Patrick O'Hely - Knowledge (XXG)

627: 669:, "Being surrounded there surrendered to Roe by whom he was dismissed in safety with an injunction to remember his words, that the Queen and her officers were dealing unjustly with the Irish; that the Catholic religion was contaminated by impiety; that holy bishops and priests were inhumanely and barbarously tortured; that Catholic noblemen were cruelly imprisoned and ruined; that wrong was deemed right; that he himself had been treacherously and perfidiously kidnapped; and that for these reasons he would neither give tribute or allegiance to the English." 45: 1115: 1044: 1103: 1091: 447:. The bishop replied that he could not barter his faith for life or honours. Bishop O'Hely also confessed that he belonged to the Franciscan Order and was the Bishop of Mayo. He explained that his reasons for returning to Ireland were purely religious and that his mission was always intended to be a peaceful one. 583:

Bishop O'Hely and Friar Conn O'Ruairc were hanged from a tree just outside the gates of Kilmallock on 22nd/31rd August 1579. Their bodies were left suspended from this improvised gallows for fourteen days, during which both bodies were used for target practice by the local military garrison of the

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Also according to Cardinal Moran, "When the martyr-prelate was being hurried to execution, he turned to Drury, and warned him that before many days he himself should appear before the tribunal of God to answer for his crimes."

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Cardinal Moran continues, however, "For a considerable time they were subjected to these tortures, which the holy confessors bore patiently for the love of Christ, mutually exhorting one another to constancy and perseverance."

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Although little or nothing is known of his early life, Patrick O'Hely is believed to have been born between 1543 and 1546. He later described himself in a letter dated 24 June 1575, and which survives in the

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empowered Bishop O'Hely to officiate in adjoining dioceses, if no Catholic bishop were at hand, and supplied him generously with money. At Paris he took part in public disputations at the

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during his youth in Ireland and was sent, due to his great intellectual brilliance, four years after his profession to Rome. In 1562, O'Hely arrived in Rome and presented himself to

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English use of torture by the driving of needles and spikes under the finger- and toenails was, "one torment that people in Spain imagine to be that which will be worked by the

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Despite his own role in their arrest, the Rebel Earl of Desmond arranged for both Franciscans' bodies to be buried in the monastery Church of their Order in

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as the most dreadfully cruel of them all." The Cardinal further explained that whenever a Recusant or Catholic priest would not "confess" or take the

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roomed from 1578-1579 with Patrick O'Hely in Paris and became his late friend's first biographer. According to Bouchier, O'Hely received a classical

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O'Hely replied, "I repeat what I have said and I am ready if necessary to die for that sacred truth." Friar O'Rourke replied in the same strain.

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under other forms of torture, the iron spikes would be used, "so that the nails of their fingers and toes were turned back."

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Drury responded, "And do you dare to defend the authority of the Pope against the laws of the Queen and Parliament?!"

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The torture and martyrdom of Bishop O'Hely and Friar Conn remains highly significant as a contributing cause for the

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Cardinal Moran writes of Drury, however, "On the fourteenth day after, this unhappy man expired in great agony, at

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Castle, where, in the Earl's absence, the Countess entertained them. Next day, they departed for

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monastery in Rome, O'Hely was proposed to the Pope at the 4 July 1575 consistory meeting for the

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was divided, and the Earl had withdrawn from the scene of action. The bishop and his companion,

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for invading Ireland he made no answer, and thereupon was delivered to torture.

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Excerpt from Chapters towards a History of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth

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In Spain, O'Hely first studied grammar for two years in the Friary at

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During his residence in Spain, O'Hely became a fluent speaker of the

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At first, he offered to secure Bishop Ó hÉilí in his see for the

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and was by all accounts a very gifted and effective preacher.

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is believed by some historians to be a shorthand rendering of

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later claimed the merit afterwards, gave information to the

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