Anderson, Patrick
Anderson, Patrick
(1575-1624) Missionary and writer, born Elgin, Scotland; died London . He entered the Society of Jesus, 1597, and in 1609 was appointed to the Scottish mission, where his labors were successful and his escapes marvelous. In 1615 he became rector of Scots College. On his return to Scotland, he was betrayed and imprisoned, and later liberated, probably through the offices of the French ambassador. He wrote, among other things, “Memoirs of the Scottish Saints.”
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Anderson, Patrick
A Scottish Jesuit, b. at Elgin in Morayshire in 1575; died in London, 24 September, 1624. he was the nephew of Dr. John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, a faithful adherent of Mary Queen of Scots, and her ambassador at the French Court. After completing his education at the university of Edinburgh, he entered the Society of Jesus at Rome, in 1597, and in due time acquired a reputation as a linguist, mathematician, philosopher, and divine. In 1609, he was appointed to the Scotch mission, where his labours were highly successful and his hairbreadth escapes from the pursuivants truly marvelous. He left Scotland for Paris to meet his superior, Father James Gordon, late in 1611. father Anderson undertook to supply the great dearth of missionaries in his native country by collecting nearly one hundred youths in Scotland, all of them most eager to serve God and the Church. In 1615 he became the first Jesuit Rector of the Scots College in Rome, founded fifteen years before by Pope Clement VIII. Returning to Scotland, he was soon after betrayed by a pretended Catholic, and committed to the Tolbooth jail, Edinburgh, where, in the daily expectation of torture and death, he displayed the heroic intrepidity of a true martyr. He was finally set at liberty on the petition, it is supposed, of the French Ambassador who requested to have him for his confessor.
Father Anderson has left us some valuable and interesting letters relating to his missionary labours in Scotland; these letters may be found in the London “Month” for December, 1876. No one was better qualified to bear witness to the state of the Church in Scotland during the reign of James the First. In 1623 he published “The Ground of the Catholicke and Roman Religion in the Word of God” a work which shows he had carefully studied the scriptural argument for the Catholic Faith. While imprisoned in Edinburgh, he also compiled the “Memoirs of the Scotch Saints”, formerly in manuscript at the Scots College in Paris.
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Letters of Father Patrick Anderson, 1611-20, in Letters and Notices (Rochampton, Nov., 1867). 98-149; Oliver, Collections toward illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English, and Irish members of the Society of Jesus (London, 1845); Forbes-Leith, Narratives of Scottish Catholics under Mary Stuart and James VI (new ed., London, 1889), pp. 317-346′ J.F.S. Gordon, The Catholic Church in Scotland (1874), 516, 517; Dictionary of National Biography, V; Catholic directory (1855).
EDWARD P. SPILLANE
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume ICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Anderson, Patrick
an English Congregational minister, was born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in April, 1806. He was blessed with a loving, cheerful, and pious home. He received the elements of a good education in his native town, and in 1820 removed to Aberdeen, and received an academical training at Marischal College. On leaving in 1824, having taken his degree of A.M., he resolved to devote himself to the ministry, and proceeded, after spending a session at the University of Edinburgh, to London, where in 1825 he became a student at Homerton College. After completing his curriculum, he spent a few years at Rudgeley, Staffordshire, supplying the vacant pulpit of the Congregational Church. Mr. Anderson was ordained in April, 1838, to the pastorate of the Congregational Church of New Lanark, on the banks of the Clyde. Here he lived and labored till his death, July 11, 1868. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1869, p. 237.