HICKEY (Higuaeus), ANTONY. - Irish theologian, b. in County Clare at Thomond in 1586, d. at Rome on 26 June 1641. A Franciscan (1607) at the Irish College of St Anthony in Louvain, he taught theology and philosophy, later moving to Cologne to the College of St Francis. In 1619 he was sent to Rome as a WADDING, LUKAS (v.).
He wrote: Nitela franciscanae religionis et absterio sordium quibus eam conspurcare frustra tentavit Abrahamus Bravinus (Lyons 1627), published under the pseudonym Dermitius Thadeus; the incomplete Commentarii in II. IV Sententiarum (ibid. 1639), a learned defence of Scotist doctrine. He also wrote on the Immaculate Conception, on the stigmata of St Catherine of Siena, and an unpublished ascetical work. Death prevented him from undertaking that extensive general critical history of Ireland, the plan of which he had drawn up with the assistance of several Irish scholars.
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