a longo temporis intervallo inhabitatus a nostris fratribus Dominicanis, usque ad annum 1683, in quo illustrissimus Dominus Comes de Barrymore monstravit P. M. provinciali O'Keeffe, et Patri prædicatori-generali, Fr. Gulielmo Barry, ex archiviis suis, eundem fuisse fundatum a suis antecessoribus pro Fratribus Prædicatoribus, sive pro Dominicanis. Etsi hic dominus esset tunc hæreticus, procuravit tamen ut pater Barry nominaretur ac institueretur prior ejusdem loci, quod et factum est ab eodem provinciali. Verum adveniente rege nostro Jacobo semper memorando ad thronum, dictum locum tradidit memoratus comes cum omnibus pertinentibus inter manus patris præfati in usum et possessionem Ordinis Dominicani.

DE FRATRIBUS GLANOREnsibus.

In eodem comitatu est conventus Ordinis Prædicatorum super collem ad ripam fluminis, fundatus ab illustrissimis vicecomitibus de Fermoy. Hæc familia anglice vocatur Roche, estque Anglica origine; latine autem dicitur de Rupe. Inventa est constans immobiliter in fide Catholica, unde hodie spoliata est omnibus bonis. Fundationis istius non reperio initium apud ullum auctorem præ manibus existentem. Locus dicitur Gleann-uibhair, latine Glanura.

Hæc domus habuit plures gratiosos filios; quorum autem catalogum delineare possumus, sunt sequentes:

R. P. Fr. Theobaldus Roche docuit Lovanii, fuit magister studii anno 1654, ibique vixit usque ad annum 1657. Fuit vir doctus et religiosus.

R. P. Fr. David Roche, viguit in eodem conventu circa annum 1640, cum summo applausu ob bonitatem vitæ, profunditatem doctrinæ, facundiam in prædicando,

lyons, left uninhabited for a long time by our Dominican brethren, until the year 1683, when Lord Barrymore showed our provincial, Father O'Keeffe, and Father William Barry, from his archives, that the abbey had been founded by his ancestors for the Dominicans. Although this nobleman was then a Protestant, he nevertheless obtained from the same provincial the favour that Father Barry should be made prior of the abbey. Moreover on the coming to the throne of our ever-memorable King James, this nobleman gave the site of Castlelyons with all its appurtenances, into the hands of Father Barry, for the use and possession of the Dominican Order.

THE FRIARS of Glanworth.

In the same county there is a Dominican abbey" on a hill on the banks of a river which was founded by a Viscount Fermoy. This noble family of Roche (so-called in English) is of English origin. It was ever constant and firm in the Catholic faith, and in consequence is at the present time despoiled of all its rightful possessions. I cannot find the date of this foundation in any author I have at hand. The place is called Gleannubair in Irish.

This house had many distinguished members of whom we are able to catalogue the following:Father Theobald Roche taught at Louvain, was master of studies in 1654 and remained there till 1657. He was a learned and pious man.

Father David Roche flourished about the year 1640. He lived in the convent of Glanworth and acquired great fame by reason of his saintly life and his profound

et conversandi gratiosum et gravem modum; unde in tota Momonia colebatur ut vir meriti consummati.

R. P. Fr. Geraldus Gibbon studuit Burgis in Hispania et reversus in patriam erat insignis et valde persuasivus prædicator. Fuit prior sui nativi conventus Glanorensis et aliorum in Momonia et vestivit plures egregios juvenes. Denique persecutione atrocissima suborta anno 1681 coactus fugere ex patria, transnavigavit in Belgium et Bergis S. Winochii in conventu sui Ordinis pie abscessit e vita anno 1€85.

R. P. Fr. Constantinus O'Garvan, mihi notus a tenera juventute, studuit optime in conventu Beatissimæ Virginis de Atocha, Matriti. Regressus in patriam fuit diligens et laboriosus operarius in vinea Domini, prædicando assidue, docte et eleganter, vestiendo plures novitios et administrando pœnitentiæ sacramentum multis annis, nempe ab anno 1673, quando redivit ex Hispania usque ad 1699 in quo fuit expulsus e patria. Vivit nunc in archiepiscopatu Senonensi in Burgundia; est quidem maturus omnimodo et maxime mansuetus.

