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.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3
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. , tomus vi. ,
sect. XX. , 399, Venetiis, 1705 et Tiie p. seq.
first edition of this celebrated work appeared , in twelve folio volumes, at Rome, A. D. 1588 to 1593. It brings the Annals of the Church down to the year 1198.
3-^ See " Chronicle of Ireland," pp. 76 to
333 We are told, he finished his History, 3=3 See Ilarris' Ware, vol. iii. , "Writers in the Irish language, shortly after King of Ireland," book ii. , chap, v. , p. 328. Charles I. became king, whicli was in the Hanmer wrote an " Ephemeris of the Saints year 1625. This Histoiy was multiplied, in of Ireland," as we learn from the same Irish Manuscripts, by copyists. At last, one authority. Dermod O'Conor translated it into English, ^-'' See " Vitre et Gesta Summorum Pon- and published it, in London, A. D. 1723, tificum a Christo Domino usque ad Clemen- folio. The same year, it was printed in ternviii. ,pp. 118,119,Romffi,1601,fol. Dublin, Numerouseditionsofithavesince
3'S The First Volume of " Vitre
Lippeloo's appeared.
89, Dublin, Reprint 1809, Royal 8vo.
3-7 He published a Prologue, with
"
Florilegium Insulae Sanc- torum," pp. I to 85. Then follows, with Preface, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii Hibernorum Apostoli, by Henricus
Saltereiensis, xiii. chapters, pp. 86 to 109 Then follow, Elucidationes in Jocelinum,
by David Roth, Bishop of Ossory, pp. 110 to 140. Parisiis, 1624, 410.
3^^ It was printed, in a work, " Officia SS. Patricii, Columbte, Brigidse, et aliorum quorundam Hibernire Sanctorum," Parisiis, 1620.
3-9 It appeared, at Bologna, A. D. 1622, 4to; Bishop Forbes has republished it, in
"
33° It first was issued at Bologna, A. D.
Kalendars of Scottish Saints. "
1627, 4to. A later edition has appeared, at Edinburgh, in 1829, 4to. We refer to the
"
latter. See
Scotorum," tomus ii. , lib. xv. , num. looi. S. Patricius, pp. 520 to 528.
33' See " De Statu Hominis, Veteris sinuil ac novas Ecclesice, et Infidelium Con- versione," lib. i. , pars, ii. , cap. iii. , sect. 2, pp. 166, 167. Catalavni, 1627, 410.
332 See "General History of Ireland," book ii. Duffy's edition, 1854, 8vo.
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
March 17. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 429
author was considerably advanced in years,334 by Philip O'Sullevan Beare,333 byArchbishopUssher,336andbyJuanPerezdeMontalvan,337 Ananony- mous Life of St. Patrick was pubhshed, at St. Omers, a. d. 1625. 338 This
" Life of S.
and Primate of Ireland ; together with the Lives of the Holy Virgin S. Bridget, and of the glorious Abbot S. Columbe, Patrons of Ireland. 339 St. Patrick's Purgatory,34° and St. Patrick, his Purgatory,34i were published in the seventeenth century, as also Colgan's celebrated Acts and Dissertations on our saint. Besides these are to be met with, Von der Fegfeuer Patricy in
seems to have been under the re-issued,
title,
Patricke, Apostle
Ybernia,342 and again, there is a folio of two leaves, De Purgatorio S. "
Patricii in Ybernia. 343 Again, Frangois Bouillon,344 published a Histoire
de la Vie et du Purgatoire de S. Patrice, archevesque et primat d'Hy- bernie;"345 and,intheItalianlanguage,CelsoFalconi346producedanother Tract, relating to St. Patrick. Various allusions to him are contained, in the works of Sir James Ware. 347 In the Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical History of Michael Alford,348 he has noticed chronologically the incidents of St. Patrick's life. The great Bollandist collection,349 as we may well suppose, contains a
334 "338"
See Harris' Ware, vol. iii. , Writers
of Ireland," book i. , chap, xiv,, pp. 105, 106.
