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Our Irish Martyrs
by Manus
Principally a reading of Damian Richardson's publication of Fr Dennis Murphy's collection of primary source accounts of the martyrdom of Ireland's Christian Martyrs.
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108 Thomas Aquinas of Jesus 1642
From Eusebius’ Enchiridion, p202 Fr AQUINAS successfully confirmed Catholics in the faith, & won some back from heresy. He was captured in the home of recent converts. The Puritans searched the house & prepared to burn it. Fr Thomas, came out & surrendered. He was beaten, carried to Drogheda, &...
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107 Fergal Ward OSF
(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 698) HE was a native of Ulster, a religious of the Order of St. Francis of the Strict Observance, and a very famous preacher. He was seized treacherously by a certain Forbes, a Scotchman by birth, a cruel and barbarous rebel, who had the command of six pirate...
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106 Edmund Hore & John Clancy
(From the Barberini Archives, Rome.) ON March 9th, 1642, the Most Rev. Dr. Comerford, Bishop of Waterford, wrote to a friend resident in Paris Last week, the President of Ulster, having received reinforcements, once more took the field, together with the Earl of Cork, the Earl of Barrymore, Lord...
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105 Peter O'Higgin O.P.
(From O’DaIy’s Relatio, p. 335) HE was Prior of Naas, and a famous preacher of the word of God. He was executed by order of Charles Coote despite being under the protection of the Butler, earl of Ormonde. He was publicly offered his life and prestige if he would become protestant. See also Bruodin.
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104 Peter Higgins
(From De Burgo’s Hib. Dom., p. 561) HE was a member of the Dublin Community. When the war was begun by the Catholics for their faith and country, he was seized by the heretics and cast into a prison, where he endured much from the hardships of the place and want of food. Yet no one made a charge...
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H The Cromwellians
The consequences for Irish Catholics of Cromwellian victory in the Confederate War of 1641 to 1652.
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103 John Meagh SJ
(From Alegamb’eS MorteS lllustreS, p. 538) JOHN MEAGH was a native of Cork, in the province of Munster. To remove him from the persecution of the heretics, he was taken by his father first to France, and then to Naples. After his father’s death, he entered the service of the Duke of Ossuna, the...
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102 Arthur M'Geoghegan O.P.
(From O’Daly’s Relatio, p.364) F. MALPHÆUS, O.P., in his Palma Fidel OP., gives a detailed account of him. When he was returning to his native country from Lisbon (where he had lived for some time in the college of our Lady of the Rosary), he landed in England. He was soon after accused in London...
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101 Patrick Fleming and Matthew Hore, O.S.F.
(From Magennis ‘ De Incunabulis Collegil, B. U M., Pragensis. .) IN the year 1631, when the Prince Elector of Saxony made an incursion into Bohemia and was marching on Prague to plunder it, the citizens, the nobles, and many of the religious too, went in crowds to a more secure and better…
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100 Edmund Dungan, Bishop of Down & Conor
(From Ward’s Catalogue) HE was a member of the Third Order of St. Francis. After enduring great hardships in prison, he died in chains for the faith in the year 1628. (1) On the 7 of September of the following year, the Archbishop elect of Armagh, the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishop elect of...
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G Reign of Charles Stewart
On how the pre-war reign of Charles Stewart effected the religious freedoms of Irish Catholics.
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99 John Cathan
(From Ward’s Catalogue.) HE made his religious profession on the College of Saint Antony of Padua, Louvain. While he was employed as preacher in the convent of Buttevant, he was seized there by the heretics and cast into prison in Limerick. He died in his chains in the year 1622. On the night of...
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98 Francis Tailler
(From Molanus’ Idea,p.96) HE passed several years in prison in Dublin, and endured in it all the hardships of cold and confinement. Broken down by sufferings, he exchanged this brief life for eternity, in the year 1621. We have the following testimony borne to his merits by the Archbishop and...
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98 Francis Tailler 1621
(From Molanus’ Idea,p.96) HE passed several years in prison in Dublin, and endured in it all the hardships of cold and confinement. Broken down by sufferings, he exchanged this brief life for eternity, in the year 1621. We have the following testimony borne to his merits by the Archbishop and...
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97 JAMES EUSTACE, O.CIST.
