3 The Martyrology of
Donegal*
simply records the name Sarbile, of Fochard, at the same date.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9
, note 69, p.
50.
F. Cusack'b " Life of St. Patrick, Apostle of
Ireland. " William M. Hennessy's transla- tion of the Irish Tripartite Life of St.
Patrick, part iii. , pp. 485, 486. Coll-na- ningean is rendered "the hazel tree of the virgins," but the denomination is now obso- lete. Druim-fenneda is rendered " the ridge
lete. Cengoba is explained by the Rev.
16
Following the context of the Third
96 LIVESOETHEIRISHSAINTS. [September4.
breath doth blow even whither and how he listeth ; and who oftentimes calleth to Himself, without any preaching, those whom he had predestined for eternal life. Afterwards, having expounded to the damsel the rules of Christian Faith, he catechised and baptised her, while confessing her belief in the true Faith. He also strengthened her with the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. St. Ness, or Munessa, is classed among the holy virgins, who received the veil from St. Patrick. 18 The chief incidents of her life must be referred to between the year 432, when St. Patrick came to open his mission in Ireland, and to about the year 460, when he is thought to have departed this life, in the opinion of Fathers Papebroke and Suyskens. The latter supposed, that the
baptism and reception of St. Munessa happened during the last five years of J
the life of Ireland's great Apostle. 9 Having received the Holy Viaticum, Munessa fell to the ground in the midst of her prayers, and breathed forth her spirit. Thus she ascended from the font, spotless and washed from all sin, led by angels to the sight of her fair and beautiful beloved. Then did St. Patrick, and all who were present, glorify God. With honourable sepulture, they committed Munessa's holy remains to the earth. 20 The various Lives of St. Patrick do not name the place of this interment, nor where, in aftertime, the community of holy women was established, as he
21
tells us, that in his own day, the memory of St. Muneria had been observed
had then predicted.
Probus, or the author of the Apostle's Fifth Life, only
in that same 22 which place,
to have been known to him tradition. by
appears
The death of this holy virgin has been assigned to a. d. 450, in one of the
23 sent
by
Father
White2* to Father The Rosweyde.
Stephen
Martyrology of Donegal 2S states, that veneration was given at the 4th of
Manuscripts,
September,toNessofErnaidh. AccordingtoWilliamM. Hennessy,this
26
place is to be identified with Urney, in the County of Tyrone.
present Munissa be identical with the King of Britain's daughter, who with nine daughters of the Lombard King, lived or died at Coll-na-ningean, near Armagh, or at another place, called Druim-Fennedha, the foregoing statement of Mr. Hennessy cannot be admitted. Nor can the distinction between that
foregoing daughter of the British King and the present St. Munessa be 2
regarded as properly established. 7
Article IV. —St. Comhgall, of Both-Conais, County of Donegal. ^'eve? tth Century,,] At the 4th of September, we find entered in the
18
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Appendix ad Acta S. Patricii, cap. xxiii. , p. 269.
19 See "Acta Sanctorum Septembris,"
tomus ii. Die Quarta Septembris. De S.
Munessa seu Monessa, Virg. in Hibernia.
Commentarius prrcvius, sect. 6, p. 226.
in ipsa vetere Scotia seu Hiberniaaut mortui
sunt, aut post mortem eo translati. Ex
quorum plurimis pauciorum, qui sequuntur, nomina nic (sell. Dilingen, as seams) ubi dego, reperta dabo. "
=•» Thus written: " Muneria, quae et Me-
messa virg<>, filia regis, baptisata a S- Patricio, qui ejus aniinam in coelum ascen- dentem viderat circa annum salutis CCCCL. "
=5 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
2t,6 237,
=6 See where mention is made of this place,
at lhe IIth of February, as also at the 1st
:°
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga,"
Sexta Vita S. Patricii, cap. clix. , p. 100. 21 "
See the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum
Septembris," tomus ii. Die Quarta Sep- tembris. De S. Munessa seu Monessa, Virg. in Hiberma. Commentanus proevius, sect 2, p. 226.
"See Colgan's 'Trias Thaumaturga,'
Quinta Vita S. Patricii, lib. 11. , cap. xxvi. ,
P- 59- ^ and nn. 70, 71, p. 50, and Septima Vita S.
•3 Marked MS. 167 F , and having the Patricii, lib. iii. , cap. lxxiii. , p. 163, and nn. title: "Octavus Catalogus Sanctorum, qui 100, IOI, p. 187.
and 3rd of August.
