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Hugh Paulin Cressy

English author and editor
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Also known as: Serenus Cressy
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Category: History & Society
Also called:
Serenus Cressy
Born:
c. 1605,, Thorpe-Salvin, Yorkshire [now South Yorkshire], Eng.
Died:
Aug. 10, 1674, East Grinstead, Sussex [now West Sussex]
Role In:
Counter-Reformation
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Hugh Paulin Cressy (born c. 1605, Thorpe-Salvin, Yorkshire [now South Yorkshire], Eng.—died Aug. 10, 1674, East Grinstead, Sussex [now West Sussex]) was an English Benedictine monk, historian, apologist, and spiritual writer noted for his editorship of writings by Counter-Reformation mystics. Educated at Merton College, Oxford, Cressy became chaplain to Sir Thomas Wentworth (later earl of Strafford) and subsequently to Lucius Cary (later Lord Falkland); he was also dean of Leighlin, County Carlow, and canon of Windsor, Berkshire. While in Rome (1646), he converted to Roman Catholicism—owing to the writings of Father Augustine Baker and to Cary’s death in the English ...(100 of 170 words)

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