A Compendium of Irish Biography/Arthur, James

by Alfred Webb

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Arthur, James, Rev., born in Limerick, a Dominican friar in the abbey of St. Stephen at Salamanca, Professor of Divinity, the author of a Commentary on Aquinas, and other works. He was deprived of his chair in 1642 for refusing to subscribe to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, and withdrew to the convent of St. Dominick in Lisbon, where he died about 1670. ^[1]

Authorities

1. Ware, Sir James, Works: Walter Harris. 2 vols. Dublin, 1764.