Life
?-1631 [bapt. Christopher]; b. Dublin, or nr. Dublin; met Hugh Ward in Paris, while travelling to Rome with Fr. Hugh MacCaghwell; wrote series of letters to Ward recording his sebsequent discovery of Irish manuscripts in monasteries in the way; defended his doctoral thesis in Rome; visited principal libraries of Italy, France, Belgium and Germany; murdered in Prague by Lutheran fanatics; wrote lives of abbots. Letters on Irish Hagiography to Hugh Ward are printed in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record; wrote a life of Aodh Mac Aingil as Vita Reverendi ...[ &c] (Louvain 1626); his uncle Thomas Fleming, OMF, Archbishop of Dublin, was
dedicatee of John Colgan’s Trias Thaumaturga; there is a short life in Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica, Irish Worthies (1821), Vol. II, p.144. RR DIW
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Notes
Irish College: ‘Patrick Fleming on his way from Louvain to Rome and Hugh Ward [Mac an Bhaird] on his way from Salamanca to Louvain met at the Irish College in Paris [in 1623], Father Thomas Messingham, who was preparing for publication, his Florilegium … [ &c.]’ (See De Burca Catalogue 44; 1997.)
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