R. adm. P. M. Fr. Joannes O'Brian studuit Palentiæ in Castella Veteri. Fuit lector philosophiæ in collegio S. Crucis, Lovanii, etiam subprior et magister noviti orum ibidem. Deinde ivit in Hispaniam et tunc electus est prior Lovanii; et sub fine sequentis anni 1687, factus est secundarius et subsequenter primarius regens; quo officio expleto ivit in Lusitaniam, ubi docens theologiam creatus est magister. Inde meavit in Italiam, manetque, ut audio, Viterbii. Bonus vir est, et notior reverendissimo P. magistro nostro generali præsenti,

learning and eloquence and his grave and gracious address. Throughout Munster he was regarded as a man of consummate merit.

Father Gerald Gibbon studied at Burgos in Spain, and on his return home became a powerful and persuasive preacher. He was prior of his own convent of Glanworth and of other convents in Munster and received several excellent young men to the habit. Owing to the severe persecution of 1681, he was obliged to fly from Ireland. He came over to Belgium and died a good death in 1685, in the convent of our Order at Berg-St.-Winoc.

Father Constance O'Garvan, whom I have known from his childhood, studied with success in the convent of our Blessed Lady of Atocha near Madrid. When he returned home he was a diligent and painstaking labourer in the vineyard of the Lord, preaching constantly with unction and learning, clothing several novices with the habit and administering the sacrament of penance

for

many years, namely, from 1673, when he returned from Spain, until 1699 when he was expelled form the country. He is now living in the archdiocese of Soissons in Burgundy and is of mature experience and mild disposition.

Father John O'Brian studied at Palencia in Old Castile. He was appointed lector of philosophy at Holy Cross, Louvain, also subprior and master of novices there. He then went to Spain, and afterwards was elected prior of Louvain; towards the end of the following year, 1687, he was made second and afterwards first regent, on the completion of which office he went to Portugal, where while giving his theological course he was made master of theology. He then went to Italy, and is residing, I hear, at Viterbo. He is a good man

quam ut ego extendam calamum in ejus encomia; quod enim per se notum est, non indiget multa probatione.

R. P. Fr. Petrus O'Hennessy, ex eodem conventu, studuit philosophiam sub me in Gallia, et theologiam in Brittania Armorica. Finito studio fere usque modo, fuit ordinarie vicarius in aliqua ecclesia per Galliam. Est fervidus et zelosus in prædicando.

R. P. Fr. Ambrosius O'Garvan studuit in Hispania et peractis studiis laudabiliter, ut audivi, volens in patriam reducere, impeditus est a bello cruento Arausicano, et mansit Rupellæ in Gallia in conventu sui Ordinis a multis jam annis. Fertur quod sit insignis religiosus in omnibus.

Alter ejus frater, proficiscens in Hispaniam ad studia, captus est in mari a Mauris, et datus ut mancipium regulo Africano, qui obtulit illi filiam suam in uxorem, sub conditione avertendi se a fide ad sectam execrandum Mahometis. Filia enim adamavit acriter teneris adolescentis vultum speciosum; at ille recusavit constanter non solum aversionem a fide vera, sed et unionem ipsam etiam fidem servando. Unde post multa verbera et durissimam sortem, non potens regulus vincere ulla adversitate ejus miram fortitudinem, eum donavit pasha Turcico, cum quo mansit jugiter, semper fidelis fidei et votis. Ignoro autem an vivat modo; quia ab obsidione Viennensi nihil audivi de illo. Jesus Christus det illi perseverantiam finalem in eadem constantia ! Perillustris D. Carolus O'Conor, qui fuit capitaneus equestris cohortis in bello Hungarico, cum serenissimo domino Duce et Electore Bavariæ, scripsit hæc mihi ex Hungaria, dum essem Bruxellis, post completam regentiam Lovanii, anno 1690.