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