8 May 1666: d. John Sinnich of #Cork professor of Theology at #Leuven & canon of Sint-Pieterskerk #otd He made his career as a vigorous defender of Jansenist opinions, & was Rector Magnificus of the university (googlebooks) He left money to support #Irish students to study law.
5 May 1565: John Fowler licensed as printer by the university of #Leuven#otd. That same year he would publish (as John Laet) Thomas Stapleton’s monumental & lyrical translation of Bede’s Historia
Given as a gift of thanks to Philip II for having waived the taxes & tariffs owed by the inhabitants of #Leuven for twelve years after the city was decimated by the plague in 1578.
6 Apr: date on which Celsus or Cellach, Abbot of #Armagh v. significant politician & reformer entered the Roman martyrology - he died on 1 Apr 1129, but due to a mistake in a martyrology in printed in #Leuven in 1563 was assigned #otd in the #Roman calendar
3 Apr 1607: The Bull of Paul V founding the #Irish#Franciscan College at #Leuven issued #otd But they had to subsist - as witnessed by this licence to import fish tax-free from #Irish fishing boats anchored at S. Vliet, 1628 (now in @ucdarchives
)
28 Mar 1564: John Fenn of Montacute #Somerset, future priest, translator & chaplain to the #English sisters of St Monica's #Louvain matriculates at the university of #Leuven#otd (eebo)
23 Mar 1654: Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire [Florentius Conrius] Archbishop of #Tuam who died in #Madrid in 1629 is reburied #otd in the College he founded at #Leuven in 1607
(The Papal bull of foundation & his signature from @ucdarchives )
17 Mar: A hymn to St. Patrick in Flemish. Possibly late17th/18thC From the archives of St Anthony’s #Irish#Franciscan College #Leuven now housed in @ucdarchives
20 Jan 1624: John Sinnich of #Cork matriculates at the University of #Leuven as a 'pauper' #otd He made his career there as a prominent theologian and, later on, as a vigorous defender of Jansenist opinions (googlebooks)
The reputation of Americans as entitled know-nothing tourists is largely undeserved... but I just read a hotel review written by an American woman who was incensed, INCENSED, that people in the Flemish city of #Leuven did not answer her in French and had not had the common courtesy of putting up French language signs and printing restaurant menus in French.
"You may as well be in The Netherlands. [...] Tip: Avoid the Flemish region of Belgium."
14 Jan 1611: Donatus Mooney, 1st guardian of St Anthony’s #Leuven elected Vicar Provincial of #Irish Franciscans #otd Mooney/Monaeus wrote a key history of #Irish province (bull of foundation
from ucdarchives
)
14 Jan 1576: Having been told neither his singing voice nor his constitution were up to the rigours of #Carthusian life at #Leuven, John Colleton of Milverton #Somerset enters the #English College at Douay #otd (Prado/BM)