The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-01
lRELAND'S SONS.
Biographical Collections of Inter
est to All Students of Irish
History.
in THE RANKSOF THE JESUlTS.
A New Page of History Sets Forth
Their Fame as Scholars and
Martyrs.

"A Nc" rage OF HISTORY S6Cs Forth
Their Fame as Scholars and
Martyrs.
Father Edmund Hogan, s. j., has rem
dered brilliant service IN the cause. of
true historic knowledge by the produc-
zion OF work to which he has given the
title, ''Dlstinguished Irishmen Of the
Sixteenth Century" Father Hogan's
book is issued as one of the we'll known
*SQuarterly Series" produced by the
Manresa Press, Rochampton, Eng, says
the Irish Catholic.
Irishmen all over the world will look
forward with anxiety to the appearance
of those other biographies of eminent
Irishmen which Father Hogan promises,
and relative 10 those live and deaths
the archives OF the illustrious society of
which he himself is such distingu iehed
member contain so many memorials.
How numerous these are Father Hogan
reminds his readers when he says that
~'only those who are acquainted with the
byways Of history are aware that in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Ire
land produced many remarkable men of
world wide reputation" Perhaps few
Irishmen of our times know even the
name of Father Richard Fleming, S. j.,
who was chancellor Of the University of
Pont.a- NJ Mousson, and for his extraordi-
nary ability was selected by the society
to replace the celebrated Maldonatus as
professor of theology in the College of
Clermont at Paris. Fewer still have
heard OF the four Weddings OF Water
ford, all men of distinction of the same
order, one of whom. Peter, was chancellor
Off two German universities at one and
the same time. How many save the
erudite Bishop Reeves and Cardinal
Moran, know anything of Stephen White,
s. j., so much praised by Usher and many
other competent judges, and styled
"'Polyhistor" on account Of his erudition?
With good reason Father Hogan has set
himself to dispel an ignorance which,
however excut able in the case Of those
who are it's victims, does not tend to the
creation of that sense OF dignity and of
power which confers on nations, as on
individuals, courage and capacity for the
undertaking of noble deeds.
It is a noteworthy fact, to which
Father Hogan does not omit to direct at.
tention, that almost from the first forn: a.
tion of the Society of Jeeus it's ranks
have contained recruits from ireland.
SO early as 1885 St. Ignatius wrote to
Cardinal Pole telling him that in the
college OF the society at Rome was 'one
Irishmsn Of great prom1se,' and SO strong
was the impression which this worthy
representative Of our country made on
the great soldier of the church that St.
Ignatius begged, the English cardinal to
send him others to be educated by or
enrolled in the society, 50 that they
@'could soon return home we'll equipped
with learning and virtue, and with su-
preme venerati n for the Holy See." On
st. Patrick's day, 1904, st. Ignatius' sue
cessor in the Office of general declared
that "by all means Irishmen should be
admitted into the society, as they seemed
formed for our institute by their humility,
obedience, charity and learning, in all
which, according to the testimonies that
come from all quarters, the Irish very
much excel" When in 1852, the tenth
general congregation of the society as
sembled at Rome, it was unanimously
agreed that every province OF the soci-
ety should undertake to have always
one Irish Jesuit in training at it's own
expenses, for service in his native land.
It is remarkable that, as Father Hogan
recalls, the very year wherein st. Igna-
thus was moved by desire to bring Irish
students under the influence and protec-
ton OF his society-a desire which he
declared the ''divine sovereign charity
has communicated to our heart Yves
that in which commenced to protracted
and diabolical warfare which had for it's
object the eradication Of all learning and
culture among our people and their per-
petual consignment to the slavery Of
Ignorance. The so-called reformation, :
which is 90 often described as an effort
for the emancipation Of human thought
and Tor the establishment Of intellectual
liberty, had its first fruits in Ireland in 3
deliberate attempt to produce 9 state Of
barbariem, by the banishment Of learn
m III, ,S5,1u unparalleled in the annals Of the
atrociti tiss of tyranny. III. n.
There seems no reason to doubt that ltl T
tthe .'one Irish man ot great promise to to'
!, Il alnosn t referred IN his letter
n, I tfos S1Il; David
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