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John Skerrett (Augustinian), Irish preacher and missionary, c.1620–c.1688. John Skerrett was a member of one of the Tribes of Galway. He studied for the clergy in Andalusia, and afterwards he was ordained as a member of the Augustinian order. He gained an excellent reputation as a preacher at Cadiz, where he also taught moral theology. After about twenty years in Spain he was stationed at Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife for four years, following which he returned to Galway, sometime in the 1660s. While there he taught Latin and was prior of the order's town convent. Skerrett is notable for been the first Augustinian missionary in the Americas, working mainly in Virginia and the West Indies during the 1670s, as well as Cuba and Puerto Rico in the 1680s. The last documented reference to him is as the Commissary-General of the Augustinians in England in 1688. He was a probable descendant of Richard Huskard, and possibly John Skerrett (Mayor). ==References== * Obstinate' Skerrett, Missionary in Virginia, the West Indies and England, (c.1674–c.1688)" F.X. Martin, ''Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'', Volume 35, 1975 * ''The Tribes of Galway'', Adrian James Martyn, Galway, 2001 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Skerrett (Augustinian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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