Deuiantes etiam et a via veritatis declinantes ; adspem
fiduciae
verbo suae predicationis reuocabat.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9
In the year 1 1 4.
6, the bridge was finished, according to Matthew Meiian, in his "Topographia Bavaria.
''
"3 See " Miracula," auctore P. Ludovico Babenstuber, Benedictino Fttalensi, cap. vii.
the §
him as a reward. This is regarded by experienced a crushing defeat at Nordling. e,
and their disaster was attributed to the but it is held, that to commemorate that saint,whosechapelhadbeensosacrilegiously
legend, a chapel was there dedicated to St. violated during the previous year.
L
Father Suysken as only a popular tradition ;
"
4 In th—e year 1634, and o—n the 6th of
September
St.
Magnus' day
Beringerua
and
position,
[62 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[September 6.
its containing Irish manuscripts,"* and referable to a very remote date. Other places had erections in honour ot our saint : viz. , at Chiebach or
Kuebach,
in Suevia, a chapel ; church.
in
there was a of nunnery
Bavaria,
at Steinbach,
monastery.
"5 Among these was an old codex Vita S. Brigidae, attributed to St. Ultan of Ard- braccan as author. He lived in the fifth and sixth centuries. See his Acts, in the present volume, at the 4th of September, Art. i. , and especially n. 50, ibid.
116 Hundius thinks this had been founded
at Fiiessen were to be seen the
6
pious virgins ;"
and at Huglfingan, in Bavaria, there was a parochial
Besides the staff of Columban, which had fallen successively into the
keeping of St. Gall and St. Magnus, and which had been preserved in later
ages at Fiissen ; the Canons Regular or Praemonstratensian Fathers, at IX
Schussenreidt, 7 procured a portion of that relic, which was kept in their convent,butatwhattimeisnowunknown. Thiswasinsertedinabeautiful and an artistic staff, fashioned of silver, adorned with gold — and
1'8
various precious stones. It was four feet, four inches, in length
according
to the local measurement—
from the surmounted with a top,
figure
of St.
Magnus, at the end. "9 On the breast of the silver figure is a cavity, con-
taining a particle of the cambula, and it has a crystal covering, about two
inches in length, by one inch in breadth. 120 As in the case of the staff at
Fiissen, this artificial staff is held in great veneration by the people at
Sorethan, who carry it about the fields and gardens, for the destruction of
121
noxious insects.
the Rev. Cistercian Abbot, Stephen Jung, ol the Salemitan monastery, in Suevia, and Vicar General of his Order, when on a visitation of his houses, he came to Fiissen. He then had a staff, fashioned like that at Fiissen, and in it he enclosed the relic presented to him. This staff was used, likewise, to drive away worms and other noxions insects from lands subject to the
Another small particle of the staff had been obtained by
132 In the maniple,
Cistercian
ornamented cowl,123 stole and
celebrated Mass. Moreover, the silver chalice, which served him at that time, was drank from by infirm persons, and they recovered health. ,as Another prized memorial of St. Magnus was the cross, which hung from his neck, while he was a Deacon, and which contained various sacred relics.
sacristy 12'*
which St. used while he Magnus
in the beginning of the eleventh century. autem quatuor, scilicet mdccxl, die S. •'
See in Metropolis Salisburgensis," tome Joannis Baptists? , obtuli Reverendissimo
ii. , p. 246.
"'Schussenried is a town of Wurtemberg,
1,8 The account here inserted had been received from Very Rev. Father Evermod Lorinzer, of the Prsemonstratensian Order, by Father Suysken.
119 A copper-plate engraving, given by the Bollandists, at p. 726, represents this artistic staff.
120 The Annalist of the Praemonstratensian Order states, that this particle had been in- serted by Didacus Strobele, who was elected
Abbotat in '*
Sorethan, 17 19 : Prodigissum
DD. nostro praesuli Constantino Muller partem de cuculla S. Magni, quam ab ejusdem monasterii abbate, cum sigili abba- tialis impressione obtinui supplex. "
in the circle of the Danube, near the source
of the river Schussen, which flows into Lake
Constance. It had formerly an Imperial
Benedictine Abbey, founded in 1183, audit
was suppresed in 1803. See " Gazetteer of and usually with the result of a happy the World," vol. xii. , pp. 488, 489.
^. Magni abbatis baculum preciosis acclusit
hpsanis," tomus ii. , col. 833.
121 This was called in "
Latin, prodigiosus
baculus S. Magni," because of the many miracles attributed to its use.
