Hugh Paulin Cressy

Hugh Paulin Cressy (born c. 1605, Thorpe-Salvin, Yorkshire [now South Yorkshire], Eng.—died Aug. 10, 1674, East Grinstead, Sussex [now West Sussex]) was an English Benedictine monk, historian, apologist, and spiritual writer noted for his editorship of writings by Counter-Reformation mystics. Educated at Merton College, Oxford, Cressy became chaplain to Sir Thomas Wentworth (later earl of Strafford) and subsequently to Lucius Cary (later Lord Falkland); he was also dean of Leighlin, County Carlow, and canon of...