John Colgan in a fresco created by Emmanuel di Como in St. Isidore's College, Rome, c. 1670
Personal
Born
1592
Priestown, near Carndonagh, County Donegal, Ireland
Died
15 January 1658(1658-01-15) (aged 65–66)
St Anthony's, Leuven
Religion
Christianity
Nationality
Irish
Notable work(s)
Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae
Education
Irish Franciscan College of St Anthony of Padua in Leuven
Profession
Hagiographer and historian
Organization
Order
Franciscan
Senior posting
Ordination
1618
Profession
Hagiographer and historian
John Colgan, OFM (Irish Seán Mac Colgan; c. 1592 – 15 January 1658),[1] was an Irish Franciscan friar noted as a hagiographer and historian.
^"Colgan, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5902. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the Franciscan, JohnColgan (Leuven, 1645) Passio sanctorum Petri et Pauli, a late version of the...
preserved among the records of the Franciscan Convent in Dublin, edited by JohnColgan as part of the Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae. According to that account, Kevin...
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Geel in Flanders, since JohnColgan identified them as the same person in the mid-seventeenth century. Both George Petrie and John O’Donovan of the antiquities...
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(ed. Whitley Stokes in R.S.), originally published by the Franciscan JohnColgan. The date of Eimhin's death has not been recorded; however, competent...
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Leuven in 1647 by JohnColgan, mainly at the expense of Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin. Due to a lack of money not all Colgan's writings could be...
" Dallan was the author of the former, "held in great repute", says JohnColgan, "on account of its gracefulness", and also of another Amra on St. Conall...
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January were also marked out as feast-days. The 17th-century scholar JohnColgan believed that a Life written for them had been witnessed in c. 1490 by...
abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the Franciscan, JohnColgan (Leuven, 1645). Aided by Hugh Ward, Stephen White, Míchél Ó Cléirigh...
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