«7 See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga,"
Quarta Vita S. Patricii, cap. lxxxviii. , p. 46,
If the
September 4
]
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
97
1 the name
venerated. He is said to have been the brother of St. Cele-Christ, or
Christicola, whose family and parentage have been already noticed in his Acts, which occur at the 3rd of March. 3 It is said, he descended from the race of Eoghan, son to Niall. This saint must have been born sometime about, or after, the middle of the seventh century. We read, that his place was situated in Glean Daoile, in Inis Eoghain,* or Inishowen, and it seems likely that he was a native of that part of Ireland. Both-Chonais, mentioned in our Annals in the middle of the ninth century and at a still later period,
is rendered into " Conas' English by
of Martyrology Tallagh
Comgall
"
Dr. O'Donovan thought—although the former name was obsolete—it must
have been Templemoyle, in the parish of Culdaff, and barony of Inishowen. 5
6
But, he afterwards discovered better evidence for correcting his opinion ;
and he states, it is obviously the old grave yard, in the townland of Binnion,?
8
parish of Clonmany, barony of Inishowen, and County of Donegal.
This saint is recorded in the Martyrology of Donegal,9 at the same date, as Comhgall,sontoEochaidh,ofBoth-Conais. AccordingtoRev. JohnFrancis
10
Shearman, Cella Comgalli, or Kilcomgall, now Shankhill," in the County
of was called after this Dublin,
founder.
saint,
12 who was the
patron,
and its perhaps
Article V. —St. Cummein, Abbot of Drumsnat, County of Mona- ghan. Fromwhathasbeenalreadystatedattheistofthismonth,itseems probable, that the present saint may be identified with St. Cuimmen, son of Cuanna or Cuanach. The of 1 inserts a
published Martyrology Tallagh
festival at the the 4th of September, in honour of Comen, Abbot of Droma
That copy of it in the Book of Leinster contains a nearly similar This place is probably identical with Drumsnat, in Farney. 3
Sneachta.
insertion.
Fearnmhagh was the ancient name of this district. It is said to mean " the Alder Plain ;" and, it was the old Irish denomination for the barony of Farney, in the County of Monaghan. * The Martyrology of Donegal5 likewise registers Cummein, as Abbot of Druim Sneachta, and at this date.
2
Article VI. —St. Senan. No account remains, whereby we may determine the time in which this saint lived, the place he inhabited, or the
Article iv. —* In the copy contained in
the Book of Leinster, at this date, we find
Com^elli . 1. Ooch ConAir\
Four Masters," vol. ii. , n. (q), p. 722.
9 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
236, 237.
2 I0 See edition of Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxxiii.
3 See an account of him at that date, in the Third Volume of this work, Ait. iii.
The Rev. Dr. Todd states in a note, that this inserted clause and identification are added by a second hand in the O'Clerys' Manuscript.
5 See "Annals of the Four Masters," vol. i. , n. (d), p. 483.
6 See Colgan's " Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Appendix ad Acta S. Patricii, cap. iv. , p. 231.
7 Markedonthe"OrdnanceSurveyTown-
land Maps for the County of Donegal," sheets 3, 10.
8"
See Dr. O'Donovan's Annals of the
So called in the "Concessio," dated 1198.
booth,"
tent,"
first,
of Boith a as been Conais, having
" Near Bray. """
or " hut. " At
See Loca Patriciana, part x. , p. 258. Article v. —1 Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxxiii.
2 In this form, Commein 4b "Orvomm
SneccAi.
3 See the notices in the Eighth Volume of
this work, concerning St. Molua, at the 4th day of August, Art. i. , Life, chap, ii. , and nn. 15, 16, ibid.
4 See " Dr. O'Donovan 's "Annals of the
Four Masters," vol. i. , n. (x). p. 36.
s Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
236, 237.
G
98 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. September 4.
rank to which he attained. This is unhappily the case regarding many other
Irish saints.
A festival in honour of Senan appears in the published
of Martyrology Tallagh,
1 atthe of omitsthename 4th September. Colgan
2
of this holy man, by passing over the same date, where he enumerates those
saints bearing the same name in our Irish Calendars. In the Martyrology of Donegal,3 an identical diurnal entry is to be found.
Article VII. —St. Sarbile, Virgin of Fochart, County of Louth. As Mary, mentioned in the Gospel, loved to sit at the feet of Jesus, so do holy virgins desire that calm and rest, in which His voice is best heard
Boyne to the Mountains of Cuilgne, or Carlingford.
