No More Learning

apostolical labours, and sanctity, may be found in that work, of St. Eric,'^3 or
Keiric, of Auxerre, and which relates poetically the Life and Miracles of St.
German LIS, Bishop of Tours. ''^* Born about the year 834, Eric finished this
work, after the middle of that century, and he died about the year 881. ^^^s St.
Rabanus Maurus,^^^ St. Ado,^^? and Usuard,^^^^ who flourished in the ninth
century,^^9 in their respective Martyrologies, as also Notker or Notger,*9o the monk of St. Gall, in the ninth and tenth centuries, record St. Patrick. In
the learned Chroniclers' of St. Marianus Scottus,^^^ Avho lived in the eleventh century, an account of St. Patrick is to be found, at a. d. 372, 388, 394, 402,
431, and 491. ^23 Again, Ricemarc, who flourished in the eleventh century,r94 mentions our Apostle. Sigibert was born about the year 1030, and he be- came a monk at Gemblours, in Flanders. He was esteemed the best poet, and the most universal scholar, of the eleventh century. He makes honour- able mention of our saint, in his Chronicle. This work is held in high
estimation, for its accuracy. Sigibert died at Gembloux, on the 5th of
paper, folio. , xvi. cent.
Nennii, Historia. A. D. 687. Britonuni.
^s3 It must be observed, however, that the editor deems these notices to be insertions, by some writer unknown ; and, as such,
Towards the end of the eleventh century, William of He wrote the Lives of St. Patrick''97 and of St.
October, a. d. i 112. ^95 Malmsbury was born. '9^
toria Britonuni. MS. Hunter, Glasgow, 149. A Paris, 1759, fol.
xvii. cent. Gildiis Eulo- """* He on the 8th of A. D. (Nennii) died, January,
Marked E, in Petrie's list. Nennii Ilistoria de Britonibus, a vetustissimo ejusdem Historioe exeniplari, in publica Academia; Cantabrigiensis Biblio- theca reposito, descripla. MS. Harl. , 624.
'^^^
His festival occurs, at the 4th of Feb-
ruary, on which day he died, about A. D.
856.
^^7 He died in the year 875. See an
account of him, in Moreri's " Grand Dic- f. 35. , paper, folio, xvii. cent. Nennii His- tionnaire Historique," tome i. , pp. 148,
paper,
giiun Britannice descriptum, e variis MSS.
ab ipso Usserio. MS. Trin. Coll. , Dublin,
32$ (469), 4to. Nennii, Britonuni Histo- siaruni Antiquitates, cap. xvii. , p. 427.
riographi, Eulogiuni Britannia;, sub. Gildre Sapientis larva diu exceptum. MS. Trin.
Coll. , Dublin, 460 (600). Gesta Britonuni,
codex a Gilda conipositus. MS. olim More
Ep. Norwic. 91 (9277). , veil, folio. Liber
S. Gildas Abbatis de Gestis Anglorum. MS.
olim More. Ep. Norwic. 289 (9475). veil.
Gildas Sapiens, qualiter Angli inhabitant,
sive de Gestis Britonuni. MS. olim More.
Ep. Norwic. (p. 390 a. ) among the
^^ He was born, about the year 830, and he died on the i6th of April, a. d. 912. See M. le Dr. Hoefer's " Nouvelle Biographie Generale, depuis les Temps les plus recules jusqu'a nos Jours," tome xxxviii. , col. 300.
^9' See the valuable edition of G. Waitz,
in Georgius Heinricus Pertz's " Momimenta
Germanise Historica," tomus v. , pp. 481 to
564-
^9- His festival is kept, on the 30th of Ja-
"
omissa. " Gildre Sapientis, aut potius nuary.
MS. Trin. Coll. , Dublin, 284 (424). f. 524.
Gildas de primis Habitatoribus Britannice,
MS. Bibl. Publ. , Bale. Nennii Historia they are placed, within brackets, in his Britonuni, ex Libio de Ballimote. MS. edition.
xix. cent.
See"
relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland," vol. i. , part i. , pp. 318 to 337.
'^3 His festival is assigned, to the 24th of June, when the Bollandists have an account of him.
^*-* He became Bishop of St. David's, A. D.
10S8. He "VitaS. some wrote, Davidis,"
MS. copies of which are extant. See Bishop
Phillipps, 10272, paper, 410,
Descriptive Catalogue
of
Materials,
=^®-* This is
Germanus was born, about the year 380,
and, after rendering great services to Reli-
gion, he died, on the 31st of July, a. d. 448.
See Rev. Alban Butler's " Lives of the "English Writers," vol. i. , book i. , chap, Fathers, Martyrs, and other principal xiv. , pp. 491 to 495.
in Six Books. St.
Saints," vol. vii. , xxvi. July.
-^5 See an admirable account of his Life
and works, in the " Histoire Literaire de la France," tome v. , sect, i. , ii. , pp. 535 to 543.
recules
nos
tome
comprised,
plus
cols. 969, 970.
