4 June 1579: Edmund Tanner #Jesuit bishop of #Cork & Cloyne d. #otd at Cullahill in the parish of Durrow in the house of the Lord of Upper Ossory, Fitzpatrick
A new PBS documentary, “Teilhard: Visionary Scientist,” premiered this month. Paleontologist, theologian, and mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin tried to be a faithful son of the Church and a faithful scientist as he brought both those together. Challenged during his life (and after), refused permission to publish, rehabilitated by recent popes.
21 May 1670: d. Niccolò Zucchi #Jesuit astronomer & physicist. He may have been the first to see the belts on the planet Jupiter, reported spots on Mars. He was a designer of telescopes & friends with Kepler.
20 May 1521: Ignatius Loyola is wounded #otd at the Battle of #Pamplona, setting in motion a series of events that would lead to the foundation of the Society of Jesus or #Jesuit order
(1st image shows him helping St. Patrick to keep Ireland faithful, from @ucdarchives
/ BM)
13 May 1623: Joseph Simons #Jesuit's [born Emmanuel Lobb in Portsmouth] Tragedy "Vitus" performed at St. Omer #otd Tragoediae Quingque, featuring all five of his plays was published in Liège in 1656 & reprinted 1657, 1680 & 1697. (Google Books)
13 May 1603: After 5 years in solitary in the Tower of #London, William Weston #Jesuit takes the offer of exile & is released #otd In the Tower he'd suffered insomnia, headaches & growing blindness. Died as Rector of St Alban's English College Valladolid on 14/15 Apr 1615 (BM)
23 Apr 1594: John Gerard #Jesuit, future escapee from the Tower of #London and defender of the #nuntastic Mary Ward is arrested in a house in #Holborn#otd (BM)
23 Apr 1594: St Nicholas Owen carpenter & #Jesuit lay brother is arrested in #London#otd with John Gerard SJ. He died under torture in the Tower of #London (LLew) on 1-2 Mar 1606. The official line was that he had: 'slit his own stomach'
8 Apr 1579: Thomas Cottam of #Lancashire enters the #Jesuit novitiate at Sant' Andrea #Rome#otd
Arrested on landing at #Dover June 1580, tortured in Marshalsea & Tower of #London, executed 30 May 1582 having refused last-minute pardon if accepted Supremacy of Elizabeth I (NPG)
7 Apr 1606: Bl. Edward Oldcorne #Jesuit executed Red Hill #Worcester for alleged collaboration with his fellow #Jesuit Henry Garnet on the Gunpowder Plot (BM) He died with thename of St Winifred on his lips. A corporeal relic, his eyeball, still exists
6 Apr 1604: Francis Walsingham presents his misgivings about the CofE to James VI & I #otd . James referred him to Bishop Bancroft who passed him on to George Downham future bishop of #Derry (eebo) Became a #Jesuit in 1609. Distant cousin of his namesake who died #otd in 1590
6 Apr 1610: Tuesday of Holy Week - illness overtakes Robert Persons #Jesuit#otd (BM) He d. On 15 Apr after enduring much pain. Buried in the #English College #Rome, a major figure in the development of the mission to #England
5 Apr 1682: ex-#Jesuit convert Andrew Sall buried at #Oxmantown#Dublin#otd Sall worked on William Bedell's (d.1642) #Gaelic#Bible for Robert Boyle & Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (eebo)
2 Apr 1564: b. William Bathe #Irish#Jesuit, musicologist, proponent of method for rapid language learning at #Drumcondra#Dublin on Easter Sunday #otd (eebo). He died in #Madrid in 1614.
For years Caravaggio’s ‘Taking of Christ’ hung , unattributed, in a #Jesuit refectory in #Dublin where I ate a few times, unknowing, like everyone else. It is now on permanent loan to the National Gallery of #Ireland
28 Mar 1609: Claudio Acquaviva SJ, 5th general of #Jesuits names Robert Jones, a native of the diocese of St. Asaph as superior of the #Jesuit mission in #England & #Wales#otd (BM)
8 Mar 1648: Richard Archdekin of Kilkenny City, the #Jesuit hagiographer of St. Patrick & recorder of the miracles of St Francis Xavier is ordained priest in #Flanders#otd He returned to Ireland in the summer of 1649 but went back to the Low Countries in 1653.