Francis Bermingham, O.F.M., fl. 1652, was an Irish

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and scholar. Bermingham was a descendant of

Meyler de Bermingham Meyler de Bermingham (d. before 1275) was an Anglo-Irish lord, founder of Athenry. Ancestry Meyler was a great-grandson of Robert de Bermingham who is said to have obtained a grant of Offaly from Strongbow or Henry II about 1172. Robert's son ...

(1275), the founder of Athenry. Popularly known as ''Franciscus a Galvia'' (Francis of Galway), he was born there early in the 17th century. Upon joining the Franciscan Order as a young man, he was sent abroad to be educated. He taught

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and in

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was Jubilate lecturer in

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at the College of St. Isidore, as well as serving as Definitor General of his Order. He was named amongst those Franciscan friars banished from their convent at Galway in 1652.

Bibliography

* ''De Sanctissima Trinitate'', Rome.

References

* ''History of Galway'',

James Hardiman James Hardiman (1782–1855), also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway. Hardiman is best remembered for his '' History of the Town and County of Galway'' (1820) and '' Irish Minstrelsy'' (1831), one of the f ...

, 1820. * ''Galway Authors'', Helen Mahar, 1976. Christian clergy from Galway (city) Irish male writers Irish Friars Minor 17th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Franciscan scholars

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