Thomas Everard, Everett or Everat (1560–1633) was an English Jesuit.
Life
Everard was born at
Linstead
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Description
Close to Ewarton and Windalco Ewarton works, a large alumin ...
,
Suffolk
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, on 8 February 1560. He was the son of Henry Everard, a gentleman who suffered imprisonment for the Catholic faith, and of his wife, Catherine Gawdyr. After pursuing his studies at home for about six years and a half he was sent to
Jesus College, Cambridge
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,
where he remained for a year and a half. Becoming acquainted with Father John Gerard he made the spiritual exercises with him in London. Then he proceeded to
Rheims
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Founded by ...
, and was admitted into the
English College there in 1592.
He studied philosophy and divinity at Rheims and
Courtray
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It is the capital and larges ...
, and was ordained priest 18 September 1592. Being admitted into the
Society of Jesus
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he began his novitiate at
Tournai
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on 4 June 1593, and after his simple vows he was sent, 17 June 1595, to the college at
Lille
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. For several years he was minister at the
college of St. Omer
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and at
Watten
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Places
* Watten, Nord, a commune in the Nord ''département'' of France
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* Watten, Highland, a village in Cai ...
, and socius and master of novices at
Louvain
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. He took his last vows as a spiritual coadjutor in 1604. He was in England for a time in 1603–4, and had a marvellous escape from arrest. About 1617 he revisited this country, and exercised spiritual functions in
Norfolk
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and
Suffolk
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. A year after his arrival he was apprehended and detained in prison for two years. He was banished from the kingdom in March 1620–1 by virtue of a warrant from the lords. On endeavouring to return from exile in July 1623 he was seized at the port of
Dover
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, but was eventually released on bail with the loss of his "books, pictures, and other impertinences".
Everard's name appeared in
John Gee
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's list of priests and Jesuits of the London area in 1624, and also in a catalogue seized at
Clerkenwell
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Clerkenwell was an ancient parish from the mediaeval period onwards, and now forms the south-western part of the London Borough of Islington.
The well after which it was named was redisco ...
, the London residence of the order, in 1628. He was then a missioner in Suffolk. He died in London on 16 May 1633.
There is an engraved portrait of him in
Matthias Tanner
Matthias Tanner is a Czech Society of Jesus, Jesuit and writer, born at Pilsen in Bohemia, 28 February 1630; died at Prague, 8 February 1692.
Biography
Matthias Tanner entered the Society of Jesus in 1646. The greatest part of his life was spe ...
's ''Societas Jesu Apostolorum Imitatrix''.
Works
* ''Meditations on the Passion of Our Lord'', St. Omer, 1604, 1606, 1618; a translation from the Latin of Father
Fulvius Androtus.
* ''The Paradise of the Soul, and a treatise on Adhering to God'', translated from the Latin of
Albert the Great
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, bishop of Ratisbon, St. Omer, 1606 and 1617, frequently reprinted.
* Translation of Father
Francis Arias's ''Treatise on Perfection'', St. Omer, 1617.
* ''The Mirrour of Religious Perfection'', from the
Italian
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of Father
Luca Pinelli
Luca Pinelli (1542 Melfi; 1607 Naples) was an Italian jesuit and theologian.
Life
Born at Melfi, Basilicata, to a family from the Republic of Genoa, in 1562 he entered the Society of Jesus, where he taught theology and philosophy. Subsequent ...
, St. Omer, 1618. Originally a translation from
Jean Gerson
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.
* ''Treatise on the Method of Living Well'', a translation, St. Omer, 1620, 12mo.
* Translation of
St. Francis Borgia's ''Practice of Christian Works'', St. Omer, 1620, 12mo.
* ''Meditations upon the Holy Eucharist'', from the Italian of Luca Pinelli, St. Omer, 1622, 12mo. The original work was by Jean Gerson.
* Translation of ''A Manual on Praying Well'' by Father
Peter Canisius
Peter Canisius ( nl, Pieter Kanis; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest. He became known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Swit ...
, St. Omer, 1622, 12mo.
* Translation of Father
Ludovicus de Ponte's ''Compendium of Meditations'', St. Omer, 1623, 12mo.
* Translation of Father
Peter Ribadeneira
Pedro de Ribadeneira S.J. ( Toledo, 1 November 1527 – Madrid, 10 September or 22 September 1611) was a Spanish hagiographer, Jesuit priest, companion of Ignatius of Loyola, and a Spanish Golden Age ascetic writer.
Life
Pedro was born at To ...
's treatise, ''De Principe Christiano'', St. Omer, 1624, 12mo.
* ''A Dialogue on Contribution and Attrition'', which passed through four editions.
* ''The Eternall Felicitie of the Saints'', translated from the Latin of
Cardinal Bellarmin. The first edition was probably printed at
Roger Anderton's secret press in
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
about 1624. It was reprinted at St. Omer in 1638, 12mo.
References
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1560 births
1633 deaths
People from Suffolk Coastal (district)
16th-century English Jesuits
17th-century English Jesuits
Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
16th-century English male writers
17th-century male writers
16th-century English Roman Catholic theologians
17th-century English Roman Catholic theologians