Wadding

Wadding, LUKE, historian of the Franciscan order, was born at Waterford, 16th October 1588, studied at Lisbon, became a Franciscan and professor at Salamanca. In 1618 he settled in Rome, where he founded a college of Irish Franciscans, and wrote the Annales Ordinis Minorum (8 vols. 1626-40; new ed. 1731-47) and the Scriptores Ordinis Minorum, besides editing Duns Scotus. He died 18th November 1657.