3 The Martyrology of Donegal* simply records the name Sarbile, of Fochard, at the same date. This may have been the St. Orbilia, Virgin, whose Acts Colgan had intended to produce at the present day, as we have gathered from the list of his
5 unpublished manuscripts.
to their hearts. We find set down in the of Martyrology Tallagh,
1
speaking
at the 4th of September, that veneration was given to Sarbile, Virgin of Fochairde, or Fochart, in the old district of Murtheimhne. 2 This is now a level country in the present County of Louth. It extends from the River
Article VIII. —St. Peneux. {Sixth Century. ] In the sixth century 1
flourished a holy abbot, who is known in Bretagne, as St. Peneux, His feast is assigned to June 4th, and to September 4th.
Article IX. —St. Aedhan Amlonn, possibly at Clontarf, County
of Dublin. The name, Aedhan Amlonn, is the simple entry found in the
of 1 at the 4th of September. The Genealogic Martyrology Donegal,
2 records a saint of this name, belonging to St. Brigid's race, and he is said to have been the son of Lugar, son to Ernin, son of Coel, son to Aid, son of Sanius, son to Arturus Corb, son of Cairbre Niadh, son to Cormac, son of ^Engus Menn, son of Eochadh Finn, son to Fethlimi—d Reachtmair, King of Ireland. This saint was venerated at Cluain Tarbh now possibly Clontarf, County of Dublin—either on the 27th of August,3 or on the 4th of
September. *
Article vi. —'Edited by Rev. Dr. "Annals of The Four Musters," vol. i. , n. Kelly, p. xxxiii. It is also in that copy (u), p. 10.
Sanctilogy
contained in the Book of Leinster, thus, Senam.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae," viii.
Martii. Vita S. Senani, Appendix, cap. i. ,
p. 541, {recU) 537.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
4 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
236, 237.
s See " Catalogus Actuum Sanctorum
quae MS. habentur, ordine Mensium et Dierum. "
Article viil— ' His Acts are to be found
"
236, 237. So he is simply named Senan, in Lobineau's Vies des Saints de la Bre-
in the Irish Ordnance Survey MS. copy of
tagne," tome i. , pp. 248 to 250.
this Calendar, — p. 75.
Article IX. —x Edited Reeves, pp. 236, 237.
a
by
Drs. Toddand
Article vn. Kelly, p. xxxiii.
'
Edited by Rev. Dr.
a In the copy of theTallaght Martyrology, found in the Book of Leinster, we read
Sainbile Uin. £och<yirvoe muin.
3 Dundalk, Louth, Druimiskin, Faughard
Chap. xiv.
3 See notices of St. Aedhan or Aidan, at
that day, in the Eighth Volume of this work, Art. iii.
* See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga. "
and Monasterboice are mentioned as having
been in this place. See Dr. O'Donovan's p. 613.
Appendix Quarta ad Acta S. Brigidae, cap. 3,
September 4. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
99
ArticleX. —St. Failbhe. Inthe
at the 4th of September, there is a Feast for Failbe Mac Ronain, of Cluain
Airbelaig.
2 We have
already
1
seen, that in the of 3 this Martyrology Donegal,
saint's feast occurs on the 1st day of this month j and again at the 4th, there
is a festival for Failbhe. Some mistake or misplacement appears to have
published Martyrology
of
Tallagh,
that this same saint had two different one occurring on the 1st, and the other having been held on the
occurred— it
; yet, perhaps, may be, 4th of September.
festivals
Article XI. —Reputed Feast of St. Erentrudis, or Erentrude, Abbess of Salzburg. In the Martyrology of Greven, and also in one belonging to the Church of St. Martin in Treves, there is commemoration of St. Herentrude, Virgin, at the 4th of September. In their notice of this entry,
1
theBollandistsstate, thatifshebeidenticalwithSt. Erentrude,orErendrude,
Abbess, and whose Translation had been recorded on the previous day, the reader may consult her Acts, at the 30th of June, which was her chief festival.
2
Article XII. — St. Fiachrach. In that copy of the Martyrology of Tallagh, to be found in the Book of Leinster, there is the simple entry of Fiachruch,1 at this date. This name is omitted, however, in the published copy. * Moreover, Fiachrach, without any further designation, is set down in the Martyrology of Donegal,* at the 4th of September.
Article XIII. —Reputed Commemoration or Canonization of St. Swibert, or Suitbert, Bishop and Apostle of the Frisons and of the Boructuarians. The supposed Canonization of St. Swibert, or Suitbert,
1
However, it is called the commemoration—and by a better title—in the German Martyrology of Canisius. Allusion is made to this reputed Feast, by the Bollandists, at this date. 2 The Life of St. Swibert, or Suitbert, has been
already given, at the 1st of March,3 the day for his chief Festival.
