Thomas Lister (Jesuit)
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Thomas Lister (alias Thomas Butler) (born c.1559, died probably before 1628) was an English
Life
Lister was born in
He graduated in Divinity at Pont-à-Mousson in 1592. In 1596 he went on to the English mission, but was arrested in 1598 and endured a long incarceration.
Lister seems to have resided continuously in England. His death probably occurred shortly before 1628.
Works
Difficulties had broken out among the English Catholic clergy, the so-called
Your request is that we should call in the treatise against your schism; and this is unreasonable, because the medicine ought not to be removed until the sore be thoroughly cured. If it grieve you, I am not grieved thereat.
His conduct in regard to Lister's tract formed the first of the six grounds on which was based the "Appeal of thirty-three clergymen", against his administration. The appellants obtained a favourable hearing at Rome. Lister's tract was suppressed by papal Brief (May 1601), and Blackwell rebuked for his unreasonable conduct.
The treatise Adversus factiosos was incorporated into Christopher Bagshaw's Relatio compendium turbarum; a portion of it was reprinted in Thomas Graves Law, Historical Sketch of Conflicts between Jesuits and Seculars in the Reign of Elizabeth (London, 1889), appendix D.
References
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Lister". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry also cites:
- Charles Dodd, ed. Tierney, Church History of England, III (London, 1840); cxxxiii, sqq.;
- Joseph Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., s. v.;
- John Morris, The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, related by themselves, I (London, 1872).