Best Manus Mac Meanmain Podcasts (2025)

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1st November 1581 MAURICE EUSTACE 8:17

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(From Holing’s Compendium.[1]) MAURICE EUSTACE, of an illustrious family, student of theology and Master of Arts, became a novice of the Society of Jesus at Bruges. When his father[2], a rich powerful man, learned this, he was displeased and wrote to the Superiors of the Order, asking them to send his son to him, as he was his heir and the only son…

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Re-capture, trial & escape from Dublin Castle of Richard Creagh, Primate of All-Ireland 9:02

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While waiting for a ship to Ireland, he was entertained by a priest. [1] He was called to exorcise a woman, and he was going through the prayers, perchance,’ said the serpent, you threaten me, relying on the aid of that Irish Bishop.’ He was astonished, and he told the Primate what what the devil had said to him, and he besought him to pray for the…

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50B Richard Creagh, Escape from the Tower of London 31:18

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He was consecrated, and reached Ireland.[1] He was seized, taken to London, and shut in the Tower.[2] His courage to endure increased day by day. ‘The faithful man,’,[3] ‘should grow in faith while suffering affliction.’ [4] The Archbishop escaped from the Tower. The account of his escape is among the Japanese letters at Louvain (p.290). [9] Our Pr…

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14th October 1618 - JOHN HONAN, O.S.F. 1:05

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HE was a native of Connaught, a priest, and a member of the Franciscan Order. After he had spent many years in religion a model to all of every virtue, and had discharged the office of pastor very zealously among the persecuted Catholics of Leinster, he was seized by the English heretics in Dublin and cast into prison. After six weeks of imprisonme…

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1585. VENERABLE RICHARD CREAGH, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH AND PRIMATE.[1]2 - Early career & Capture 16:14

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From Rothe’s Analecta, p395 He was native of Limerick. In his youth he had charge of the sale of saffron and other aromatic herbs in a merchant’s shop. Once he perceived that bags of saffron were damp. His conscience fearing there might be wrong done to the buyers, he set out the plant to dry in the sun, lest his soul might suffer from the addition…

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1588. PETER MILLER 1:52

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(Ibid., p. 456) HE was a native of Wexford, and a Bachelor of Theology. Moved by charity towards the Catholics, he return to Ireland from Spain. Hardly had he landed at Wexford when he was taken and examined, and being found constant in the faith, by order of the judge he was, after various tortures, hanged and quartered, October 4th, 1588. See als…

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15th September 1584. THADDEUS CLANCY 3:21

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(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 497.) AMONG the many bold athletes who in the County of Limerick courageously sacrificed their property, and even shed their blood to uphold the ancient Catholic faith, we must mention this brave man. He was of noble descent, and lord of Ballyrobert.[1] When the teachers of heresy were raging throughout Ireland, he…

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13th September 4:40

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1599. JAMES DOWDALL (From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 467) (A few different dates are given in the narrative I wonder if three different martyrs killed in the same area have been given the name of the known martyr.) HE was a Drogheda merchant, & when returning from France to Ireland he was driven by contrary winds into a harbour in the south of Eng…