Article XIV. —Reputed Feast of St. Veran, Confessor, at Rheims, France. \ Sixth Century]. Already have we mentioned Veran as one of
At the same day, an account of her will be found in this work.
Bishop of Verden, is placed by Greven, at the 4th of September.
the
holy brothers,
that
accompanied
St. Gibrian 1 from Ireland, when he went
Article x. —' p. xxxiii.
Leo being Pontiff, and in the presence of Charle- magne, according to Wion, Dorgan and Menard. This relation, however, is proved to be apocryphal, by the Bollandists, as may be seen in the commentary prefixed to the Life of St. Luger, first Bishop of Minister, Article xi. —x See "Acta Sanctorum in at the 26th of March,
Septembris," tomus ii. Among the preter- mittcd saints, p. 3.
2
See the Sixth Volume, Art. i. Articlexii. —« Thus: pAchraicri
2
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
of May, in the Fifth Volume of this work, Article xiil—« This is stated to have Art. ii.
2
Edited
Rev. Dr.
by Kelly,
taken in the place,
2
See "Acta Sanctorum Septembris. " tomus ii. Die Quarta Septembris. Among thepretermittedFeasts,p. 2.
3 See the Third—Volume of this work, Art. ii.
l
Article xiv. See his Life, at the 8th
Also in that copy contained in the Book of Leinster is the entry of polbe niAc Konin, at this date.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 236» 237-
236, 237.
Westphalia, day sect. 7, 8.
year
803
;
Pope
III.
ioo LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
to preach the Gospel in France. He was buried at a village called Matusgum,
2
and there his relics were greatly venerated.
had a Feast, on the 4th of September, as the Bollandists observe, at this same day. * However, his festival is placed, at the 3rd of December, by Ferrarius and Saussay.
Article XV. —Reputed Festival of St. Anatolius, Bishop of 1
Salins,France. AccordingtoFerrarius, thememoryofSt. Anatoliuswas
2
observed in the Diocese of Besangon, in France, on the 4th of September. We have already treated about him, at the 3rd of February, the day for his chief Feast. 3
jftftf) 2Bap of September.
ARTICLE I. —ST. ALTO, FOUNDER AND ABBOT OF ALTMUNSTER. IN BAVARIA.
[EIGHTH CENTURY. ]
the sun, which sends forth many bright and burning rays to light
and warm the land and water of his most distant and LIKE
subjective planets, so as there to spread and spend their force ; so has Ireland, as a
centre of spiritual effulgence and vitality, despatched her missionaries through the early Christian ages, to kindle and inflame the cold and unregenerate souls of benighted heathens and sinful men, in countries far removed from her own shores ; while that spirit has been preserved and extended in after times, and even to our own day, in the multitude of holy men and women, who have parted from their country and family ties, to diffuse glad tidings and blessings in other climes, where their bodies now repose, and whence they shall arise glorified on the Day of General Judgment.
Already, at the 9th day of February, a Feast of St. Alto, Bishop and Founder of Altmunster, in Bavaria, has been commemorated in the Second
1
Volume of this work, and there a reference for fuller particulars regarding
himhasbeendeferredtothe5thdayofSeptember. Again,werecordatthe 5th of August, some notices of festivals, referred by Thomas Dempster 2 to the 7th of February, as also to the 5th of August, together with a fabled account of writings attributed to him. 3 Nearly all the later accounts regarding St. Alto have been taken from a Life, written in the tenth century by an anonymous author. The Acts of St. Alto, said to have existed in
2Aremarkablemiracle,as
took place at his tomb, and it is likewise
"Acta Sanctorum tomus Septembris,"
ii.
vecorded in Flodoard's sis," lib. iv. , cap. ix.
"
Die Quarta Septembris. Among the preter- mitted Saints, p. 2.
3 See the Second Volume of this work,
Scotorum Pietate," lib. iii.
4 See "Acta Sanctorum
See Article xiii.
the pretermitted—Saints, p. 3. "3
Article xv. In Catalogus Generalis
Sanctorum. "
See Colgan's "Acta Sanctorum Hiber- nia? ," Februarii ix. De S. Altone Abbate. n. 6, p. 302.
2
The Bollandists notice this entry in
related, Historia Rhemen-
already
3 See at this date, in his work, "De Art. i. — '
Article
tomus ii. Die Quarta Septembris. Among Scotorum," tomus i. , lib. i. , num.
