Peter Talbot (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran · 1913
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Peter Talbot was Archbishop of Dublin from 1669 until his death in a castle prison in 1680. Born at Malahide in 1620, he joined the Jesuits in Portugal, was ordained at Rome, and taught theology at Antwerp. During Charles II's exile his four brothers served the royal court, and Talbot himself attended the king, carrying private embassies to Lisbon, Madrid, and Paris. At Cologne he privately received Charles into the Catholic Church.
Named archbishop in 1669, he governed a persecuted flock, wrote pastoral letters and controversial works, and argued Dublin's primacy over Ireland. Broken by illness, he begged leave in 1677 to die in his own country, but the Popish Plot caught him. Arrested in October 1678, he spent two years in Dublin Castle's filth, refused a priest, and died in November 1680, comforted at the last by the imprisoned Oliver Plunkett.
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| CREATOR | Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 10 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |