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An Irish bishop in penal times : the chequered career of Sylvester Lloyd OFM, 1680-1747 /

This book is a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the life of an Irish Franciscan friar and bishop of the early eighteenth century. Against a background of periodic repression of catholics by the authorities, Sylvester Lloyd emerges as a kind of Pimpernel figure, gravely in cahoots with the Jaco...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fagan, Patrick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dublin : Four Courts Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
Lloyd, Sylvester, > 1680-1747.
Catholic Church > Ireland > Bishops > Biography.
Franciscans > Bishops > Biography.
Ireland > Church history > 18th century.
Église catholique > Évêques > Biographies.
Irlande > Histoire religieuse > 18e siècle.
Lloyd, Sylvester, > 1680-1747
Catholic Church.
Franciscans.
Bishops.
Ireland.
Lloyd, Sylvester, > (1680-1747)
1700-1799
Catholicism > Bishops.
Biographies.
Church history.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Road to Damascus
  • 2. Montpellier catechism
  • 3. Franciscan
  • 4. quest for a mitre begins
  • 5. question of an oath
  • 6. Congress of Soissons
  • 7. Bishop of Killaloe
  • 8. Bishop of Waterford and Lismore.