F. Cusack'b " Life of St. Patrick, Apostle of
Ireland. " William M. Hennessy's transla- tion of the Irish Tripartite Life of St.
Patrick, part iii. , pp. 485, 486. Coll-na- ningean is rendered "the hazel tree of the virgins," but the denomination is now obso- lete. Druim-fenneda is rendered " the ridge
lete. Cengoba is explained by the Rev.
16
Following the context of the Third
96 LIVESOETHEIRISHSAINTS. [September4.
breath doth blow even whither and how he listeth ; and who oftentimes calleth to Himself, without any preaching, those whom he had predestined for eternal life. Afterwards, having expounded to the damsel the rules of Christian Faith, he catechised and baptised her, while confessing her belief in the true Faith. He also strengthened her with the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. St. Ness, or Munessa, is classed among the holy virgins, who received the veil from St. Patrick. 18 The chief incidents of her life must be referred to between the year 432, when St. Patrick came to open his mission in Ireland, and to about the year 460, when he is thought to have departed this life, in the opinion of Fathers Papebroke and Suyskens. The latter supposed, that the
baptism and reception of St. Munessa happened during the last five years of J
the life of Ireland's great Apostle. 9 Having received the Holy Viaticum, Munessa fell to the ground in the midst of her prayers, and breathed forth her spirit. Thus she ascended from the font, spotless and washed from all sin, led by angels to the sight of her fair and beautiful beloved. Then did St. Patrick, and all who were present, glorify God. With honourable sepulture, they committed Munessa's holy remains to the earth. 20 The various Lives of St. Patrick do not name the place of this interment, nor where, in aftertime, the community of holy women was established, as he
21
tells us, that in his own day, the memory of St. Muneria had been observed
had then predicted.
Probus, or the author of the Apostle's Fifth Life, only
in that same 22 which place,
to have been known to him tradition. by
appears
The death of this holy virgin has been assigned to a. d. 450, in one of the
23 sent
by
Father
White2* to Father The Rosweyde.
Stephen
Martyrology of Donegal 2S states, that veneration was given at the 4th of
Manuscripts,
September,toNessofErnaidh. AccordingtoWilliamM. Hennessy,this
26
place is to be identified with Urney, in the County of Tyrone.
present Munissa be identical with the King of Britain's daughter, who with nine daughters of the Lombard King, lived or died at Coll-na-ningean, near Armagh, or at another place, called Druim-Fennedha, the foregoing statement of Mr. Hennessy cannot be admitted. Nor can the distinction between that
foregoing daughter of the British King and the present St. Munessa be 2
regarded as properly established. 7
Article IV. —St. Comhgall, of Both-Conais, County of Donegal. ^'eve? tth Century,,] At the 4th of September, we find entered in the
18
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Appendix ad Acta S. Patricii, cap. xxiii. , p. 269.
19 See "Acta Sanctorum Septembris,"
tomus ii. Die Quarta Septembris. De S.
Munessa seu Monessa, Virg. in Hibernia.
Commentarius prrcvius, sect. 6, p. 226.
in ipsa vetere Scotia seu Hiberniaaut mortui
sunt, aut post mortem eo translati. Ex
quorum plurimis pauciorum, qui sequuntur, nomina nic (sell. Dilingen, as seams) ubi dego, reperta dabo. "
=•» Thus written: " Muneria, quae et Me-
messa virg<>, filia regis, baptisata a S- Patricio, qui ejus aniinam in coelum ascen- dentem viderat circa annum salutis CCCCL. "
=5 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
2t,6 237,
=6 See where mention is made of this place,
at lhe IIth of February, as also at the 1st
:°
See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga,"
Sexta Vita S. Patricii, cap. clix. , p. 100. 21 "
See the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum
Septembris," tomus ii. Die Quarta Sep- tembris. De S. Munessa seu Monessa, Virg. in Hiberma. Commentanus proevius, sect 2, p. 226.
"See Colgan's 'Trias Thaumaturga,'
Quinta Vita S. Patricii, lib. 11. , cap. xxvi. ,
P- 59- ^ and nn. 70, 71, p. 50, and Septima Vita S.
•3 Marked MS. 167 F , and having the Patricii, lib. iii. , cap. lxxiii. , p. 163, and nn. title: "Octavus Catalogus Sanctorum, qui 100, IOI, p. 187.
and 3rd of August.
