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Oliver Almond

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Priest and writer, born in the diocese of Oxford. He is believed by Foley to have been the brother of the martyr, the Ven. John Almond; but Gillow has shown that this is probably a mistake. Oliver was educated at the English Colleges at Rome (1582-87) and Valladolid, and was a missionary in England. He presented the English College at Rome with a precious chalice. Some of his correspondence is preserved in the “Westminster Archives”, and he is conjectured by Gillow to have been the writer of a work entitled, “The Uncasing of Heresies, or the Anatomie of Protestancie, written and composed by O.A.” (Louvain?) 1623, 8vo.

Sources

FOLEY, Records S.J., VI., 153; GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., I, 27. Stonyhurst Mss. Collectanea, N. ii, 73.

Source Record

Author
Pollen, John Hungerford
Publication
The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1907.
Nihil Obstat
Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
Imprimatur
Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.