Francisco de Ribera was a Spanish

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priest from Toledo, a Doctor of Theology, whom

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appointed as

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, Ireland, on 14 September 1587.M. Comerford, ''Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin'' (Dublin, James Duffy & sons,

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, pp. 59-60. Leighlin being under English control at this time, Ribera resided in the

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, where he built an infirmary. He died in Antwerp on 10 September 1604.E. B. Fryde, D. E. Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy (eds.), ''Handbook of British Chronology'', third edition (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 437.

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