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1586. MORROUGH O’BRIEN, BISHOP OF EMLY
(From Lynch’s De Prœsulibus Hib., ii. 495)
HE belonged to a respectable family.
His extensive knowledge of theology and Canon Law, as well as his great virtue, caused him to be much esteemed.
On the 24th of January, 1567, he was appointed Bishop of Emly.
He was one of those sent over in 1568 to the King of Spain and the Pope by the Earl of Desmond and his confederates in Munster, to implore their aid in saving this country and the Catholic religion from oppression.
On the 26th March, 1578, Drury, president of Munster, wrote from Waterford to Walsingham, to inform him that a Liverpool vessel had brought from Calais some papistical vestments belonging to Morrough O’Brien the pretended Bishop of Emly, who had landed at Galway.[1]
In 1584 he was imprisoned in Dublin Castle, resolved to allow his limbs to waste away in the most foul den rather than deny his faith.
O’Mulrian, Bishop of Killaloe, writing to Cardinal DeComo, October 29th, 1584, after speaking of the sufferings and heroism of Dermot O’Hurley, says:
The Bishop of Emly, who is equally constant in the faith, is at present confined in the Dublin dungeons.
They are now preparing for him too the leaden boots, and mean to apply the fiery ordeal, as they did with the Archbishop,[2] that thus, if possible, they may compel him to abandon his religion.
He died in prison in Dublin, March 17th, 1586.
The Processus presented to the Consistory for the appointment of his successor says:
The See of Emly is vacant owing to the death of Morrough O’Brien, its last bishop, who died several years ago in the Dublin prisons for the faith.’[3]
There is some doubt about the precise year of his death.[4]
We give above that set down by most writers.
See also Holing, Rothe, Copinger, Molanus, Mooney, and Bruodin.
[1] Brady’s Episc. Succession, ii.35
[2] ‘i.e., Dermot O’Hurley. See P. 138, antea.
[3] Brady, Epis. Succ., ii.37
[4] Perrott, the Lord Deputy, in 1586, gave a list of the pledges then in the Castle of Dublin.
Among them is ‘Mortagh McBrian, Bishop of Emly, for usurpation from Rome, committed to prison by Myler M’Grath, Archbishop of Cashel.’ C.S.RI. (1586—1588), p. 230
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.
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By Manus Mac Meanmain(From Lynch’s De Prœsulibus Hib., ii. 495)
HE belonged to a respectable family.
His extensive knowledge of theology and Canon Law, as well as his great virtue, caused him to be much esteemed.
On the 24th of January, 1567, he was appointed Bishop of Emly.
He was one of those sent over in 1568 to the King of Spain and the Pope by the Earl of Desmond and his confederates in Munster, to implore their aid in saving this country and the Catholic religion from oppression.
On the 26th March, 1578, Drury, president of Munster, wrote from Waterford to Walsingham, to inform him that a Liverpool vessel had brought from Calais some papistical vestments belonging to Morrough O’Brien the pretended Bishop of Emly, who had landed at Galway.[1]
In 1584 he was imprisoned in Dublin Castle, resolved to allow his limbs to waste away in the most foul den rather than deny his faith.
O’Mulrian, Bishop of Killaloe, writing to Cardinal DeComo, October 29th, 1584, after speaking of the sufferings and heroism of Dermot O’Hurley, says:
The Bishop of Emly, who is equally constant in the faith, is at present confined in the Dublin dungeons.
They are now preparing for him too the leaden boots, and mean to apply the fiery ordeal, as they did with the Archbishop,[2] that thus, if possible, they may compel him to abandon his religion.
He died in prison in Dublin, March 17th, 1586.
The Processus presented to the Consistory for the appointment of his successor says:
The See of Emly is vacant owing to the death of Morrough O’Brien, its last bishop, who died several years ago in the Dublin prisons for the faith.’[3]
There is some doubt about the precise year of his death.[4]
We give above that set down by most writers.
See also Holing, Rothe, Copinger, Molanus, Mooney, and Bruodin.
[1] Brady’s Episc. Succession, ii.35
[2] ‘i.e., Dermot O’Hurley. See P. 138, antea.
[3] Brady, Epis. Succ., ii.37
[4] Perrott, the Lord Deputy, in 1586, gave a list of the pledges then in the Castle of Dublin.
Among them is ‘Mortagh McBrian, Bishop of Emly, for usurpation from Rome, committed to prison by Myler M’Grath, Archbishop of Cashel.’ C.S.RI. (1586—1588), p. 230
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.