1. Luke Wadding, was an Irish Franciscan friar and historian.
12 Facts About Luke Wadding
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Luke Wadding was ordained priest in 1613 by Joao Manuel, Bishop of Viseu, and in 1617 he was made President of the Irish College at the University of Salamanca, and Master of Students and Professor of Divinity.
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Luke Wadding gave the college a library of 5,000 printed books and 800 manuscripts, and thirty resident students soon came.
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Luke Wadding served as rector of the college for 15 years.
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Luke Wadding was an enthusiastic supporter of the Irish Catholics during the Irish Confederate Wars, and his college became the strongest advocate of the Irish cause in Rome.
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Luke Wadding commissioned artworks for St Isidore's church in Rome.
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Luke Wadding's life was written by Francis Harold, his nephew.
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Duns Scotus 8.
Luke Wadding founded the Pontifical Irish College for Irish secular clergy.
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The work was compiled in 1639, when Luke Wadding was in Rome, and updated in the 1890s.
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Whilst containing a number of spurious works, as of 2021, with the new Vatican Edition of Scotus yet to be completed, the Luke Wadding Edition remains an important and influential collection.
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The figure of Luke Wadding was moved to a position at the entrance to the French Church, Waterford on Greyfriars.
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Luke Wadding published a Bibliotheca of Franciscan writers, an edition of the works of Duns Scotus, and the first collection of the writings of St Francis of Assisi.