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8 generally considered more conversant in the writings of that Father, than any of his contemporaries. His reputa tion became at length so fully established, that the Court of Rome thought f i t t o appoint him t o the titular Archbish opric o f Tuam, and h e was also for some time provincial o f his order i n Ireland. Philip I I . o f Spain had about the same time dispatched a n army into Ireland, i n aid o f the Catholics, who were engaged i n one o f those arduous struggles for religious liberty which have s o frequently divided that country; and Conry, a t the command o f Pope Clement VIII. returned t o his native land t o assist them with his counsel. Their invasion, however, was defeated; and his strenuous exertions being but too well known t o the English government, Conry was proscribed; i n con sequence o f which h e retired into Flanders, where h e continued for some time, and afterwards into Spain. He was now supported entirely b y the King o f Spain, and i t was a t his request, that Philip III. founded a t Louvain the Irish college, dedicated t o St. Anthony o f Padua. The first stone o f the building was laid i n 1616, b y the Princes Albert and Isabell, and i t has since been o f infinite utility t o Ireland, b y affording a n asylum for the education o f many children, whose genius and abilities would without such cultivation have reflected no lustre on the soil which gave them birth. During his long banishment h e devoted himself entirely t o the works o f St. Augustine, which h e studied with s o great application a s t o make himself completely master o f the sentiments o f that Father, concerning the necessity and efficacy o f grace, and the controversies about i t with Pitagius and other heretics, and o n this subject h e wrote several treatises. He died i n a convent of his order a t Madrid, o n the 18th o f November, 1629, i n the sixty ninth year o f his age, greatly respected and lamented b y the Spaniards, among whom h e had resided f o r s o many years. I n gratitude for his exertions, the friars o f the Irish college a t Louvain, erected a monument t o his memory