335 Among other valuable Irish woi'ks, he
*'
Patriciana Decas, sive Libri De- cern, quibus de Divi Patricii Vita, Purga-
It bears for title, Life of the Gloriovs
Bishop S. Patricke, Apostle and Primate of Ireland, togeather witli the Lives of the Holy Virgin S. Bridgit and of tlie Gloriovs Abbot Saint Colvmbe, Patrons of Ireland," in 4to.
339 At the end of " Lives of the Villegas'
Saints," A. D. 1628, 4to.
340 By Henry Jones, Bishop of Clogher,
A. D. 1647, 4to.
34' This has neither date, nor paging. It
is a4to, and a copy is to be found, in the British Museum.
34^ This is a folio of three leaves only, with a Avoodcut of Purgatory.
343 It includes a woodcut. But neither of these Tracts has a date.
3''4 This was published, at Paris, A. D. 165 1, 12mo.
wrote,
de Religionis Ibernicte Casibus, Constantia, Martyrihus, Divis : De Anglorum lubrica fide ; De Anglo-Hsereticae Ecclesise sectis, Cacoprsesulibus, . Jubileis plenissimis, litur- gia, Sacra Pagina, C? eremoniis, et institutis
accurate agitur," Matriti, 1629, 4to.
33* See especially his " Britannicanim Ecclesiarum Antiquitates," cap. xvii. The first edition of this work was issued, in Dublin, A. D. 1639, 4to, and the second, in
London, a. d. 1687, fol.
337 See "Patricio Vida y Purgatorio,"
torio, Miraculis, rebusque gestis,
3-*3 See " Histoire de la Vie et du
toire de S. Patrice, mise en Francois," par second, at Madrid, 1636, 8vo. Another F. Bouillon, Troyes, i2mo, no date. It was
Perez de Mcntalvan. The first edition of this work appeared, A. D. 1627, the
por. Juan
Purga-
edition was issued, at Seville, A. D. 1695,
i2mo. , and one at Segovia, A.
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. , tomus vi. ,
sect. XX. , 399, Venetiis, 1705 et Tiie p. seq.
first edition of this celebrated work appeared , in twelve folio volumes, at Rome, A. D. 1588 to 1593. It brings the Annals of the Church down to the year 1198.
3-^ See " Chronicle of Ireland," pp. 76 to
333 We are told, he finished his History, 3=3 See Ilarris' Ware, vol. iii. , "Writers in the Irish language, shortly after King of Ireland," book ii. , chap, v. , p. 328. Charles I. became king, whicli was in the Hanmer wrote an " Ephemeris of the Saints year 1625. This Histoiy was multiplied, in of Ireland," as we learn from the same Irish Manuscripts, by copyists. At last, one authority. Dermod O'Conor translated it into English, ^-'' See " Vitre et Gesta Summorum Pon- and published it, in London, A. D. 1723, tificum a Christo Domino usque ad Clemen- folio. The same year, it was printed in ternviii. ,pp. 118,119,Romffi,1601,fol. Dublin, Numerouseditionsofithavesince
3'S The First Volume of " Vitre
Lippeloo's appeared.
89, Dublin, Reprint 1809, Royal 8vo.
3-7 He published a Prologue, with
"
Florilegium Insulae Sanc- torum," pp. I to 85. Then follows, with Preface, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii Hibernorum Apostoli, by Henricus
Saltereiensis, xiii. chapters, pp. 86 to 109 Then follow, Elucidationes in Jocelinum,
by David Roth, Bishop of Ossory, pp. 110 to 140. Parisiis, 1624, 410.
3^^ It was printed, in a work, " Officia SS. Patricii, Columbte, Brigidse, et aliorum quorundam Hibernire Sanctorum," Parisiis, 1620.
3-9 It appeared, at Bologna, A. D. 1622, 4to; Bishop Forbes has republished it, in
"
33° It first was issued at Bologna, A. D.
