(From Molanus’ Idea, p. 73)
Comemorate 30th May, date of Papal appointment
HE was a Doctor of Theology, and Vicar Apostolic of the diocese of Ross.[1]
This active and courageous labourer in promoting the cause of Catholicity, both by his prayers and his exhortations to others, received a wound from a body of armed heretics, who fell on him and left him for dead.
His friends found him still breathing and almost expiring, and bore him off late in the evening to a neighbouring village.
Both himself and the place where he was lying are said to have been lighted up throughout the whole of that night. They buried him with much honour in the neighbouring monastery of Timoleague,[2] belonging to the Order of St. Francis.
See also Rothe, O’Sullevan, and Porter.[3]
Appointed vicar apostolic by papal brief on 30 May 1597 (N.S.).
[1] O’Sullevan says he was Bishop elect of Ross. His. Cath., p.244. His name, however, is not given in Bradys Ep. Succ
[2] Ten miles south of Bandon, on the western side of Courtmacsherry Bay. See Meehan’s Franc. Mon., p. 52. It was founded by the Barry family.
[3] None of these writers gives the date of his death. Rothe places him between Patrick Locheran (1612) and Donagh Daly (1614).
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.
