ABIRCROMBÆUS, PATRICIUS [SSNE 7866]

Surname

ABIRCROMBÆUS, ABERCROMBIE, ABERCROMBY, ABYRCROMBY

First name

PATRICIUS, PATRICK

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

STUDENT

Education

SEMINARY

Religion

CATHOLIC, JESUIT

Text source

Patricius Abircrombæus matriculated at the Seminary of Braunsberg in the diocese of Ermland (Warmia) on 6 August 1596. He was blamed for some ill-speaking, and so fled in secret on 5 May 1601. He eventually returned, repented and became a Jesuit priest. He died in Poltava in 1611.

 

Sources: Alphons Bellesheim, History of the Catholic Church of Scotland from the Introduction of Christianity to the Present Day, translated with notes and additions by D. Oswald Hunter Blair, Vol. 3 [Appendix VI: Scottish Students in the Seminary of Braunsberg (diocese of Ermland, 1579-1642)] (Edinburgh, 1889), p. 456.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

PRUSSIA, POLAND-LITHUANIA, BRAUNSBERG (BRANIEWO)

Arrived 1596-08-06

Departed 1601-05-05

Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC, ECCLESIASTICAL

POLAND-LITHUANIA, POLTAVA

Arrived 1611-01-01

Departed 1611-12-31

Purpose ECCLESIASTICAL?