JOHN

See also:

• JOHN MACHALE (1791–1881)

MACHALE (1791–1881)  , Irish divine, was born on the 15th of March 1791 at Tuber-na-Fian, Mayo, and was educated at Maynooth, where after graduating in 1814 he was ordained priest and appointed lecturer in theology, succeeding to the professoriate in 182o . In 1825 he became coadjutor bishop of Killala, and in July 1834 archbishop of Tuam and metropolitan . He visited Rome in 1831, and was there again at the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin (Dec . 1854) and in 1869–187o at the Vatican council . Though he did not favour the dogma of Papal Infallibility he submitted as soon as it was defined . Machale was an intensely patriotic Irishman, who fought hard for Catholic Emancipation, for separate Roman Catholic schools, and against the Queen's Colleges.- He translated part of the Iliad (Dublin, 1861), and made an Irish version of some of Moore's melodies and of the Pentateuch . He died at Tuam on the 7th of November 1881 .