta Dominicana. Fonseca. Romæ, 1665. This is not an uncommon work; I have myself a copy. Historia Catholicæ Compendium. Auctore O'Sullevano Bearro. Ulissiponi, 1621. The original is in the British Museum, Trinity College, etc. The reprint of 185c is to be had easily. Relatio Persecutionis Hiberniæ. Auctore Dominico a Rosario, (O'Daly.) And Hist. Gerald. Ulissip. 1655. Is in the British Museum, Trinity Library, etc. A translation of it by Father Meehan was published by Duffy in 1847. Propugnaculum Catholicæ Veritatis, etc. Auctore R. P. F. Antonio Bruodino. Pragæ, 1669. Is in Maynooth Library. De Regno Hiberniæ. A Petro Lombardo. Lovanii, 1632. Is in the British Museum, etc. Lyra sive Anacephalosis Hibern. Auctore T. Carve. Sulzbaci, 1666. Is in the British Museum, etc. Relatio Viridica Provinciæ Hiberniæ Ordinis Minorum. Auctore R. P. le Marchant, 1651. I have seen this very curious account of the Franciscan province of Ireland at that time only in the Bollandists' Library, Brussels. Analecta Sacra Nova et Mira de Rebus Catholicorum in Hibernia pro Fide et Religi one gestis. Auctore N. Philadelpho, (Dr. David Roothe, Bishop of Ossory.) Coloniæ, 1617. And Processus Martyrialis, etc., by the same author. The first printed in 1617, the second in 1619. The first is a general account of the history of the time; the second contains a catalogue and lives of those who up to that date had suffered for the faith. The first exists in the Bollandists', Louvain, and Antwerp libraries, and a copy is in the possession of his eminence Cardinal Cullen. Of the second I only know three copies, one in the Bollandists' Library, one in the library of Louvain University, and the third in MS. in my possession, for which I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. T. O'Hea. Societas Jesu usque ad Sanguinem, etc. Tanner. Pragæ, 1675. This volume of lives of the Jesuits of these countries who suffered for the faith is to be found in the British Museum and some of our other libraries. Collections toward Illustrating the Biography of Members of the Society of Jesus. Exe ter, 1838. By Dr. Oliver. This work is to be found in most libraries. Persecutio Hiberniæ. By the Irish Seminary of Seville. Printed 1619. I am indebted for my knowledge of this work, which is in the library of St. Isidore's, Rome, to Dr. Moran. Sanctorale Cisterciensum. Valladolid, 1613. For references to this, which is to be found in the private library of Propaganda, Rome, I am also indebted to Dr. Moran. Historical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland. Curry. Dublin, 1775. Is in all our libraries. Noticias Historicas de las tres Florentissimas Provincias del Celeste Orden de la Sma. Trinidad. A Fr. Domingo Lopez, etc. Madrid, 1714. This curious but, I fear, apocryphal work is to be found in the library of Maynooth College, and in the private library of Propaganda. Theologia Tripartita. Ardsdekin. Antverpiæ, 1686. At the end is an account of Dr. Talbot, Dr. Plunket, and some others. It is a common book, and in all our libraries. Pii Antistitis Icon, sive de Vita et Morte Reverendi D. Francisci Kirwan, Alladensis Episcopi. Authore loanne Lynchæo, Archidiacono Tuamensi. Maclovii, 1649. The copy in the Grenville Library, in the British Museum, is the only one known to exist. On the fly. leaf is written by R. Heber, to whom the book belonged: "I believe this to be the rarest volume in existence connected with the history of Ireland, and the portrait of Bishop Kirwan prefixed is totally unknown." The biographer, John Lynch, titular Archdeacon of Tuam fled out of Ireland into France after the surrender of Galway to Cromwell, and is the author of the scarce and well-known work, Cambrensis Eversus. A translation by Father Meehan was printed by Duffy in 1848. Epilogus Chronologiæ exponens succincte conventus et fundationes Sacri Ordinis Predicatorum in Regno Hiberniæ. Lovanii, 1706. Fr. Ioanne O'Heyn, O.P. It gives a very short account of each convent, and its most remarkable alumni. The book is scarce; the only copy I know of in Ireland is in the library of the Dominican convent, Galway. Threnodia Hiberno Catholica, sive Planctus Universalis Totius Cleri et Populi Regn Hibernia. Per F. M. Morisonum, Ord. Min. Strict. Obs. (Eniponti, 1659. Exists in the Grenville Library, British Museum. I do not know of any other copy. I need hardly mention here, as they are so well known: Dr. Renehan's Collections on Church History, edited by Rev. D. McCarthy. Dublin, 1861. Dr. Moran's Lives of Archbishops of Dublin; Life of Dr. Plunket; History of Persecutions, etc. Father Meehan's valuable translation of O'Sullivan Lynch and Others, and his last work, Flight of the Earls. Father Cogan's Diocese of Meath. The various calendars of State Papers published by the Record Office. MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BURGUNDIAN LIBRARY, BRUSSELS. No. 2307. A Catalogue of the Martyrs, etc., of the Society of Jesus, quoted as Catalog. Soc. Jesu. It is a catalogue of all those of the society who had recently (about 1700) suffered for the faith. No. 2159. Magna Supplicia a Persecutoribus aliquot Catholicorum in Ibernia Sumpta. Written about 1600. A very curious collection of contemporary anecdotes. No. 2167. Compendium Martyrii Reverendi Cornelii O'Dovanii. An account of the martyrdom of Bishop Dovany in 1612, written by a contemporary. Bound up with the same is a curious letter, dated 15th April, 1612, from the Rev. Father Fleming, of the Order of St. Dominick, dated from the convent of Dundalk. This is curious as showing that at that date the Dominican convent of Carlingford had been transferred to Dundalk. No. 3195. De Provincia Hiberniæ Ordinis Sancti Francisci Tractatus a Rev. Do nato Mooney. Anno 1627. This account of the Franciscan province of Ireland has been frequently referred to, and a good part of it published in Duffy's Magazine by Father Meehan. No. 3824 Lettres des Jésuites Anglais, or Correspondance des Pères Jésuites Irlandais. This is the collection of letters from Irish Jesuits and others, giving the life of Henry Slingsby, which my readers will find under the year 1641. |