Jours,"
Ixiii. ,
876 or 877.
^^9 See Ussher's " Britannicanuii Eccle- "
Tanner's
"
Bibliotheca Britannico-Hiber-
iiica," pp. 623, 624.
*95 See M. le Dr. Hoefer's " Nouvelle
Biographie Generale, depuis les Temps les
jusqu'a
^*° See an account of him, and of his literary productions, in Henry Morley's
^'' 1 here is no known Manuscript of this Life, nor of the miracles of St. Benignus, by ^Yillianl of Malmsbury. However, there are extracts from his Life of St. Patrick, in
Leland's "Collectanea,"
March 17. LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 427
Dunstan,'9^ the Martyrdom of St. Indract/93 and the Miracles of St. Benig- nus. Besides the foregoing, he compiled many valuable historical works, and he died, about a. d. 1142. Again, Giraldus Cambrensis,3°o who lived in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries,3°' alludes to St. Patrick. Also, a Life of St. Patrick, in verse, was written by Rol)crt of Gloucester, 3°^ an English
Patric com thorn "
They
allusion has been made to the great Patron of Ireland. We do not pretend, to make a perfect enumeration of such authors here ; but, it may be desirable to notice some of those, wlio have treated on his history.
Among the special writers of St. Patrick's Acts, in various languages, may
be mentioned. Jacobus Ue Voragine, wiio lived in the thirteenth century, and who died towards its close. He left a Life of St. Patrick, 3°? in the Legenda
Aurea. 3°8 John of Teignmouth,--°9 or Tinmouth, a Benedictine monk, left a
->* 111 the Uodleiau Manusciipl, R. iwlin- 3"'' See, De Sancto Patricio et de Purga- son. 263. torio Suo, where a rude woodcut illustrates
-*3 This was al)ridged, from the Anglo- the text, at p. 114. Milan, a. d. 1519. In
and historian. 3°3
Godes to grace
It
in Irlonde. "
with these words Of him, Fuller
Seyn
says very quaintly,
poet
begins
:
preci
speaketrulv,whotermhimaRliiiiicr; whilstsuchspeakecourteously,who call him a Pod. Indeed, such his language, that he is dumb in eftect to the Readers of our age, without an Interjireler, and such a one will hardly be ])rocured. " He lived under King Henry II,, and he may be presumed to have continued until 1200. 3°+ In addition to the foregoing, Math^us Flori- legus, who is also known, as ^Matthew of Westminster, was a Benedictine monk, and he flourished in the fourteenth century.
3°5 In his Chronicle, we find an interesting account of St. Patrick, where his death is recorded, at a. d. 491. 3°° Many other mediaeval writers might be quoted, in whose works,
Saxon, in tlie Bodleian ^lanuscript, Di^djy, 112.
s'-^In "Vila S. Davidi. -,. "
3^' See the account of him, in tlie Preface "
the edition of this work, printed A. D. 1505, we have also a Vita S. Patricii, at fol. xlix.
Opera," edited by J. S. Brewer, voL i. , pp. ix. to xcv.
3°- These are — of it : copies
scrijit of the xiv. cent. The Life of St. Patrick commences, at fol. 57. For a
further
This MS. has a full lengtli painting of St. Patrick, fairly executed. MS. Asliniole, 43. ff. 34^41 b. veil. 4to, A. D. 1300. MS. Bodl. 779. ff. 10—17. paper 410, \v. cent. MS. Bodl. Laud. Misc. 315 (1055. ) ff. loo b. —103, veil. 4to, xiii. cent.
3°3 See Bishop Tanner's " Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica," p. 636.
"
MS. Stowensis, vol. ii. No. xxxiv. , pp.
44 to 46.
3"'=* He flourished, about the year 1366.
. See an interesting account of himself and of
his works, in Bisliop Tanner's " Bibliotheca
Britannico-Hibernica," pp. 439, 440.
3" Lib. ii.
3"' Each of these Lives is generally
followed by a collect, styled "Narratio," but which has scarcely any connexion with
tile preceding subject.
added as surplusage.
3'3 There is a MS. Life of St. Patrick,
s"-* '" . See Thomas l'"uller's
History of the Wortiiies of England, vol. i. , Glouce. -,ter-
"
shire, p. 383. This work was first printed,
wiili a
apj^eared,
few explanatory notes, by John Nichols, F. S. A. , at London, EdinlJurgh and Penh,
A,D. iSil. 4to.
3°3 See Henry Morley's "English Writers," vol. i. , book i. , chap, xxii. , p. 711. Also, S. Austin Ailibone's " Critical
Dictionary of luiglish Literature, and British and American Authors," vol. ii. , pp. 1245, 1246.
