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FRANCIS MOLLOY

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(O'MOLLOY)

A theologian, grammarian born in King's County, Ireland, at the beginning of the
seventeenth century; died at St. Isidore's, Rome, about 1684. At an early age he
entered the Franciscan Order, and in the year 1642 he was appointed lecturer in
philosophy at the college of Klosterneuberg, near Vienna, and in 1645 passed to
the chair of theology at Gratz. Here he published a Scotist work on the
Incarnation.

About 1650 he was called to Rome and appointed primary professor of theology in
the College of St. Isidore. During his residence in Rome he wrote several works
on theological subjects and a long Latin poem on Prince Prosper Philip of Spain.
In 1676 he published an Irish catechism under the title of "Lucerna Fidelium seu
Fasciculus decerptus de Doctrina Christiana". This work, in the Irish language
and characters, was printed at the office of the Congregation of the Propaganda,
and was dedicated to Cardinal Altieri, Protector of Ireland. Father Molloy is
best known as the author of the first Latin-Irish printed grammar (Grammatica
Latino-Hibernica). This book also came from the press of the Propaganda (1677),
and is dedicated to Cardinal Massimi, a great friend of the Irish. It is highly
esteemed by writers on the Celtic languages, and is largely drawn upon by modern
writers on Irish grammar.


SOURCES

WADDING-SBARALEA, Scriptores Ord. Min. (Rome, 1806); O'REILLY, Irish Writers
(Dublin, 1820); BRENNAN, Eccl. History of Ireland; RYAN, Worthies of Ireland
(London, 1821); ANDERSON, Historical Sketches of the Native Irish (London,
1846); DOUGLAS HYDE, Literary History of Ireland (London, 1903); O'MOLLOY, Irish
Prosody, tr. O'FLANNGHAILE (Dublin, 1908).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Cleary, G. (1911). Francis Molloy. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10442b.htm

MLA citation. Cleary, Gregory. "Francis Molloy." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10442b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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