the Annales Minorum in 8 folio volumes (1625–1654), re-edited in the 18th century and continued up to the year 1622; it is the classical work on Franciscan history. He published also a Bibliotheca of Franciscan writers, an edition of the works of Duns Scotus, and the first collection of the writings of St Francis of Assisi. Wadding published a total of 36 volumes – fourteen at Rome, twenty-one at Lyon, and one at Antwerp. Annales Minorum, in eight volumes (1625–54) Duns Scotus in twelve volumes (1639, fol.) πρεσβεία [Presbeia] published at Louvain (1624) a treatise on the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin. The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, the works of Duns Scotus, and the history of the Franciscan order were his favourite subjects of study. De Hebraicæ origine, præstantia, et utilitate his essay is prefixed to the concordance of the Hebrew scriptures of Mario di Calasio, which Wadding prepared for the press in 1621. See also Michael Wadding (priest) List of people on stamps of Ireland References Sources Attribution: Referred works Harold, Francis, Vita Fratris Lucae Waddingi (1731) Ware, James, The Whole Works of Sir James Ware Concerning Ireland (1764) Webb, Alfred, A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen (1878) Meehan, Charles Patrick, The rise and fall of the Irish Franciscan monasteries, and memoirs of the Irish hierarchy in the seventeenth century (1877) O'Shea, Joseph A, 'The Life of Father Luke Wadding, Founder of St. Isidore's College, Rome' (1885) Fidanza, Giovan Battista, Luke Wadding's art: Irish Franciscan Patronage in Seventeenth Century Rome, Franciscan Institutes Publications, St. Bonaventure, NY (2016) External links Luke Wadding Papers: correspondence relating to Fr Luke Wadding OFM and the Irish Friars Minor at St. Isidore's College, Rome &c. — a UCD Digital Library Collection. 1588 births 1657 deaths People from Waterford (city) People educated at Kilkenny College Roman Catholic writers 17th-century Irish historians Irish Friars Minor 17th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Franciscan scholars University of Coimbra alumni Irish expatriates in Italy Irish expatriates in Spain Scotism Academic staff of the University of Salamanca Irish Franciscans 17th-century Latin-language writers