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WADDING, LUKE (1588–1657)

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WADDING, LUKE (1588–1657)

WADDING, See also:
LUKE
LUKE, GOSPEL OF ST
LUKE (1588–1657) , Irish Franciscan See also:

FRIAR (from the Lat. (rater, through the Fr. frere)

friar and historian, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

WATERFORD

Waterford in 1588 and went to study at See also:

LISBON (Lisboa)

Lisbon. He became a Franciscan in 1607, and in 1617 he was made See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Irish See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College at See also:

Salamanca. The next See also:

YEAR

year he went to See also:

Rome and stayed there till his See also:

DEATH

death. He collected the funds for the See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the Irish College of St Isidore in Rome, for the See also:

EDUCATION

education of Irish priests, opened 1625, and for fifteen years he was the See also:

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector. A voluminous writer, his See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

WORK

work was the Annales Minorum in 8 See also:

FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio vols. (1625–1654), re-edited in the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century and continued up to the year 1622; it is the classical work on Franciscan See also:

HISTORY

history. He published also a Bibliotheca of Franciscan writers, an edition of the See also:

WORKS

works of See also:

DUNS

Duns Scotus, and the first collection of the writings of St See also:

Francis of See also:

ASSISI (anc. Asisium)

Assisi. (E. C.

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