A- i&^\ V»'? ii-^^ ' ' i* v> t>1^' :r;?:^' ^V.^. MENOLOGY OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS ENGLISH-SPEAKING ASSISTANCY The Editor of this zuork siilnnits himself in heart and spirit to all the decrees of the Holy Roman Chinch, in respect of the titles of Saint and of Blessed, as also of the record of any virtues or miraciilons events zuhich have not received the sanction of the sovereign authority of tlie Vicar of Jesus Christ. M EN O LOGY OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS ENGLISH-SPEAKING ASSISTANCY: COMPRISING THE PROVINCES OF ENGLAND. IRELAND, -MARYLAND AND MISSOURI, TOGETHER WITH THE MISSIONS OF CANADA AND NEW ORLEANS. VOLUME I. ^rA^•RESA press, roehampton, loxdon. igo:; 3707 ^1 PREFACE. The recent publication of a general Menology of the Society in different series, each bearing the title of the particular Assistancy to which the lives recorded in it belong, has suggested the combining of the Provinces which form the English Assistancy, under the com- prehensive title of a Menology of the English-Speaking Assistancy. In preparing this composite Menology, application has been made to the Superiors and historians of each Province treated of, and as Canada now forms part of the British Dominions, the records of the noble army of French Missionaries and Martyrs who have evangelized that country and watered it with their blood are also included. Besides thanking the various Fathers who have kindly supplied information, an especial acknowledgment is due to the compiler of the Menologies of the French and German Assistancies, for the favour readily granted of being permitted to complete with the aid of these the historical notes derived froni other sources. The only point on which the present Menology differs from those lately issued, is in the absence of the list of references appended to each particular Life. These have been omitted partly because they appear less necessary in a work chietiy intended for 16846 VlU PREFACE. reading in our Refectories, but mainly because tlie matter given is in every case drawn from tlie well known and well accredited historians of the Society, from Annual Letters, from Province Cataloeues and Summaries of Deceased Fathers, from Brother Foley's Records, and from Dr. Oliver's Collectanea. In respect of the United States, the additional sources of research have been the Maryland Incunabula, and Fraginenta ; the Anglo-Maryland Collection; the JVoodstock Letters and the JVoodstock Archives; the Georgetoion College Manuscripts ; and the A\'7i' York Papers. Should any further information be sought by the student, he can follow out the copious references given in the Records of the English Province, by Brother F'oley, and those appended to each Life in the German and French Menologics. The object has been to provide within each month sufficient matter for public reading on every day throughout the year, and therefore the date of commemoration does not in every case coincide with that on which the death occurred, but the latter is always indicated, if knowai. This Menology does not undertake to pass beyond the limit of the year 1840. Each volume closes with an Lidex of Names for the successive months and the ; second volume contains in addition an alphabetical list of names for the whole year. MENOLOGY OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS. THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING ASSISTANCY. JANUARY. I. Father Thomas More, brother of the historian of the Enolish Province of the Society, was born in Cambridgeshire, in the year 1586, and was sent to the Enolish for his studies College, Rome, higher ; he was admitted among- the scholars of the Pontifical College on October 15th, 1601, at the age of fifteen. After his ordination, in 1609, he left for England, and shortly afterwards entered the Society, in which he laboured for about four years on the Mission. He devoted himself especially to the care of the poorer Catholics, never using a horse, but making all his visits on foot. Havine been seized by the heretics, he was cast into prison, ;uk1 condemned to e.xile for life. Shortly before his death, he was sent to make his Tertianship at Ghent, but Providence had ordained that this retirement should be in his regard a preparation for death. On returning from a mission to the English Catholic soldiers, he was attacked with excruciating internal pains, which cut short his life within a very few days. He bore his extreme sufferings with the utmost patience and resignation, and, after making a general confession, died in the beginning of January, 1623, at the early age of thirty-seven. P 2 ENGLISH-SPEAKING ASSISTANCY. 