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Lionel Albert Anderson

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An English Dominican, b. about 1620; d. 21 October, 1710. The son of a Lincolnshire gentleman, he suffered much for his faith. He became a convert, entered the order of St. Dominic at Paris in 1638, was ordained priest in 1665, and returned to London, where he was known under the assumed name of Munson. He was later accused by Titus Oates of being a conspirator against the King and Parliament, was indicted for being a priest contrary to the law of England, was tried and condemned to death at the Old Bailey, in 1679 or 1680, by the notorious Scroggs. He was pardoned by Charles II, after undergoing a year's imprisonment in Newgate, and was exiled for life. In 1686, after a visit to the Holy Land, he returned to England with a free pardon from James II, fled with that King to the Continent in 1688, returned again to England in 1898, and died at the patriarchal age of 91.

Sources

GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. of Engl. Catholics, I, 29; PALMER, Obituary Notices of Dominicans.

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APA citation. Shahan, T. (1907). Lionel Albert Anderson. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01466c.htm

MLA citation. Shahan, Thomas. "Lionel Albert Anderson." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01466c.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by John Fobian. In memory of Sandra Fielding.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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