'"In a letter to Father Chardon, in 1744,
he writes on this
subject
:
" Ante annos
,23 The lappet of this hood is said to have been applied to the sick, in former ages,
recovery.
"« Although applied to the sick, we have
no account of cures effected through them. They were woven from green silk,
quidem crebrius, quibus aut febris, aut venenum, aut magica maleficentia perniciem conscivcrat : sed et aliis inde hausisse, multoscies remedio
fuit praesenti, qui vertigine rotabantur, dolore dentium cruciabantur, syncopen patiabantur, aut aliis quibusdam a-gritudinibus conflicta- bantur," lib. iii. , cap. 5.
I25FatherBabenstuberadds "
: Illi
workmanship
September 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 63
At Schussenreidt, not only the Pnemonstratensian Fathers, hut the people surrounding their monastery, were accustomed, from times very remote, 136 to celebrate the chief feast of their Patron, St. Magnus, with the obligation of hearing Mass and abstaining from servile works. "7 Even a special Office had been composed for him, the Lessons of which were chiefly taken from his ancient Life. In like manner, the Hymns for the first Vespers of his Festival 128 were Proper; likewise those for Matins"? and Lauds,1? ? as also the Responses for the Nocturns, and the Antiphons for all the Hours. More- over, in the great diocese of Constance, the feast of St. Magnus was celebrated yearly on the 6th of September, while he was venerated and invoked as the Thaumaturgus, and Apostle, as also the Common Father and Auxiliator of all those suffering and in affliction. He is thus numbered among the Sancti Auxiliatores '3 1 of the Germans, and they were so designated and invoked as being their special Patrons before God, either for averting or
^removingcalamities,orforobtainingparticularbenefits. IntheoldMissal'32
of the Diocese of
Mayence,
1 " and in an old Missal1 ? * of '35 in Utrecht,
125 Father Evermod Lorinzer of that Order testifies, that for about two hundred years, in the middle ages, the special Office lor St Magnus was sung on the day of his Festival and during the Octave ; but, after that lapse of time, the practice fell into desuetude, in the year 1632, when the fathers were obliged to fly, and their monas- tery was burned, during the Swedish war, waged by Gustavus Adolphus. See R. de Prade, M L'Histoire de Gustave-Adolphe, dit le Grand," Paris, 1686, 8vo,
,27 On the saint's chief feast, September 6th, a great concourse of people and clergy flocked to the Prsemonstratensian church at Schussenreidt, not only from the neighbour- hood, but also from the churches apart, and
130 The following is the first verse of the Hymn at Lauds" :
" Vos clara laudes resonet Noctis quieto tempore, Magni patris encomiis Miscens devotosjubilos. "
131 In the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury, the Very Rev. Father Abbot Thomas, of the Cistercian Order, wrote a work in Germany, on the Holy Helpers, who were invoked at Lanchem, in the Diocese of Bamberg, under that title. He only names fourteen, from which list St. Magnus is excluded. Nor in the Mass peculiar to their festival is his name to be found.
132 Printed A. D. 1493.
133 In it is a Mass, with the title, De
Quatuordecim Adjutoribus Sanctis, although fifteen names are included in the Collect,
they
formed in The religious procession.
large statue of St. Magnus, adorned wgh
rich vestments, was set up in the middle of
the church, and it was an object of great
popular veneration. A solemn High Mass
was sung by the Abbot, in pontificals, with
his assistant ministers, or by some bishop,
who had been specially invited to officiate.
A select choir was chosen for the occasion,
and usually a distinguished and an eloquent
preacher was selected to eulogise the saint's
merits and virtues. Such devotion extended
thus :
"
Omnipotens ac mitissime Deus, qui
also to those cities, towns and parishes, missions gratiam,petitionis nostra; salutarem
where benefits had been obtained through
the intercession of St. Magnus.
consequamur effectum. Da nobis, Domine, veniam peccatorum, et ipsorum interceden- tibus meritis, ab omnibus adversitatibus libera, et deprecationes nostras benignus exaudi. Per Dominum, &C. In like manner, the name of St. Magnus is to be found in the Missal of the Dominicans
118
The first strophe thus commences :
11
Sydus refulget jam novum, Magni clarum solemniis, Germaniam et Galliam
Novo beat Apostolo. "
129 The Hymn for Matins is taken from that '
A. I).
Printed at Leida, A. I>.
ascribed to Ratpert, as given by Henricus
Canisius in "Antiqux Lectiones," tomos v.
