Edward Coffin (Exeter

Exeter

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, 1570 – 17 April 1626, Saint-Omer's College) was an English Jesuit.

Life

After studies at Reims

Reims

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 and Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt

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 he was ordained at the English College, Rome, and sent to England.

In 1598 he entered the Society of Jesus. On his way to the novitiate in Flanders

Flanders

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, travelling with Thomas Lister

Thomas Lister (Jesuit)

Thomas Lister was anEnglish Jesuit writer.-Life:He was the son of Christopher Lister, of Midhope, Yorkshire. He entered Douai College, in 1576. Having occasion to return to England, he was seized and imprisoned...

, he was seized by the Dutch, near Antwerp, and taken to England, where he was imprisoned for five years. Banished from England in 1603, he acted for twenty years as confessor at the English College, Rome. He volunteered for England again, but died on the journey.

Works

He wrote:

• the preface to Robert Persons's "Discussion of Mr. Barlowe's Answer" (Saint-Omer, 1612),
• Refutation of Hall, Dean of Worcester's "Discourse for the Marriage of Ecclesiastical Persons" (1619),
• "Art of Dying Well", from the Latin of Robert Bellarmine
  Robert Bellarmine
  Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation...
  
  (1621);
• "True Relation of Sickness and Death of Cardinal Bellarmine", by C.E. of the Society of Jesus (1622), tr. into Latin,
• "De Morte", etc. (Saint-Omer 1623 8vo.);
• "Marci Antonii de Dominis Palinodia" (Saint-Omer, 1623), tr. by Dr. Fletcher in 1827 as "My Motives for Renouncing the Protestant Religion";
• "De Martyrio PP. Roberts, Wilson et Napper" (Stonyhurst MSS., Anglia, III, n. 103).