his return lived piously in his convent. He is living in exile in the convent of Saint John of the Angels.

Father Matthew Tully studied in Spain. Being exiled he is living in the convent of Quimper in Britanny : he is a model religious.

Father Thomas Tully, after finishing his studies in Spain, was assigned to San Sebastian in Vizcaya, where he is spending his time piously, as I am informed.

Father Teige O'Daly, having now finished his studies, is residing in the convent of the Incarnation, Bilbao: he is an upright and prudent man, as I am informed

Father Francis Davock, also an exile, is living in the convent of Corunna in Galicia.

Father James Davock studied in Spain, and was a very provident procurator for our refuge at Bilbao. He left that place to return home and is still remaining in France.

Father Edmond Burke, bachelor of sacred theology, studied at Pampeluna, Salamanca, and in the convent of Atocha near Madrid, with success. He was made lector for the college at Louvain and taught philosophy there. He was master of students, second regent, and now is first regent as well as prior of the college of Holy Cross.

Father Martin Delphin studied in Rome and is lector of philosophy here at present.

Father Thomas MacNevin studied in Spain and at Louvain, and is now chaplain of a regiment of the Spanish army in Belgium.

Father Anthony MacHugh, the younger, is a student at Grenoble.

Father Colman O'Shaughnessy is studying at Louvain.

R. P. Fr. Antonius de Burgo studuit in Italia; exul autem nuper factus, eo denuo remeavit et inservit xenodochio Mutinæ.

R. P. Fr. Augustinus Bermingham, ut audio, est lector Ferrariæ in Italia.

R. P. Fr. Clemens Bodkin vivit in conventu Sancti Joannis de Angelis in Gallia,

R. P. Fr. Joannes de Burgo, ex Clochroca, est in Hispania.

R. P. Fr. Humbertus de Burgo docuit duos cursus philosophiæ in Sancto Xisto, expletis studiis Abulæ Pampilonæ, et Granatæ per quatuor annos. Nunc est regens secundarius in Sancto Xisto.

R. F. Fr. Oliverius O'Davoran studuit bene in Hispania et est confessarius monialium Ordinis, Divione in Gallia.

R. P. Fr. Jacobus MacEgan est in Hispania.

R. P. Fr. Ricardus de Burgo est in Italia.

R. P. Fr. Petrus Furlong carceratus est a triennio in Anglia.

R. P. Fr. Joannes O'Moran moratur Estellæ in Navarra.

Vivunt ergo triginta duo ex hoc conventu Athenriensi.

DE FRATRIBUS PORTUMNENSIBUS.

Portumnæ in baronia de Longford, olim spectante ad Dominum O'Madden, baronem quidem perillustrem et antiquissimi stemmatis Hibernici, est conventus erectus ab eodem domino, sub patrocinio Sancti Petri Martyris, super ripam magni fluvii, nominati hibernice Sinainn, circa annum 1620. Fuit vicariatus sub conventu Athenriensi usque ad annum 1640. Tunc erectus in prioratum, habuit primum priorem R. adm. P. Fr.

Father Anthony Burke studied in Italy; and after the late exile, went there a second time and is ministering in the hospital at Modena.

Father Augustine Bermingham, as I hear, is a lector at Ferrara in Italy

Father Clement Bodkin is living in the convent of Saint John of the Angels in France.

Father John Burke of Clocheroke is in Spain.

Father Hubert Burke gave two courses of philosophy at Saint Sixtus's, after spending four years at his studies at Avila, Pampeluna and Granada. He is now second regent at Saint Sixtus's.

Father Oliver O'Davoran made good studies in Spain, and is confessor to the nuns of our Order at Dijon in France.

Father James MacEgan is in Spain.

Father Rickard Burke is in Italy.

Father Pierce Furlong has been in prison for the last three years in England.

Father John O'Moran is staying at Estella in Navarre. There are therefore thirty-two alive belonging to this community of Athenry.