2. Brother W'illiam Heigham, a temporal coadjutor, whose sister, Mrs. Ann Line, was martyred at Tyburn, is described by Father Gerard as a convert disinherited by his father on entering the Church, at which time he was supporting a priest of the name of Thomson, who died a martyr for the Faith, and whose death Father Gerard witnessed. Brother Heigham was soon after seized and imprisoned in Bridewell, and put to hard labour under the lash. Father Gerard visited him in prison, and found him toiling at the tread-mill, all covered with sweat. On recovering his freedom, he hired himself out as a servant to a gentleman whose wife was a Catholic, and whose son was placed under his care as a private pupil. He afterwards passed into Spain as a lay-brother, where he became known to Father Gerard, and gave to him a long and interesting history of his vocation. January 2. I. Father Leonard Hyde, a native of Berkshire, was admitted into the Society shortly before his death, after he had long and often petitioned to be admitted, but had been refused on account of age and ill-health. His desire to enter in strong the religious life is clearly shown his attempt to join the severe Order of the Carthusians, at Mechlin, thouL>h his streng-th did not correspond to his will. He had rendered great service to the Catholic cause by the many labours and imprisonments which he imderwent throughout a long lite with unfailing readiness and zeal. After completing his studies at Douay, and being ordained at Cambray, he was sent to Rome in 1577, when the newly-founded English College was placed under the care of the Society. In 1580, he accompanied l-'athers Parsons and Campion to England, and two years afterwards was seized in London and imprisoned, first in Newgate, and then successively at Wisbeach and in the Tower. Father Hyde, though then a secular priest, gave signal proof of his friendly feelings towards the Society JANUARY 2. -FATHER JOHN KNATCHRULL. 3 tlie by signini;- agrcemcnl that j)ut an end to tlic W'isbcacli "stirs." These were caused by opposition to the desire of eighteen of the priests to render tlieir imprisonment as great a help to their sanctitication as possible, and by their success in obtaining" the appointment of a Superior to regulate their life as in Community. He was banished from the country, but returned to it in 1604. In 160S, he died, a venerable Confessor for the Faith. 2. Father Johx Kxatchbull, generally known by the name of Norton, was born in 1571, and belonged to a very ancient Kentish family, many of the members of which became Religious. His name is mentioned in a list of the Douay clergy as having left that College for Rome in 1609, for the purpose of teaching, and again, in 16 16, as having gone from Douay to reside in the English Monastery at Brussels. At this time, he was \'ice- President of Douay, appointed to that office by the President, Dr. Worthington. The Annual Letters for 161S, during which year he joined the Society at Louvain, speak of him as already a distinguished man, a priest, and Doctor of Theology. He had always been remarkable for his devotion to the Blessed Virgin conceived without sin, and, when chosen to be third Prefect of the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, he had presented to it a very valuable statue of the Blessed Virgin, carved out of the oak of Montacute, besides making other offerings in her honour. Our Lady, not to be outdone in generosity, repaid his devotion a hundred-fold, by giving him a vocation to a religious life in the Society. In 162 1, Father Knatchbull was Professor at Brussels, and Procurator there of the English Province, at which time he rendered great service to the English Convents at Brussels and at Ghent. In 1625, he was made third Rector of the Tertianship erected at Ghent five years before, and in 1628, was Procurator of the English Province at Madrid, where he also acted as Confessor to the Queen of Spain, and possessed a widely extended influence. He died at Madrid, probably in some year between 1628 and 1632, as his name disappears from the Catalogues after this latter date. ENGLISH-SPEAKING ASSISTANCY. January 3. 1. In the year 1615, at the age of fifty-one, died Father Robert Jones from injuries received when hastening at night to baptize a sick babe. He " was born in Shropshire, probably at Oswestry, and was called the Apostle in districts of Wales," having spent the greater jDart of his missionary life the of North and South Wales, and having been the principal founder of the College of St. Francis Xavier, which then embraced North and South Wales. He entered the Society in Rome in 1583, was sent to England in 1594, and made his Profession in 1603, becoming afterwards Vice- Prefect of the English Mission. Besides writing in this capacity a circular letter to his brethren, he sent a long account to Father General Acquaviva, describing the miseries and difficulties of this country, and recommending that none be appointed to the Mission except men who are of solid piety, discreet, mortified, humble, and prepared to endure labour and privations.