Kalendars of Scottish Saints. "
1627, 4to. A later edition has appeared, at Edinburgh, in 1829, 4to. We refer to the
"
latter. See
Scotorum," tomus ii. , lib. xv. , num. looi. S. Patricius, pp. 520 to 528.
33' See " De Statu Hominis, Veteris sinuil ac novas Ecclesice, et Infidelium Con- versione," lib. i. , pars, ii. , cap. iii. , sect. 2, pp. 166, 167. Catalavni, 1627, 410.
332 See "General History of Ireland," book ii. Duffy's edition, 1854, 8vo.
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
March 17. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 429
author was considerably advanced in years,334 by Philip O'Sullevan Beare,333 byArchbishopUssher,336andbyJuanPerezdeMontalvan,337 Ananony- mous Life of St. Patrick was pubhshed, at St. Omers, a. d. 1625. 338 This
" Life of S.
and Primate of Ireland ; together with the Lives of the Holy Virgin S. Bridget, and of the glorious Abbot S. Columbe, Patrons of Ireland. 339 St. Patrick's Purgatory,34° and St. Patrick, his Purgatory,34i were published in the seventeenth century, as also Colgan's celebrated Acts and Dissertations on our saint. Besides these are to be met with, Von der Fegfeuer Patricy in
seems to have been under the re-issued,
title,
Patricke, Apostle
Ybernia,342 and again, there is a folio of two leaves, De Purgatorio S. "
Patricii in Ybernia. 343 Again, Frangois Bouillon,344 published a Histoire
de la Vie et du Purgatoire de S. Patrice, archevesque et primat d'Hy- bernie;"345 and,intheItalianlanguage,CelsoFalconi346producedanother Tract, relating to St. Patrick. Various allusions to him are contained, in the works of Sir James Ware. 347 In the Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical History of Michael Alford,348 he has noticed chronologically the incidents of St. Patrick's life. The great Bollandist collection,349 as we may well suppose, contains a
334 "338"
See Harris' Ware, vol. iii. , Writers
of Ireland," book i. , chap, xiv,, pp. 105, 106.
335 Among other valuable Irish woi'ks, he
*'
Patriciana Decas, sive Libri De- cern, quibus de Divi Patricii Vita, Purga-
It bears for title, Life of the Gloriovs
Bishop S. Patricke, Apostle and Primate of Ireland, togeather witli the Lives of the Holy Virgin S. Bridgit and of tlie Gloriovs Abbot Saint Colvmbe, Patrons of Ireland," in 4to.
339 At the end of " Lives of the Villegas'
Saints," A. D. 1628, 4to.
340 By Henry Jones, Bishop of Clogher,
A. D. 1647, 4to.
34' This has neither date, nor paging. It
is a4to, and a copy is to be found, in the British Museum.
34^ This is a folio of three leaves only, with a Avoodcut of Purgatory.
343 It includes a woodcut. But neither of these Tracts has a date.
3''4 This was published, at Paris, A. D. 165 1, 12mo.
wrote,
de Religionis Ibernicte Casibus, Constantia, Martyrihus, Divis : De Anglorum lubrica fide ; De Anglo-Hsereticae Ecclesise sectis, Cacoprsesulibus, . Jubileis plenissimis, litur- gia, Sacra Pagina, C? eremoniis, et institutis
accurate agitur," Matriti, 1629, 4to.
33* See especially his " Britannicanim Ecclesiarum Antiquitates," cap. xvii. The first edition of this work was issued, in Dublin, A. D. 1639, 4to, and the second, in
London, a. d. 1687, fol.
337 See "Patricio Vida y Purgatorio,"
torio, Miraculis, rebusque gestis,
3-*3 See " Histoire de la Vie et du
toire de S. Patrice, mise en Francois," par second, at Madrid, 1636, 8vo. Another F. Bouillon, Troyes, i2mo, no date. It was
Perez de Mcntalvan. The first edition of this work appeared, A. D. 1627, the
por. Juan
Purga-
edition was issued, at Seville, A. D. 1695,
i2mo. , and one at Segovia, A.
