Born: 25 March 1721, County Waterford
Entered: 14 August 1763 - Tepotzotlán, Mexico (MEX)
Died: 08 October 1767, Vera Cruz, Mexico - Mexicanae Province (MEX)

Companion of the Director of Spiritual Exercises at St Andrea, Mexico before expulsion
Arrested 25/06/1767
35 Jesuits died at Vera Cruz, Mexico between 01/08/1767 and 12/12/1767

◆ Fr John MacErlean SJ :
1767 At St Andrew’s College Mexico at the time of arrest of all Jesuits. While awaiting deportation at Vera Cruz he died.

◆ James B Stephenson SJ Menologies 1973

Brother Thomas Arsdekin 1721-1767
Br Thomas Arsdekin, or Archdekin, was born in Waterford in 1721.

When 42 years of age, he joined the Society in Mexico, and was stationed at the College of St Andrew at the time of the arrest of the Jesuits in Mexico. While awaiting embarkation at the port of Vera Cruz, he died on October 8th, 1767.

Born: 1739
Entered: 1747, Mexico - Mexicanae Province (MEX)
Died: 16 January 1751, Tepotzotlán, Mexico - Mexicanae Province (MEX)

◆ Fr Edmund Hogan SJ “Catalogica Chronologica” :
DOB 03 June 1739; Ent 23 November 1747;
1750 In Mexico

◆ CATSJ A-H has 1750 MEX CAT Scholastic teaching Grammar at Havana College

◆ In Old/15 (1) and Old/16

Born: August 1648, Drogheda, County Louth
Entered: 16 August 1672 - Nuevo Reino Mission : COL, ECU, VEN (NEU REI)
Final Vows: 02 February 1697
Died: 19 May 1672, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia - Nuevo Reino Mission : COL, ECU, VEN (NEU REI)

◆ Fr John MacErlean SJ :
1672-1721 Did the work of a Brother at the Colleges of Santa Fé de Bogotá and Pamplona, Colombia

◆ James B Stephenson SJ Menologies 1973
Brother Thomas Lewis 1648-1721
Br Thomas Lewis was born in Drogheda in 1648 and entered the Society in Nuevo Reina in 1672. Nuevo Reina was a Province embracing the modern South American States of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
He carried out his duties in the Colleges of Santa Fe and Pamplona. He died at Santa Fe in 1721.

Born: 1630 Limerick City, County Limerick
Entered: Mexicanae Province (MEX)
Died: 10 December 1670, Santa Fe, Mexico - Mexicanae Province (MEX).

Alias Richard Walsh