12th July 1617 - Thomas Fitzgerald OSF
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This episode discusses the martyrdom of Thomas Fitzgerald, a Franciscan commissary and visitor of the Irish province, in 1617.
The martyrdom in 1617 of Franciscan Thomas Fitzgerald commissary & visitor of the Irish province. (From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p.499) HE was descended from the very ancient family of the Earls of Desmond.[1] From his very childhood he was so virtuous that he was considered a saint. When he was enrolled in the Seraphic Order, not only did he strengthen himself by vows in the virtues which he practised in the secular state, but he added others to them. He completed his studies...
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