Fleming, Patrick

Fleming, Patrick an Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastic and writer, was born at Louth, 4pril 17, 1599. He was appointed lecturer of divinity at Prague, where he remained until the city was besieged by the elector of Saxony in 1631, when he was murdered. He published Collectanea Sacra, or Lives of Irish and Scotch Saints (1667). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.