3°* See " Flores Historiarum," pp. 176 to 17S.
in 1602. A new edition
3'-' He withEdwardthe begins
known as the '* sive de Vitis et Mira- Sanctilogium,
Manuscript collection,
culis Sanctorum Anglice, Walli^e, Scotiai et Hybernite," 31° \y^ which several Saints' Acts are found, 3" arranged in Calendar order. 3'2 One of these Lives
to the latest edition, Giraldi Canihren. -^i. s of this work, in 4S4 pages. It is a Manu-
MS. Bodl.
the reader is referred to
description,
Tanner, 17. ff. 31 39 veil. 4I0, xv. cent. Rev. Dr. Charles O'Conor's Bibliotheca
3''*^ At
the Stowe Manu-
"
present, among
scripts, tliere is a fine folio parchment copy
Confessor, at tlie 5th of January, and he ends appa- rently with Egwin, at the 30th of December. Alter this follow five more Lives, apparently omitted from their proper places, or else
thus described
:
" De Sancto Patricio Epis-
copo e—t Confessore, MS. Cott. Tiber. E. i. "
ff. 6 1 65 b. In his Sanctilogium, No.
35, it is printed, as likewise—in Capgrave's
" Nova
ff. b. b. See Legenda," 259. 264
"
428 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March 17.
has St, Patrick as the subject. 3'3 Omitting many of the collects, John Cap-
grave^'* seems only to have arranged alphabetically those Lives, although, in- deed,hiscelebrityasawriterhaseclipsedthatoftheoriginalauthor. Wefind
an account of St. Patrick, by Petrus de Natalibus,3'5 by John Bale, Protestant Bishop of Ossory,3'6 ^y ^^ Centuriators of Magdeburgh,3'7 by Edmund Campion,3'8 by Pietro Galesini,3'9 by Richard Stanihurst,32° by Cardinal Baronius,32i by Dr. Meredith Hanmer,322 ^\^q ^^^^ \^ Dublin, 1604,3^3 by the Dominican Father, Alphonsus Ciaconius,324 by Zacharias Lippeloo,3^s by William Thyer,326 by Thomas Messingham,327 who also compiled St. Patrick's Office,3^s by Thomas Dempster, who published his Menologium Scotorum,329 and a Historyof the Scottish Church,33o by Camerarius,33i by Rev. Dr. Geoffry Keating,332 in the early part of the seventeenth century,333 and when the
Sir Thomas Duffus "
Hardy's Descriptive
Catalogue of Materials relating to the His- tory of Great Britain and Ireland," vol. i. ,
Sanctorum " records St. Patrick, Confessor,
at the 17th of March. See pp. 981 to 984,
Cologne, 1602, i2mo.
3=' See "Discursus Panegyrici de Nomi-
nibus Tribulationibus et Miraculis S. Pa- tricii Ibernorum Apostoli," cum exhortatione ad Persecutiones pro fidepatienter ferendas, et Apostrophe ad Iberniam, qui auctore eximio Domino ac Magistro Guillielmo
Thyraeo Iberno Corcagiensi Sacrae TheolgiiB Doctore, habiti sunt in Collegio Ibernorum Duaci, anno 1616. Duaci. 1617, i8mo.
part i. , pp. 20, note, 68, 69.
3'* His "Nova Legenda Anglice
"
con- tains a lyife of St. Patrick, Bisliop and Con- fessor, at sexto decimo Kalendis Aprilis. See fol. cclx. , cclxi. , cclxii. , cclxiii. , cclxiiii. ,
cclxv.
3'5 See Catalogus Sanctoram," fol.
"
Ixxiiii. Lugduni, 1 5 14, small fol.
"
3'* See his
ris Britanniae, quam nunc Angliam et SCo-
tiam vocant, Catalogus," &c. Cent, i. . No. Jocelyn's Life of St. Patrick, in 196
Scriptorum Illustrium Majo-
xliiii. , p. 43. Basilese, 1557, folio.
3'7 See " Quinta Centuria Ecclesiasticre
chapters. See
Historise," tomus ii. , cent, v. , cap. ii. , col. 18, cap. v. , cols. 641, 642, cap. vi. , col. 682, cap. X. , cols. 1427 to 1429. Basilere, 1559 et seq. fol.
3'8 See " A Historie of Ireland, written in the yeare 1571," cap. xii. , xiii. , pp. 51 to 61. Dublin, Reprint 1809. Royal 8vo.
3'9 In his notes, to the Roman Martyr-
ology, printed at Milan, in 1577.
3^° See " De Vita S. Patiicii, Hibernice
Apostoli," Libri ii. nunc primum in lucem
edili, Auctore Richardo Stanihvrsto Dubli- niensi, Antverpiai, A. D. 1587, i2mo, a his
small work of only 86 pages, including a Dedication to Alexander Farnese, Duke of
Parma and of Placentia, with a Preface, ad- dressed to the reader.
3^' In " Annales Ecclesiastici," tomus v. ,
sect, clxxxviii. , p. 518, et seq.