Counter‐Reformation Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...‐Reformation . The revival of Catholicism in Ireland, as elsewhere in western Europe, was not just a reaction to Protestantism, but the continuation of a movement already visible before the Reformation . The impact of the 15th‐century Observant movement on the religious orders had enabled the Franciscans and to a lesser extent the Dominicans to present real opposition to Henry VIII's reformation. The continuity provided by these friars, together with the political alienation wrought by the Tudor conquest and the overwhelmingly colonial nature of...
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Propaganda Fide, congregation of Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...Fide, congregation of , the central government department of the Catholic church, charged with the direction of missionary activity in Protestant and non‐Christian countries. A product of the Counter‐Reformation , it met as a congregation from 1622 , centralizing missionary activity in an era of unprecedented European expansion overseas. Because post‐Reformation Ireland did not have a properly established hierarchy it fell under Propaganda's jurisdiction until the curial reforms of 1908 . Propaganda's influence was important as it handled Irish affairs...
missions Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...priests. Originating in the Counter‐Reformation , they became popular in Ireland from the 19th century. Organized at intervals of several years, they were designed to encourage confession, deepen devotion, and catechize. Confraternities were often set up to continue the mission's work in the longer term. Missions contributed greatly to the standardization of religious practice in 19th‐century Ireland sometimes called the devotional revolution , and, in mid‐century, were often part of local offensives against the Second Reformation . Since the 1960s missions...
O'Devany, Conor (1533–1612) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...who was also convicted and executed. Upper‐class Dubliners publicly displayed their Catholicism as O'Devany processed to the gallows and ended up in an undignified scramble for relics. Far from cowing the recusants , the government found itself confronting a triumphant Counter‐Reformation . Hiram...
O'Sullivan Beare, Philip Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...Beare, Philip , Catholic historian, poet, and polemicist, born in Co. Cork in the 1590s and last heard of in Portugal in the 1630s. O'Sullivan Beare's major work, Historiae Catholiciae Iberniae compendium ( 1621 ), is an important reflection of Irish Counter‐Reformation mentality, with miracles, prophecy , and providence to the fore. This patriotic history gives pride of place to the role of his own family—his uncle Donal O'Sullivan's heroic defence of Dunboy and epic wintertime march to Leitrim after the defeat at Kinsale . He launched...
Wadding, Luke (c.1628–1691) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...succeeded to the bishopric in 1678 but was not consecrated until 1683/4 because of the tensions associated with the Popish Plot . Like Oliver Plunkett he was one of a new generation of bishops appointed to resume the work of reorganizing the Irish church along Counter‐Reformation lines after the disruption of the Cromwellian years and the uncertainties of the period immediately following the Restoration . His A Small Garland of Pious and Godly Songs was published in Ghent in 1684...
MacMahon, Heber (1600–50) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...Heber ( 1600–50 ), Catholic bishop of Clogher, a representative of the militant Counter‐Reformation . A product of the Irish colleges in Flanders, he recruited mercenaries for continental service under Owen Roe O'Neill . MacMahon was a delegate to the Synod of Kells ( March 1642 ), which declared the rising of 1641 ‘a just and pious undertaking’, and subsequently member of the confederate supreme council. Supporters of the Ormond peace tried to appoint him a foreign ambassador but he refused to go and later broke with them over the ...
Reformation Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...Europe, and by the alienation of both Anglo‐Irish and native Irish from the Dublin government in the later 16th century, as policies of colonization and Anglicization displaced native inhabitants. ( See counter‐reformation .) The consolidation of the official Reformation under James I (1603–1625) The reign of James I has been termed the ‘Second Reformation’—the period when the Church of Ireland finally established a presence throughout the whole of Ireland. Bolstered by the assertion of royal power after the defeat of Hugh O'Neill , by the plantation of ...
parish registers Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...survive for between 600 and 700 parishes, most of them beginning in the early 19th century of later, but with about a quarter covering some part of the period before 1800 . Although the keeping of registers was required by the Council of Trent , the slow progress of the Counter‐Reformation , and the effects of recurrent political disruption, have meant that only a handful of Catholic parish registers, generally from urban areas, exist for any part of the 18th century. In many parishes, particularly in western districts, registers were not kept until the 1840s...
Rothe, David (1573–1650) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...David ( 1573–1650 ), Counter‐Reformation bishop and apologist. Scion of a Kilkenny merchant family, he was prefect of the Irish College at Douai and secretary to Peter Lombard at Rome, before being sent home to Ossory in 1609 , as vicargeneral and, from 1620 , as bishop. In brilliant polemics Rothe upheld the loyalty of Irish Catholics to King James during Chichester 's deputyship, while detailing instances of persecution and martyrdom ( Analecta sacra , 1616–19 ), and defended Ireland's ecclesiastical heritage against Scottish usurpation (...
Séminaire de Montréal Reference library
Brian Young
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
...was prominent in the Montreal region in establishing preparatory colleges and training Roman Catholic priests, and in working with Natives particularly at its seigneury of Two Mountains. The mother house was founded in Paris in 1641 as one manifestation of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The interest in New France of the Sulpicians, as their members were known, dates from the founding of Montreal. Four Sulpicians came to Canada in 1657 , and in 1663 the Séminaire de Montréal was named seigneur of the Island of Montreal and its priests were granted...
Trent, Council of (1545–63) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...Council of ( 1545–63 ). The centrepiece of the Counter‐Reformation , the council confirmed Catholic doctrine vis‐à‐vis Protestantism, strengthened ecclesiastical discipline, and attacked superstition in popular culture. Three Irish bishops, Thomas O'Herlihy ( Ross ), Donal McGonigle ( Raphoe ), and Eugene O'Harte ( Achonry ), attended the final session but played no significant role in proceedings. The Tridentine decrees were promulgated in Ireland at provincial synods in Connacht in 1566 and Ulster in 1587 . Their establishment in practice...
Lombard, Peter (1554–1625) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...Peter ( 1554–1625 ), the major Irish figure in the Counter‐Reformation . An Old English native of Waterford, he studied at Louvain, graduating first in the school of arts ( 1575 ) and staying on to become professor of philosophy and theology. On university business in Rome in 1598–9 , he doubled as Hugh O'Neill 's agent and wrote De regno Hiberniae sanctorum insula commentarius (published posthumously 1633 ) to encourage papal support. Talent‐spotted by Pope Clement , he was made archbishop of Armagh instead of O'Neill's Ulster candidate....
