Lanigan, John

John Lanigan was born in Cachel ( Tipperary , Ireland). He came from the Ui Langachain of Hy Coonagh clan near Crotta Cliach , and was the eldest son of Thomas Lanigan, a school teacher, and his wife, Mary Anne Dorkan, very early on from his father and at Cashel's private Protestant classical school, similar to Catholic schools that were banned in Ireland.

In 1776, he went to the College of Ireland, Rome , to study as a priest, and after a quick course he was ordained. On the advice of Pietro Tamburini ( Italian: it: Pietro Tamburini ). He left Rome and went to the Department of Church History and Hebrew at the University of Padova . In 1786, he refused to take part in the famous diocesan synod in Pistoia , although he was offered the place of a synodal theologian.

In 1793, he published his work Institutionum biblicarum pars prima (Pavia), dedicated to the history of the books of the Old and New Testaments, the two other alleged parts of which were never written. On June 28, 1794, he received a doctorate in theology from his university.

During the Napoleonic invasion two years later, he returned to Ireland and arrived in Cork in poverty. His appeal for financial assistance to Francis Moylan , Bishop of Cork, was not heard, probably because the bishop suspected him of Jansenism , based on his connections with Tamburini and the clergy of Pavia. A similar result ended his petition in his native diocese, and he went to Dublin, where he was taken to the post of assistant priest by the vicar general, Fr. Hamil, a former student during his time in Rome. Soon after, he was received by the professor of the Old and New Testaments and Hebrew at Maynooth College on the recommendation of the archbishops of Aramah and Dublin. Dr. Moylan, however, set an obstacle. He suggested that Lanigan first sign the formula, which served to test the fidelity to Catholicism of the numerous French priests who had fled to Ireland at that time. Lanigan, seeing no excuses, refused and resigned.

On May 2, 1799, Lanigan took over as assistant librarian and foreign correspondent for the Royal Society of Dublin , and began work on his Ecclesiastical History of Ireland from the first introduction of Christianity among the Irish to the beginning of the thirteenth century , which, however, was not published until 1822 (4 vols., 8vo, Dublin). In his work, the sloppiness of Mervyn Archdall , Edward Ledwich , Giralda of Cumbria and other authors involved in church history of Ireland were corrected. In his work, Lanigan supported the theory of the pagan origin of round Irish towers .

In 1808, he, Edward O'Reilly , William Halliday, and father Paul O'Brien founded the Gaelic Society in Dublin, which was the first attempt to preserve the Irish language. He often wrote in the press in favor of the religious equality of Catholics and fiercely fought against the proposed royal veto for the appointment of bishops ( Royal Veto ) in connection with the Irish episcopal elections.

In 1813, his health began to deteriorate, and he returned to his native Cough. He recovered enough to complete his duties in Dublin, but he had to go to a sanatorium in the Dublin area of Finglas , where he died. His grave, located on a nearby church graveyard, is marked with a cross with Irish and Latin inscriptions, erected in 1861 by his literary admirers.

In addition to the works mentioned above, he owns

• "De origine et progressu hermeneuticae sacre" (Pavia, 1789);
• "Saggio sulla maniera d'insegnare ai giovani ecclesiastici la scienza de 'libri sacri" (Pavia), written in an energetic and eloquent language;
• "The Present State ... of the Church of England and the Means of effecting a Reconciliation of the Churches", preface to "Protestant Apology for the Roman Catholic Church" (Dublin, 1809), by "Christianus" [Wm. Talbot].

He prepared for publication the first edition of the breviary , printed in Ireland, and edited the work of Alban Butler Alban Butler's Meditations and Discourses , which appeared in 1845.

• • Fitzpatrick, Irish Wits and Worthies (Dublin, 1873).
  • Dublin Review (December 1847), 489.

His writings

• Lanigan, John (1822), The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland , vol. I, Dublin: Graisberry , < https://books.google.com/?id=8Y1IAAAAMAAJ > . Retrieved August 9, 2008.  
• Lanigan, John (1822), The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland , vol. II (2nd ed.), Dublin: J. Cumming (published 1829) , < https://books.google.com/?id=w08TAAAAYAAJ > . Retrieved August 9, 2008.  
• Lanigan, John (1822), The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland , vol. III (2nd ed.), Dublin: J. Cumming (published 1829) , < https://books.google.com/?id=PFATAAAAYAAJ > . Retrieved August 9, 2008.  
• Lanigan, John (1822), The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland , vol. IV, Dublin: Graisberry , < https://books.google.com/?id=gIxIAAAAMAAJ > . Retrieved August 9, 2008.  

About him

• Fitzpatrick, William John (1873), Irish wits and worthies; including Dr. Lanigan, his life and times, with glimpses of stirring scenes since 1770 , Dublin: James Duffy, Sons, & Co , < https://archive.org/details/irishwitsworthie00fitzuoft > . Retrieved August 9, 2008.