1514.
,35 Among the Masses for averting various
calamities, is one healed, De Ouindecim Auxiliatoribus, and having the name of St.
Magnus included, with a Collect agreeing with that in the previous note. In the Secrets and Postcommunio, the same names occur.
The first verse runs as follows
"
:
Mire cunctorum Dens et Creator, Mitis et fortis solidator orbis, Vota servorum tibi subditorum
Accipe clemens. "
electos sanctos tuos, Georgium, Blasium,
Herasmum, Fantaleonem, Vitum, Christo-
ferum, Dionisium, Ciriacum, Achatium,
Eustachium, Magnum, Egidium, Mar-
garetam, Barbaram, et Katherinam,
specialibus privilegiis decorasti ; quivsumus,
ut omnes, qui in necessitatibus eorurn imploramus auxilium, secundum tuoe pro-
printed I
1550.
164 LIVES Ofi THE IRISH SAINTS. [September 6.
Holland, the name of St. Magnus is found added as a fifteenth '36 to the
fourteen Helpers most generally enumerated. By the German writers,
T J38
Babenstuber 37 and Francis Peter, Canon Regular of St. Augustine, St.
Magnus is called Auxiliator.
Although not mentioned in the Roman Martyrology, yet Notker Bal-
bulus '39 and many German Martyrologists commemorate this saint, at the
September.
"
Sanctus Magnus Algoiorum Apos-
work,
tolus, Germanorum communis Auxiliator. "
Thus, in the
of 140 of Martyrologies Rheinau, Augsburg,
1 -* 1 At the same date, he is noticed by Galesi- nius,I43 and by Bucelin. 144 The Bollandists had in their Library a number of German Diocesan Missals and Breviaries, which proved that veneration for St. Magnus obtained not alone in Suevia, but also in Bavaria, the circle oftheRhine,Franconia,Alsace,andBelgium. Nolessthansixteenofthose Breviaries are named, viz. , Mayence, and its suffragan Sees, Augsburg, Argentinensis, Saltzburg, Constance, Eistad, Spire, Worms ; also Vienna, in Austria, Pataviensis and Ratisbon, in Bavaria ; Wratislaviensis, in Silesia* Minden,inWestphalia,andCologne,ontheRhine. Tothesemaybeadded the two Belgian Breviaries of Tongres and Utrecht. There can hardly be a doubt, but that in other dioceses his cultus had spread, as to him was given the title "Auxiliator Germanise. " Among the Kalendars which Dominicus Geqrgius edited at Rome, in 1745, together with the Martyrology of Ado, two especially note this festival ; one of these called the Kalen- darium Palatino-Vaticanum, prefixed to a Sacramentary of St. Gregory, belonging to the twelfth century ; the other called Kalendariuin Mediola-
"
Sanctus Magnus Confessoris. " Not less frequent are entries in the Additions to Usuard, as Father Soller shows. Father Henry Fitz-simon '45 inscribes St. Magnus or Magdobaldus on his List of the Irish Saints, and ascribes his feast to the 6th of September. At the same date, he is in the Calendar of Conveus, and in that Anonymous
one, published by O'Sullevan Beare. 146
A secondary festival was held on the 22nd of March, which was that for
the Translation of his relics. At Schussenreidt, the same Office, as that on i
6th of
and of Treves,142 he is entered.
nense II. Both, at the present day, enter
136
the 8lh of August prefixes the name of the glorious Mother of God, to the fourteen
but among these, he has not in- eluded the name of Magnus.
In his additions to Usuard, Greven at
church of Treves, or perhaps of Belgium, In it is found, at the viii. Ides of September : "AdFauces, Magniconfessoris. "
" Ad Fauces, sancti Magni
Helpers
137 He thus describes our saint in his
**3 He writes
confessoris : qui sancti Galli discipulos,
;
:
proedicandi
ad pie agendum inflammavit, miraculorum que ac vita: religiose' arte l. uide nobilis in sanctos suinini Pontificis auctoritate ab
138 He writes: " Etiam apud longe (lis-
sitas et exteras nationes S. Magnus honoie,
festoque die solemniter colitur, interque eos
Divos, quos ob speciales quasdam proeroga-
tivas Auxiliatores —
vocamus, prresentissimus
patronus habetur. " "Suevia Ecclesiastica,"
p. 326.
139 He states: " Nativitas sancti Magni
confessoris, discipuli beati Galli, mirabiliset sanctissimi viri.
