Malachi Brendan Martin , occasionally writing under the pseudonym Michael Serafian, was an Irish Catholic priest and writer on the Catholic Church. Originally ordained as a Jesuit priest, he became Professor of Palaeography at the Vaticans Pontifical Biblical Institute. From 1958 he served as secretary to Cardinal Bea during preparations for the Second Vatican Council.
Martin was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland to a middleclass family in which the children were raised speaking Irish at the dinner table. Catholic belief and practice were central his three brothers, including Francis Xavier Martin, also became priests, two of them academics.
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