An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland: From the First Introduction of Christianity Among the Irish to the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century, Volume 2Graisberry, 1822 - Ireland |
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Page 124 - Brittaniam ueniret, monasterium nobile in Hibernia, quod a copia roborum Dearmach lingua Scottorum, hoc est campus roborum, cognominatur.
Page 396 - Can any thing more pernicious be conceived as to the mother church than to say ; Rome errs, Jerusalem errs, Alexandria errs, Antioch errs, the whole world errs ; the- Scots and Britons alone are right.
Page 154 - Having erected a monastery and a church, and arranged such matters as were connected with his establishment, in which occupation, besides his visiting the territories of his relatives in the mainland of Britain, he may have passed about two years ; (150) Columba, taking with him some assistants, undertook his wished for task of converting the Northern Picts, who inhabited the whole of modern Scotland to the North of the great range of the Grampian mountains.
Page 391 - Usher, (Dkcourse on the religion, fyc.chap.8.) the substance of which is as follows ; " If a difficult cause may occur, which cannot be easily decided by the Irish prelates and the see of Armagh, it shall be sent to the Apostolic see, that is, to the chair of the apostle St. Peter, which hath the authority of the city of Rome.
Page 47 - SS. p. 584-586. Harris, Writers at St. Coemgen. Ledwich takes fire (p. 35) at the account given by our genealogists of the family, whence this saint was sprung. He says that " to believe that a barbarous people, naked and ignorant as American Indians, should have preserved the pedigree of St. Kevin, is too much for the most stupid credulity.
Page 83 - Cluain-Credhuil, where she was soon visited by a number of pious maidens, who flocked from all parts of the territory to place themselves under her direction. Thus her nunnery was established in a short time, and it was most probably the first in that part of Ireland. (7) (1...
Page 458 - Angles he was honourably received by the pious king Sigberet, and employed himself, as usual, in preaching the Gospel. His exertions and example were attended with the conversion of many infidels, and with great benefit to others who were already Christians. (82) His arrival in that countryis usually assigned to about 6SJ. (83) While engaged in this manner, he was taken ill and had another vision, in which he was encouraged to persevere in his labours and religious practices.
Page 115 - Qui videlicet Columba nunc a nonnullis, composite a cella et Columba nomine, Colum-celli vocatur." Notkerus Balbulus, speaking of him, in his Martyrology, says ; " cognomento apad suos Columbkilli ; eo quod multarum cellarum, id est, monasteriorum vel ecclesiarum institutor, fundator, et rector extiterit.
Page 293 - ... however, he did not receive, the bearer having lost them at Jerusalem. Here we have a proof that those letters were not sent from Ireland ; for surely no one, proceeding thence to Rome, would have previously gone to the Holy land. (58) Columbanus writes ; " A rege cogos, ut singillatim suggeram tuis piis auribus sui negotium doloris. Dolor namque suus est schisma populi pro regina, pro filio, forte et pro se ipso.
Page 213 - Mitine, (Ii5) whence it may be justly inferred that he was a native of the country called Muscrighe Mitine, now Muskerry in the county of Cork. (1 16) The time of his birth cannot be ascertained ; but it was probably about the year 522. His early years seem to have been dedicated to the study of poetry, and we are told that he became domestic poet to the prince Aodh Caomh, who was raised, about the middle of the sixth century, to the throne of Cashel, and that he was present, together with Jirendan...