(From Hartry’s Triumphalia, p. 257.) ON the 8 of September, 1620, the Rev. James Eustace received the crown of martyrdom, and by sufferings on earth like those of his brother in religion Nicholas Fitzgerald,obtained a reward in heaven. The author says he heard the account of the martyrdom of…
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96 Cornelius Cronin
(From Ward’s Catalogue.) HE belonged to the Convent of the Multyfarnham. He was seized by Placidus, the heretical Bishop of Tuam, in a certain monastery, in the year 1617, and imprisoned at Mullingar. Worn out by the squalor of the prison, he died there blissfully in the Lord in the year 1618.
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95 John Honan
(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p.505) HE was a native of Connaught, a priest, and a member of the Franciscan Order. After he had spent many years in religion a model to all of every virtue, and had discharged the office of pastor very zealously among the persecuted Catholics of Leinster, he was...
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94 Patrick O'Dryry
(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p.505) HE was a native of Ulster, and a priest, and gained a victory at Derry of St ColumKille, as he would not obey the iniquitous laws of Elizabeth and James. He overcame very cruel tortures, and preferred the ignominious death of the scaffold and the cutting of…
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93 Thomas Fitzgerald OSF
(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p.499) HE was descended from the very ancient family of the Earls of Desmond. From his very childhood he was so virtuous that he was considered a saint. When he was enrolled in the Seraphic Order, not only did he strengthen himself by vows in the virtues which he...
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92 Sir Patrick Purcell
(From O’Sullevan’s Hist. Cath., p. 294) THE murder of Sir Patrick Purcell, knight, worn out by old age, is well known. In his eightieth year, he was accused of having entertained at supper, in Elizabeth’s time, a Catholic knight who was fighting on the side of the Catholics. He was hanged, and…
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91 CORNELIUS O’DEVANY, BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR, AND PATRICK O’LOCHRAN, O.S.F.
(From Rothe’s Analecta, p. 456 and O’Sullivan’s Cath. Hist., p. 298) CORNELIUS O’DEVANY was born in 1533. He belonged to a respectable family in Ulster. Of his early life we know little or nothing. Before he reached his twentieth year he entered the Order of St. Francis, and soon attained to a…
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91 CORNELIUS O’DEVANY, BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR, AND PATRICK O’LOCHRAN, O.S.F.
(From Rothe’s Analecta, p. 456 and O’Sullivan’s Cath. Hist., p. 298) CORNELIUS O’DEVANY was born in 1533. He belonged to a respectable family in Ulster. Of his early life we know little or nothing. Before he reached his twentieth year he entered the Order of St. Francis, and soon attained to a…
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90 John Lune
(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 673 THIS pious and zealous priest was a native of Wexford. At the risk of his life he used to comfort the flock confided to his care, and encourage them to persevere in the profession of the faith of their fathers, at a time when the heretics were persecuting the...
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89 DONOUGH MACREDY, O.S.F.
(From Molanus Idea, p. 154) HE was a priest, and because he had spread the Catholic faith with all his might throughout every province of Ireland, then convulsed with war, he was seized through hatred of the faith, and torn to pieces by means of four wild horses, and so he ended his life, to be...
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88 PATRICK O’DERRY, O.S.F.
(From Molanus’ Idea, p. 72) HE was a priest of great age and venerable appearance. He was hanged at Lifford, in the territory of the most illustrious Earl of Tyrconnell. He was cut down while still breathing, disembowelled, and quartered by the heretics hardened in their cruelty, and in this way…
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87 Donagh & John Olvin O.P.
(From De Burgo’s Hib. Dom., p.559) AMONG our Irish martyrs assuredly these may well claim the first place. They are spoken of at length in the work bearing the title Palma Fidel Ordains Prœdicatorum composed by the Rev. Father B. Peter Malphæus, OP., prior of Brussels ; viz:’ Donough, alias...
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86 Robert Lalor
HE was Vicar General of the dioceses of Dublin, Kildare, and Ferns, ‘a good and pious man, who has great influence in the ecclesiastical concerns of this kingdom.’ His capture is thus spoken of in a letter of Chichester to the Earl of Salisbury, of February 26th, 1606 : ‘They have taken one…
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85 Sir John Burke
The martyrdom of the Lord of Brittas, County Limerick.
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83 Neal O'Boyle O.S.F.
(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum p. 499) HE was descended from a noble family in Ulster, and adorned the Order of St. Francis for many years by his strict observance of the rule and holiness of life. At last he was seized by the heretics in the county of Tyrone, scourged with whips, and hanged, in...
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82 Eugene O’Gallagher & Bernard O’Trevir, O. Cist.
