Kelly, John Thomas, 1906-1977, former Jesuit priest
- IE IJA ADMN/7/112
- Person
- 15 April 1906-30 August 1977
Born: 15 April 1906, Charlotte Street, Newbridge, County Kildare
Entered: 31 August 1923, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 24 June 1937, Milltown Park, Dublin
Final Vows: 02 February 1940, Mungret College SJ, Limerick
Died: 30 August 1977, Our Lady of Fatima, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada
Left Society of Jesus: 25 September 1956 (Incardinated into Sault St Marie Diocese, Canada 1956)
Father (a Protestant) is a clerk of The Laird Line Shipping Company. Family lived at Emerald Street, Seville Place, Dublin City, County Dublin.
Youngest of three boys.
Early education at St Laurence O'Toole’s Christian Brother school, and then at O’Connell Schools.
by 1929 at Berchmanskolleg, Pullach, Germany (GER S) studying
1931 Regency at Belvedere
by 1939 at St Beuno’s Wales (ANG) making Tertianship
Baptised at Newbridge parish, 22 May 1906