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Who Wrote the Martyrium … Cornelii Dovenii, Cologne, 1614?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Benignus Millettt
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This short note is a belated answer to a request from David Rogers and Antony Allison. Some ten years ago they told me that they had discovered two copies of a hitherto-unknown passio of Bishop Conor O’Devany which had been published as a small quarto volume of twelve folios two years after his martyrdom. This is the Martyrium Rmi. D. F. Cornelii Dovenii, Dunensis et Connerensis episcopi, ex Seraphica D. Francisci Reg. Observant. familia assumpti, et R. D. Patritii Luchrani, Presbyteri, Dublinii in Hybernia, sub Arthuro Chichestriensi Prorege Anno M.D.CXII. 1. Februarii Dublinii faeliciter consummatum, Coloniae Agrippinae, excudebat Arnoldus Kempensis, 1614. I examined the copy preserved among the rare books in the British Library in London (shelf number G 5546). In addition to this and the copy in the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris, four other copies have been traced by them in recent years.

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British Catholic History , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , May 1985 , pp. 358 - 361
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1985

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1 In the Royal Library, the Hague; the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart; the Biblioteca Alessandrina, Rome; and the Biblioteca Vaticana. I owe this information to Antony Allison.

2 For O’Mahony see Canice Mooney, The Friars of Broad Lane: the Story o f a Franciscan Friary in Cork 1229–1977, revised by Bartholomew Egan (Cork, 1977), pp. 44–6.

3 Francis, O’Mahony, ‘Brevis synopsis provinciae Hyberniae Fratrum Minorum’, ed. Brendan Jennings in Analecta Hibernica, 6 (1934), p. 177.Google Scholar

4 See Cal Carew MSS, 1603–24 p. 286.

5 Louvain Papers 1606–1827, ed. Brendan Jennings (Dublin, 1968), p. 57.

6 See Brendan Jennings, ‘Irish names in the Malines ordination registers, 1602–1794’ in I. E.R., 5th series, 76 (1951), p. 407; 77 (1952), p. 366.

7 Louvain Papers, p. 56.

8 In 1607 Mooney became the first guardian of the newly-established St. Anthony’s College. Louvain Papers, p. 11. He was still in Flanders—at Antwerp on 10 May 1610—some three weeks after Fay entered the Order at Louvain. Ibid., p. 25.

9 Donagh, Mooney, ‘De provincia Hiberniae S. Francisci’, ed. Brendan Jennings in Anal. Hib., 6 (1934), pp. 126–7.Google Scholar

10 Moran, Spicilegium Ossoriense, 3, 49.

11 See Archiv. Hib., 14 (1949), p. 76; 15 (1950), pp. 92, 106.

12 Archiv. Hib., 14 (1949), p. 67.

13 Chichester to Cecil, Dublin, 6 February 1612, in London, P.R.O., S.P. 63/232/8. See Cal. S.P. Ire., 1611–14., p. 244.

14 Among such letters was one from Thomas Fleming, O.F.M., to someone who was not a Franciscan, written from Dundalk, 25 April 1612, which is now in Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 2158–67, ff. 198r–199r; printed in Moran, Spicil. Ossor., 3, 32–3.

15 It has recently been edited with an excellent critical introduction: Patrick J. Corish, ‘A contemporary account of the martyrdom of Conor O’Devany, O.F.M., Bishop of Down and Connor, and Patrick O’Loughran’ in Collectanea Hibernica, 26 (1984), pp. 13–19.

16 Ibid., p. 14.

17 Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS H. 71. Inf., ff. 137–9.

18 Corish, P. J., in Collect. Hib., 26 (1984), p. 14.Google Scholar

19 See Louvain Papers, pp. 54–8.