Martyrdom of two noted Cistercians.
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81 Bernard O’Kearolan
On the martyrdom of Fr Bernard O’Kearolan of Leinster.
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F Reign of James, son of Mary Queen of Scots
Regarding the events and legislation of James Stewarts reign regarding religious liberty. (image from wiki images)
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80 FORTY PRIESTS
FORTY PRIESTS (From O’Heyn’e Epilogus, p.18) IN 1602 forty priests of different religious Orders were put to death by drowning. This writer thus described the manner of their death: Turn, reader, and listen to a horrid crime. In the year 1602, Elizabeth, the instrument of hell, falsely styled…
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79 Dominic Collins
(From Tanner’s Soc. Jesu Militans, p. 55) DOMINIC COLLINS, a man who displayed heroic courage both when serving in the armies of the kings of this world in France and Spain and when combating under the banner of the Cross in the Society of Jesus, was born at Youghal, of noble and illustrious...
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78 Donagh O'Falvy
THIS priest, after lying concealed for a long time, was seized by the English and hanged at Cork during the reign of Elizabeth, about the time of the second Geraldine war.
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77 Donagh O'Cronin
(O’Sullevan’s Decas patric., fol. 164b) I LEARNED the rudiments of the Christian religion from him when I was a boy. At that time he was in Orders, though not a priest. He was hanged in Cork, and his entrails torn out and cast into the fire, in the year 1601.
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76 John O'Kelly
THIS priest was a native of Connaught, and of noble birth. Having overcome various torments in defence of the Catholic faith, broken down by the noisomeness and hardships of the prison in which he was confined in the company of robbers, he gave up his soul to God on May 15th, 1601.
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75 Donough O'Mollony
HE was born of a noble family, was a priest, and vicar of the diocese of Kilialoe. This brave soldier and truly apostolic pastor did not fear to expose his life to danger when the wild beasts were laying the vineyard waste, opposing the heretics by word and deed. He was seized by the heretical...
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74 REDMOND O’GALLAGHER, BISHOP OF DERRY
HE was a native of Ulster and Bishop of Connor. (This is a mistake. He was appointed Bishop of Killala in 1545 and transferred to Derry in 1569. ) He was attacked at night in his own house by some English soldiers of the garrison of Lough Foyle, and with three other priests cruelly put to death.…
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73 Nicholas Young
(From Rothe’s Analecta, p. 387) HE was a priest from the village of Newtown, near Trim. This venerable old man, through hatred of his calling, was thrown Into the prison of Dublin Castle, where, worn out with suffering and misery, he ended his life.
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72 Patrick O'Hea
HE was a citizen of Wexford. Being an earnest Supporter of the Catholic faith, he was denounced by spies not only for having given shelter to Catholic bishops and priests who were pursued, but also for conveying them to France and Spain. By order of Lord Grey, the Viceroy, he was taken to Dublin...
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71 George Power, Vicar of Ossory
(From Molanus’ Idea, p. 71) THIS priest was a native of Kilkenny, and Vicar General of the diocese of Ossory. When old and decrepit, he was taken to Dublin by order of the Queen, to answer for Professing the Catholic religion. In the public court he made open profession of the Catholic faith. He...
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70 James Dowdall
HE was a Drogheda merchant, & when returning from France to Ireland he was driven by contrary winds into a harbour in the south of England. The Mayor questioned him about the spiritual supremacy of Elizabeth. Dowdall answered, as a Catholic should, that he recognized no other as Head of the…
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69 John Stephens
THIS priest was a native of Leinster. He was accused by the heretics of celebrating Mass. He was hanged and quartered by order of the cruel tyrant Marshal Burrowes, and so deserved to obtain a martyr’s crown September 4th, 1597.
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68 Walter Fernan
HE was a native of Leinster, a priest, and a zealous preacher. He was thrown into prison by order of the chief judge, and severely tortured by the executioners. Being then asked whether he would take the oath of Supremacy, he answered with great firmness, that he would rather die. The judge…
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67 Bernard Moriarty
The martyrdom of Bernard Moriarty.
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66 John Cornelius, Terence Carey & Patrick Salmon, (all Venerable).
The martyrdom of John Cornelius, Terence Carey & Patrick Salmon, (all Venerable).
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65 Andrew Strich
The martyrdom of Andrew Strich.
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64 Edmund Magauran, Archbishop of Armagh
The martyrdom of Edmund Magauran, Archbishop of Armagh
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