Peter Wadding

Peter Wadding ( – 13 September 1644) was an Irish Jesuit theologian.

Life Born at Waterford in 1581 or 1583, he was son of Thomas Wadding and his wife, Mary Walsh. Both father and mother are said to have been of good family. According to Leger's Life of Archbishop Walsh, Peter had five brothers who also became Jesuits: Luke, Thomas, Michael, Daniel, and Walter. The Franciscan Luke Wadding, and the Jesuit Ambrose Wadding, were his cousins.

Wadding studied humanities for seven years in Ireland, and then proceeded to Douai, where he graduates M.A., and subsequently doctor of both laws as well as of divinity. He was admitted to the Company of Jesus on 24 October 1601 by Father Oliveræus, the provincial of Flanders, and commenced his novitiate at Tournai on 23 November 1601. When he joined the novitiate at Tournai, he gave his birth year as 1583. A manuscript volume in the Bodleian Library contains various other treatises by him (Tanner, p.744).

According to Edmund Hogan, SJ, Peter Wadding's writings are as follows: Carmina varia et alia spectantia ad Disciplinas Humaniores Tractatus aliquot contra Haereticos Brevis Refutatio Calumniarum quas Collegio Societatis Jesu Pragensi impegit Scriptor famosi libelli cui titulus "Flagellum Jesuiticum," praesertim in negotio Academiae Pragensis, 1634, 4to De Incarnatione, 4to, 1634 Oratio Pragae dicta in Ferdinandi III. Ratisbonensibus Comitiis in Caesarem electi Inauguratione De Contractibus, 4to, 1644 Epistola de Regula Fidei (published in Latin and translated into Dutch) Epistola de Cultu Imaginum (published in Latin and translated into Dutch)

as well as these manuscripts: Thirty-six various treatises by him in the Bodleian Library Hyperoo Bodl., number 16 Examen et Purgatio Petri Wadingi, in Imperial Libr. at Vienna