«7 See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga,"
Quarta Vita S. Patricii, cap. lxxxviii. , p. 46,
If the
September 4
]
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
97
1 the name
venerated. He is said to have been the brother of St. Cele-Christ, or
Christicola, whose family and parentage have been already noticed in his Acts, which occur at the 3rd of March. 3 It is said, he descended from the race of Eoghan, son to Niall. This saint must have been born sometime about, or after, the middle of the seventh century. We read, that his place was situated in Glean Daoile, in Inis Eoghain,* or Inishowen, and it seems likely that he was a native of that part of Ireland. Both-Chonais, mentioned in our Annals in the middle of the ninth century and at a still later period,
is rendered into " Conas' English by
of Martyrology Tallagh
Comgall
"
Dr. O'Donovan thought—although the former name was obsolete—it must
have been Templemoyle, in the parish of Culdaff, and barony of Inishowen. 5
6
But, he afterwards discovered better evidence for correcting his opinion ;
and he states, it is obviously the old grave yard, in the townland of Binnion,?
8
parish of Clonmany, barony of Inishowen, and County of Donegal.
This saint is recorded in the Martyrology of Donegal,9 at the same date, as Comhgall,sontoEochaidh,ofBoth-Conais. AccordingtoRev. JohnFrancis
10
Shearman, Cella Comgalli, or Kilcomgall, now Shankhill," in the County
of was called after this Dublin,
founder.
saint,
12 who was the
patron,
and its perhaps
Article V. —St. Cummein, Abbot of Drumsnat, County of Mona- ghan. Fromwhathasbeenalreadystatedattheistofthismonth,itseems probable, that the present saint may be identified with St. Cuimmen, son of Cuanna or Cuanach. The of 1 inserts a
published Martyrology Tallagh
festival at the the 4th of September, in honour of Comen, Abbot of Droma
That copy of it in the Book of Leinster contains a nearly similar This place is probably identical with Drumsnat, in Farney. 3
Sneachta.
insertion.
Fearnmhagh was the ancient name of this district. It is said to mean " the Alder Plain ;" and, it was the old Irish denomination for the barony of Farney, in the County of Monaghan. * The Martyrology of Donegal5 likewise registers Cummein, as Abbot of Druim Sneachta, and at this date.
2
Article VI. —St. Senan. No account remains, whereby we may determine the time in which this saint lived, the place he inhabited, or the
Article iv. —* In the copy contained in
the Book of Leinster, at this date, we find
Com^elli . 1. Ooch ConAir\
Four Masters," vol. ii. , n. (q), p. 722.
9 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
236, 237.
2 I0 See edition of Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxxiii.
3 See an account of him at that date, in the Third Volume of this work, Ait. iii.
The Rev. Dr. Todd states in a note, that this inserted clause and identification are added by a second hand in the O'Clerys' Manuscript.
5 See "Annals of the Four Masters," vol. i. , n. (d), p. 483.
6 See Colgan's " Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Appendix ad Acta S. Patricii, cap. iv. , p. 231.
7 Markedonthe"OrdnanceSurveyTown-
land Maps for the County of Donegal," sheets 3, 10.
8"
See Dr. O'Donovan's Annals of the
So called in the "Concessio," dated 1198.
booth,"
tent,"
first,
of Boith a as been Conais, having
" Near Bray. """
or " hut. " At
See Loca Patriciana, part x. , p. 258. Article v. —1 Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxxiii.
2 In this form, Commein 4b "Orvomm
SneccAi.
3 See the notices in the Eighth Volume of
this work, concerning St. Molua, at the 4th day of August, Art. i. , Life, chap, ii. , and nn. 15, 16, ibid.
4 See " Dr. O'Donovan 's "Annals of the
Four Masters," vol. i. , n. (x). p. 36.
s Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
236, 237.
G
98 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. September 4.
rank to which he attained. This is unhappily the case regarding many other
Irish saints.
A festival in honour of Senan appears in the published
of Martyrology Tallagh,
1 atthe of omitsthename 4th September. Colgan
2
of this holy man, by passing over the same date, where he enumerates those
saints bearing the same name in our Irish Calendars. In the Martyrology of Donegal,3 an identical diurnal entry is to be found.
Article VII. —St. Sarbile, Virgin of Fochart, County of Louth. As Mary, mentioned in the Gospel, loved to sit at the feet of Jesus, so do holy virgins desire that calm and rest, in which His voice is best heard
Boyne to the Mountains of Cuilgne, or Carlingford.
