Vincent Dillon was an Irish Dominican

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, who died 1651. Vincent Gerald Dillon was a native of Athenry who lived in London during the 1640s. He had formerly been a vicar at the Irish Dominican convent( Corpo Santo) in

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. He became a chaplain to the Irish royalist forces in during the

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in England. According to O'Reilly, he was taken prisoner by the

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s after the "Battle of York", possibly referring to the Battle of Marston Moor. He was kept in prison in

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where he died of hardship and hunger about 1651.

References

* ''Irish Dominicans at Lisbon before 1700: a Biographical Register'', Hugh Fenning, in ''

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'', pp. 27–65 volume 42, 2000 * O'Reilly, Myles W.P.,''Memorials of Those Who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland'', 1889
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