Richard Lynch (15 November 161018 March 1676) was an Irish

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and

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. Born in

Galway Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lo ...

to one of the

Tribes of Galway The Tribes of Galway ( ga, Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) were 14 merchant families who dominated the political, commercial and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late 19th centuries. They were the families ...

, he was educated by the Jesuits at Compostela and joined the society in 1630. In 1637 he was made rector of the Irish College in

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

. He died at

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritag ...

in 1676 having lived most of his life in

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. The library at Salamanca holds many of his theological works in manuscript form, many of which were written in

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...

Bibliography

* ''Universa Philosophia Scholastica'', i, ii, iii, Lyons, 1654 * ''Sermones varios'', Salamanca, 1670 * ''De Deo ultimo fine'', i, ii, Salamanca, 1671 * ''Sermon Panezyrico a la Canonizacion de

Francisco de Borja Francisco de Borja y Navarro de Alpicat (1441 – 4 November 1511) was a Spanish cardinal, and the seventh of ten cardinal-nephews created by Pope Alexander VI. Biography Borja was born in 1441 in Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, from the Aragones ...

, con circumstancias de la rudificacion de el Colegio de la Compania de Jesus, de Medina del Campo, despeus de su grema, y Jubileo de quarenta horas'', Salamanca, 1674.

References

* * ''The Tribes of Galway:1124-1642'', Adrian Martyn, Galway, 2016. 1611 births 1676 deaths 17th-century Irish Jesuits Irish emigrants to Spain People from Galway (city) 17th-century Irish Roman Catholic theologians Christian clergy from County Galway {{theologian-stub

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