Decline and Death
Archer began to suffer ill health in 1608, and little is known of him until 1613, when he stayed two months at Bordeaux on seminary business. He appears to have commanded respect for his devoted religious observance.
In 1615 Archer again sought to return to Ireland, but his request was denied by the new general, Mutius Vitelleschi. He spent the last years of his life at Santiago de Compostella as spiritual father to the seminarians. On the 15th of February 1620 he died at the Irish college there.
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