James Archer (Jesuit)
James Archer (1550–1620) was an Irish member of the Society of Jesus and played a controversial role in the Nine Years War, during the Tudor conquest of his native country. In the final decade of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I he became a leading hate figure in English government propaganda, but his lasting achievement was in the establishment of Irish seminaries in continental Europe as part of the counter reformation.
Read more about James Archer (Jesuit): Early Life, Irish Mission, Jesuit, Low Countries, Salamanca, Plots and Allegations, Ireland, Spanish Intervention, Battle of Kinsale, The Irish College, Decline and Death, Legacy
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