3 The Martyrology of Donegal* simply records the name Sarbile, of Fochard, at the same date. This may have been the St. Orbilia, Virgin, whose Acts Colgan had intended to produce at the present day, as we have gathered from the list of his
5 unpublished manuscripts.
to their hearts. We find set down in the of Martyrology Tallagh,
1
speaking
at the 4th of September, that veneration was given to Sarbile, Virgin of Fochairde, or Fochart, in the old district of Murtheimhne. 2 This is now a level country in the present County of Louth. It extends from the River
Article VIII. —St. Peneux. {Sixth Century. ] In the sixth century 1
flourished a holy abbot, who is known in Bretagne, as St. Peneux, His feast is assigned to June 4th, and to September 4th.
Article IX. —St. Aedhan Amlonn, possibly at Clontarf, County
of Dublin. The name, Aedhan Amlonn, is the simple entry found in the
of 1 at the 4th of September. The Genealogic Martyrology Donegal,
2 records a saint of this name, belonging to St. Brigid's race, and he is said to have been the son of Lugar, son to Ernin, son of Coel, son to Aid, son of Sanius, son to Arturus Corb, son of Cairbre Niadh, son to Cormac, son of ^Engus Menn, son of Eochadh Finn, son to Fethlimi—d Reachtmair, King of Ireland. This saint was venerated at Cluain Tarbh now possibly Clontarf, County of Dublin—either on the 27th of August,3 or on the 4th of
September. *
Article vi. —'Edited by Rev. Dr. "Annals of The Four Musters," vol. i. , n. Kelly, p. xxxiii. It is also in that copy (u), p. 10.
Sanctilogy
contained in the Book of Leinster, thus, Senam.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae," viii.
Martii. Vita S. Senani, Appendix, cap. i. ,
p. 541, {recU) 537.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
4 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
236, 237.
s See " Catalogus Actuum Sanctorum
quae MS. habentur, ordine Mensium et Dierum. "
Article viil— ' His Acts are to be found
"
236, 237. So he is simply named Senan, in Lobineau's Vies des Saints de la Bre-
in the Irish Ordnance Survey MS. copy of
tagne," tome i. , pp. 248 to 250.
this Calendar, — p. 75.
Article IX. —x Edited Reeves, pp. 236, 237.
a
by
Drs. Toddand
Article vn. Kelly, p. xxxiii.
'
Edited by Rev. Dr.
a In the copy of theTallaght Martyrology, found in the Book of Leinster, we read
Sainbile Uin. £och<yirvoe muin.
3 Dundalk, Louth, Druimiskin, Faughard
Chap. xiv.
3 See notices of St. Aedhan or Aidan, at
that day, in the Eighth Volume of this work, Art. iii.
* See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga. "
and Monasterboice are mentioned as having
been in this place. See Dr. O'Donovan's p. 613.
Appendix Quarta ad Acta S. Brigidae, cap. 3,
September 4. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
99
ArticleX. —St. Failbhe. Inthe
at the 4th of September, there is a Feast for Failbe Mac Ronain, of Cluain
Airbelaig.
2 We have
already
1
seen, that in the of 3 this Martyrology Donegal,
saint's feast occurs on the 1st day of this month j and again at the 4th, there
is a festival for Failbhe. Some mistake or misplacement appears to have
published Martyrology
of
Tallagh,
that this same saint had two different one occurring on the 1st, and the other having been held on the
occurred— it
; yet, perhaps, may be, 4th of September.
festivals
Article XI. —Reputed Feast of St. Erentrudis, or Erentrude, Abbess of Salzburg. In the Martyrology of Greven, and also in one belonging to the Church of St. Martin in Treves, there is commemoration of St. Herentrude, Virgin, at the 4th of September. In their notice of this entry,
1
theBollandistsstate, thatifshebeidenticalwithSt. Erentrude,orErendrude,
Abbess, and whose Translation had been recorded on the previous day, the reader may consult her Acts, at the 30th of June, which was her chief festival.
2
Article XII. — St. Fiachrach. In that copy of the Martyrology of Tallagh, to be found in the Book of Leinster, there is the simple entry of Fiachruch,1 at this date. This name is omitted, however, in the published copy. * Moreover, Fiachrach, without any further designation, is set down in the Martyrology of Donegal,* at the 4th of September.
Article XIII. —Reputed Commemoration or Canonization of St. Swibert, or Suitbert, Bishop and Apostle of the Frisons and of the Boructuarians. The supposed Canonization of St. Swibert, or Suitbert,
1
However, it is called the commemoration—and by a better title—in the German Martyrology of Canisius. Allusion is made to this reputed Feast, by the Bollandists, at this date. 2 The Life of St. Swibert, or Suitbert, has been
already given, at the 1st of March,3 the day for his chief Festival.
