Background
He was born in Galway during the occupation of the town by the Cromwellian army, his family been one of the Tribes of Galway.
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Francis Martin
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He was educated in one of the secret schools in the city.
Career
In 1673 he began his studies for the priesthood in Louvain with the Augustinian order. Ordained there in 1680, he was the following year appointed Professor of Greek at the college. He took his Doctor of Divinity in 1688.
In 1691 he became Professor of Divinity at Mechelen, where he published two theses which led to his dismissal.
However, he was re-appointed to his old post in Louvain, and in 1694 became its professor of Scripture. Subsequently he was appointed Vice-President of the college, and in the same year he was made a Canon of Saint Peter"son
Archbishop Synge refused, but said of Francis Martin that he was a man who preserved something of freedom in his judgement meant well at bottom. Francis Martin died at Bruges on 4 October 1722, where he is buried in the grounds of Saint John"s Hospital.
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In the 1680s he was deeply involved in defending Papal Pronouncement against the Jansenists.
