Early Years and Life As A Skilled Debater
John Almond passed his childhood at circa 1577, and at Much Woolton, Lancashire. His childhood and early manhood were spent in Ireland, until he went to the English College in Rome, at the age of twenty, where he was ordained as a priest, returning to England as a missionary in 1602. He concluded his term there by giving the 'Grand Act' -- a public defence of theses which cover the whole course of philosophy and theology—and was warmly congratulated by Cardinals Caesar Baronius and Francesco Maria Tarugi, who presided.
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