Born in Carlow, Ireland, 29 September 1841
Took the habit in Sicklinghall on 23 June 1859
Oblation in Sicklinghall on 21 April 1861 (No. 542)
Priestly ordination in Autun, on 10 June 1865
Left the Congregation around 1868.
Michael John Gorman was born in Carlow, Ireland, 29 September 1841, his parents being Michael Gorman and Mary Kennedy. He arrived in Sicklinghall as a junior on 19 March 1859 and began his novitiate on 23 June 1859 in Sicklinghall where he made his oblation on 21 April 1861. He seems to have begun his scholasticate studies in Sicklinghall and continued them in Autun from 1862 until his ordination on 10 June 1865. In the formator’s notes his name comes up only once in 1862, with a comment practically identical to that of Fr. Boisramé dated 1 April 1862: “Gorman: laughs a lot, scrupulous; his good points exceed by far his bad ones; violent temperament; attached to his family; of shallow judgement; good memory; oral examination very satisfactory.”
His arrival in Sicklinghall as ‘professor of the Juniors’ on 3 November 1865 is noted in the Codex. According to letters in his file, he was in Sicklinghall in 1866, where he acted as sub-deacon at the solemn requiem of Mr. Peter Middleton on 8 June 1866, and in Inchicore in 1868. On 2 June 1868 he writes Father Fabre to say he regrets asking Rome for a dispensation from vows. He affirms he is attached to the congregation, but he does not get on with his superiors. He asks for Father General’s advice and decision. After that, his name does not appear any longer in Oblate sources as that of an active member.
Yvon Beaudoin
and Michael Hughes, o.m.i.
