Petrus Johannes Meindaerts
1684–1767Petrus Johannes Meindaerts was ordained by Bishop Luke Fagan and later avoided imprisonment after being arrested as a suspected Jacobite spy.
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Petrus Johannes Meindaerts was ordained to the priesthood in Ireland by Roman Catholic Bishop Luke Fagan of Meath.
He arrived in Ireland in the late summer of 1716, was arrested on suspicion of being a Jacobite spy, and avoided imprisonment by convincing an officer familiar with Louvain that he was a student at that university.
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