Article XIV. —Reputed Feast of St. Veran, Confessor, at Rheims, France. \ Sixth Century]. Already have we mentioned Veran as one of
At the same day, an account of her will be found in this work.
Bishop of Verden, is placed by Greven, at the 4th of September.
the
holy brothers,
that
accompanied
St. Gibrian 1 from Ireland, when he went
Article x. —' p. xxxiii.
Leo being Pontiff, and in the presence of Charle- magne, according to Wion, Dorgan and Menard. This relation, however, is proved to be apocryphal, by the Bollandists, as may be seen in the commentary prefixed to the Life of St. Luger, first Bishop of Minister, Article xi. —x See "Acta Sanctorum in at the 26th of March,
Septembris," tomus ii. Among the preter- mittcd saints, p. 3.
2
See the Sixth Volume, Art. i. Articlexii. —« Thus: pAchraicri
2
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
of May, in the Fifth Volume of this work, Article xiil—« This is stated to have Art. ii.
2
Edited
Rev. Dr.
by Kelly,
taken in the place,
2
See "Acta Sanctorum Septembris. " tomus ii. Die Quarta Septembris. Among thepretermittedFeasts,p. 2.
3 See the Third—Volume of this work, Art. ii.
l
Article xiv. See his Life, at the 8th
Also in that copy contained in the Book of Leinster is the entry of polbe niAc Konin, at this date.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 236» 237-
236, 237.
Westphalia, day sect. 7, 8.
year
803
;
Pope
III.
ioo LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
to preach the Gospel in France. He was buried at a village called Matusgum,
2
and there his relics were greatly venerated.
had a Feast, on the 4th of September, as the Bollandists observe, at this same day. * However, his festival is placed, at the 3rd of December, by Ferrarius and Saussay.
Article XV. —Reputed Festival of St. Anatolius, Bishop of 1
Salins,France. AccordingtoFerrarius, thememoryofSt. Anatoliuswas
2
observed in the Diocese of Besangon, in France, on the 4th of September. We have already treated about him, at the 3rd of February, the day for his chief Feast. 3
jftftf) 2Bap of September.
ARTICLE I. —ST. ALTO, FOUNDER AND ABBOT OF ALTMUNSTER. IN BAVARIA.
[EIGHTH CENTURY. ]
the sun, which sends forth many bright and burning rays to light
and warm the land and water of his most distant and LIKE
subjective planets, so as there to spread and spend their force ; so has Ireland, as a
centre of spiritual effulgence and vitality, despatched her missionaries through the early Christian ages, to kindle and inflame the cold and unregenerate souls of benighted heathens and sinful men, in countries far removed from her own shores ; while that spirit has been preserved and extended in after times, and even to our own day, in the multitude of holy men and women, who have parted from their country and family ties, to diffuse glad tidings and blessings in other climes, where their bodies now repose, and whence they shall arise glorified on the Day of General Judgment.
Already, at the 9th day of February, a Feast of St. Alto, Bishop and Founder of Altmunster, in Bavaria, has been commemorated in the Second
1
Volume of this work, and there a reference for fuller particulars regarding
himhasbeendeferredtothe5thdayofSeptember. Again,werecordatthe 5th of August, some notices of festivals, referred by Thomas Dempster 2 to the 7th of February, as also to the 5th of August, together with a fabled account of writings attributed to him. 3 Nearly all the later accounts regarding St. Alto have been taken from a Life, written in the tenth century by an anonymous author. The Acts of St. Alto, said to have existed in
2Aremarkablemiracle,as
took place at his tomb, and it is likewise
"Acta Sanctorum tomus Septembris,"
ii.
vecorded in Flodoard's sis," lib. iv. , cap. ix.
"
Die Quarta Septembris. Among the preter- mitted Saints, p. 2.
3 See the Second Volume of this work,
Scotorum Pietate," lib. iii.
4 See "Acta Sanctorum
See Article xiii.
the pretermitted—Saints, p. 3. "3
Article xv. In Catalogus Generalis
Sanctorum. "
See Colgan's "Acta Sanctorum Hiber- nia? ," Februarii ix. De S. Altone Abbate. n. 6, p. 302.
2
The Bollandists notice this entry in
related, Historia Rhemen-
already
3 See at this date, in his work, "De Art. i. — '
Article
tomus ii. Die Quarta Septembris. Among Scotorum," tomus i. , lib. i. , num.