THE FRIARS OF PORTUMNA.

At Portumna, in the barony of Longford [co. Galway], formerly belonging to the O'Madden, the illustrious chief of a very old Irish family, there is an abbey" erected by the same chief, under the title of Saint Peter Martyr, on the bank of the great river called Sinann in Irish, about 1620. It was a vicariate under the abbey at Athenry till 1640. Formed then into a priory, it had as its first prior Father Gerald Davock, who completed the whole

Geraldum Davock, qui complevit totum ædificium ac recepit multos novitios, ex quibus fuit :

:

R. P. Fr. Ricardus O'Madden, qui studuit gloriose Abulæ in Hispania, et bello Cromwelliano obstruente viam in Hiberniam, venit in Belgium ubi docuit Trajecti. Regrediente rege nostro ad thronum, ipse pariter regressus est in patriam, ubi ab appulsu usque ad annum mortis, assidue annuntiavit Verbum Dei. Post meum primum regressum in patriam, sæpius audivi eum prædicantem, nec novi unquam prædicatorem altioris energia non solum in nostro idiomate, sed nec in aliqua alia lingua quam noverim. Erat vere versatus in scientia sanctorum, et pariter erat valde mitis et affabilis. Creatus est magister a reverendo nostro generali, Roccaberti, toto capitulo provinciali unanimiter postulante, anno 1678. Fuit prior Limerici, Roscomaniæ, Lorrhæ, Dublinii et Portumnæ, et rexit cum singulari pietate et prudentia. Exercitu Catholico profligato in conflictu habito apud Aughrim, anno 1691, et hoste victorioso omnia devastante, iste bonus pater se abscondit in quadam palude fere inaccessibili, ubi continuans suam latitationem per quindecim dies transcursionis hostium, fugientibus a facie hostilis gladii omnibus debentibus et potentibus illi suppetias dare, inedia consumptus est. Consolatus ergo confessione sacramentali et extrema unctione per sacerdotem secularem, et se pœnitenter Jesu Christo commendans, obiit placide in eodem Salvatore nostro, in septuagesimo suæ ætatis anno, in mense Augusti prædicti anni 1691. Plantavit et propugnavit insigniter sacratissimi rosarii devotionem, et fuit summopere æstimatus ab omnibus.

R. A. P. Fr. Christophorus Walsh, ex eodem conventu, co-novitius prædicti magistri, studuit in Hispania, redux autem multa passus est sub Cromwello, citius enim

building and received many novices of whom were :

Father Richard O'Madden, who studied brilliantly at Avila, in Spain, and, as the Cromwellian war hindered his return to Ireland, came to Belgium, where he taught. at Utrecht. On the restoration of our king to the E throne, he also returned home, where from his coming till the year of his death, he assiduously preached the Word of God. After my first return home, I often heard him preach and I never heard a more energetic preacher, neither in our own language nor in any other language I was acquainted with. He was very well versed in the science of the saints and was also very meek and affable. He was made master by our general, Roccaberti, at the unanimous demand of the whole provincial chapter, in 1678. He was prior at Limerick, Roscommon, Lorrha, Dublin and Portumna and governed with singular piety and prudence. On the rout of the Catholic army in the battle of Aughrim, in 1691, and the plundering of everything by the victorious enemy, this good father hid himself in an almost impassable bog, where, keeping close during the fortnight the enemy took to pass, he wasted away through want, as all who should and were able to succour him were fleeing from the face of the enemy. Comforted by a secular priest with confession and extreme unction, and commending his soul with compunction to Jesus Christ, he calmly died in the Lord, in the seventieth year of his age, in the month of August of the year 1691. He was a distinguished founder and promoter of the devotion of the Holy Rosary and was greatly esteemed by everybody.

Father Christopher Walsh, of the same community, a fellow-novice of the above mentioned master, studied in Spain and on his return suffered a great deal under