Editing Luke Wadding (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:French Church, Waterford 3.jpg|thumb|The entrance to the [[French Church, Waterford]] with the statue of Fr. Luke Wadding]]
Wadding founded the [[Pontifical Irish College]] for Irish [[secular clergy]]. In 1900, Wadding's portrait and part of his library were in the Franciscan friary on Merchant's Quay, Dublin. Through Wadding's efforts, [[St Patrick's Day]] became a [[feast day]].{{sfn|Herbermann|1913}}  But it would take years for it to develop, taking until the 20th century for St. Patrick's Day parades to occur in his native Ireland, while the first organized celebration in America took place in the 18th century in cities like Boston and New York, and today occurs in faraway places like Russia and Japan.<ref name="Cavanaugh2016" /> Amid all the celebrations, most Irish today do not know about the "Waterford man who created St. Patrick's Day."<ref name="Cavanaugh2016" />

Prior to the 1950s, when work began on a new critical edition, the ''Wadding Edition'' of the works of [[Duns Scotus]] was the most complete version of the thought of the Subtle Doctor available to scholars.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wadding |first1=Luke |title=The Wadding Edition |url=http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/Wadding_1639 |website=The Logic Museum |access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref> The work was compiled in 1639, when Wadding was in Rome, and updated in the 1890s.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Wadding-Vivès Edition |url=http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/Wadding-Viv%C3%A8s |website=The Logic Museum |access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref> Whilst containing a number of spurious works, as of 2021, with the new Vatican Edition of Scotus yet to be completed, the Wadding Edition remains an important and influential collection.

In the 1950s, a statue of Wadding by [[Gabriel Hayes]] was erected on the Mall in Waterford, adjacent to [[Reginald's Tower]] and one of the city's most prominent locations. The Waterford-born Franciscan's literary, academic and theological attributes were denoted by a quill pen held poised in the statue's right hand. More recently this statue was replaced by one of [[Thomas Francis Meagher]]. The figure of Luke Wadding was moved to a position at the entrance to the [[French Church, Waterford]] on Greyfriars.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artist Biography:Gabriel Hayes |url=https://www.sculpturedublin.ie/artist-biography-gabriel-hayes/ |website=sculpturedubllin.ie}}</ref>

In 2000, the [[Waterford Institute of Technology]] dedicated a new library building to his name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.wit.ie/files/guides/Newsletter1.pdf |title=Newsletter |publisher=library.wit.ie |accessdate=2021-06-07}}</ref>