Sir Patrick Lawless – the Irish Jacobite Lord Commander of Mallorca

Sir Patrick Lawless – the Irish Jacobite Lord Commander of Mallorca Cathedral de Mallorca. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Sergiy Galyonkin.

By Richard Maher and Mario Luis López Durán At 5 o’clock in the evening on March 19, 1739, one of the great bells of Palma de Mallorca’s La Seu Cathedral, known as N’Antònia, knelled the toll of Extreme Unction. Don Patricio Laules, or Sir Patrick Lawless as he was known by his Irish contemporaries, was…

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