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3 unusual facts about Francis Lavalin Nugent


Francis Lavalin Nugent

Meanwhile, in 1618 the monastery of Charleville, in the Ardennes, became a training-school for friars intended for the Irish mission, and facilities for the same purpose were offered by the Flandro-Belgian Province.

He founded a convent at Paderborn in 1612, and two years later communities were settled at Essen, Münster, and Aachen.

He also established the Confraternity of the Passion at Cologne; amongst its first protectors were two friends, Mgr Antonio Albergatti, the nuncio at Cologne, and Frederick of Hohenzollern, the dean of the cathedral.


Constantine Ó Nialláin

This latter affliction made Francis Lavalin Nugent refuse, at considerable controversy, to send him as a missionary to Charleville {in northern France} in 1621, because his lack of teeth made his speech virtually unintelligible.


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