The Irish Martyrs Podcast

Remembered 3rd April JOHN CORNELIUS, O.S.F. +1587


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(From Ward’s Synopsis.)

Comemorated on 3rd April, reported Date in 1580 when Nicholas Malby massacred the community of Monasteranenagh Cistercian Abbey.

HE was ordained priest in the year 1581, and belonged to the convent of Askeaton. 

He was seized by ten English soldiers by order of Nicholas Malby.[1]  

These inflicted three or four great wounds on his head, and another soldier pierced him through with a sword. 

The martyr died, invoking the glorious name of Christ, in the year 1587.

See also Wadding



[1] See p. 144, antea

Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.

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