140 Thus: "VIII. Id. Sept. Natale sancti Magni confess. "
141 Thus, at the same day, that of the monastery of Uldaricus records "Magni conf. "
142 The Martyrology of St. Martin, which
Father Soller places among the Hierony-
mian ones. This he suspects to have been pendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. , cap. x. , xi. , pp. originally compiled for the use of some 48, 51, 55.
divino
munere multorum animos
episcopo Augustano adscriptus est. " '*4 "
lie writes: Decessit, ut annis, sic meritis cumulatissimus, in SUO, quod con- diderat, ad Fauces Fiiessen)
j
sit. " "Martyrologium '"
Benedictinum. "
Julias (vulgo
memoria coenobio tumulatus cujus apud
;
Germanos longe est celeberrima : ita ut propter continua miracula, quae per ejus veneramlas reliquias, tarn in agris, quam in amends et hominibus, passim patrantur, quatuordecim Sanctis, ut vocant Auxilia- TORIBUS, memorabili sane meritorum com- mend—atione, decimus quintoa ipse adjunctus
45See Catalogus Aliquorum Sanctorum Hibcrnia:. "
I46 See" Historic Catholics IbernneCom-
September 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 165
the 6th of September, was recited ; except that in the Lessons of the Second Nocturn, the Sermo Venerabilis Eedae presbyteri in Natali S. Benedicti «4> was substituted, and a few minor changes took place. Nor was this the only honour paid to the memory of St. Magnus, as on every Thursday throughout
the year, not engaged for a double Office, a special Antiphon '*8 and x
Prayer «9 were prescribed, at Lauds and Vespers. Moreover, on every Tuesday, on which there was no proper Office, the Missa Major or Con- ventual Mass was sung in honour of St. Magnus, excepting the common suffrage occurring in Lauds and Vespers. '5°
The Acts of many early saints, and those even of gr? at celebrity in the Church, are occasionally obscure and defective, so that a critical writer must hesitate to assert as facts, what may prove at best to be only probable or possible conjectures. However, nearly all ancient history or biography, even that of the Pagan writers most admired, abounds in fallacies, with the flow of eloquent narrative. Nor would we be willing to lose the trend of those facts preserved, even though wreathed with their unsubstantial, imaginary and florid adornments. We have still more than enough of interesting material interwoven with the acts of St. Magnus, to illustrate the manners of his own and of subsequent ages ; nor should we permit to remain uncared for and unnoticed those traditionary and ancient documents, that have come down to our time, and that serve to perpetuate his virtues and miracles.
Article III. —St. Mac Cuilinn, Maculinus or Maculind, Bishop and Patron of Lusk, County of Dublin. [Fifth or Sixth Century. '] Much confusion exists in the documents and traditions which remain, regarding the time when the patron saint of Lusk flourished, and as to how far we can have reliance on his rather modernly transcribed Proper Office, still
in the
which it had been transcribed seems to have been lost.
.
»
"
Audiensa Domino Petrus," &c.
l & Antiphon : " Laudemus virum glorio- sum et parentem nostrum sanctum Magnum in generatione sua, cujus intuentes exitum, conversationis ejus sequamur vestigia. " V. Justum deduxit Dominus per vias rectas.
ft. Etostenditi11i regnumDei.
'*9
Oratio: Sancti Magni confessoris tui, quaesumus, Domine, mentis adjuvemur, ut quod possibilitas nostra non obtinet, ejus nobis intercessione donetur. Per Christum, &c.
147
viueret : in opes alere : pauperes recreare : nudis vestimenta triburere : esurientcs pascere : peregrinis et viduis, caeteraque
opera miserecordiaelargiresolebat.
Deuiantes etiam et a via veritatis declinantes ; adspem fiduciae verbo suae predicationis reuocabat. In Dei templo quasi Lucifer aparuit Macu- linus : Quicquid enim erat in eo Dei virtute atque potentia mirabiliter refulcit. In Dei seruitio in ecclesia iugiter existebat, turn stando, turn orando : turn legendo : turn genua flectendo : continue laborando cor- pusque suum vigiliis jeiuniisque macerabat.
of Dublin. 1 Trinity College,
The from original
preserved
deemed it well to present the Latin Version,2 now published, as we believe,
Library
150 Father Evermod Lorinzer, who sup-
plied the foregoing information to the Insistent itaque diuino operi pietatis ;
Hollandists, adds:
"
Et haec de cultu S.
monasteria etoratoria iugiter con-
Patroni nostri tarn—
antiquo quam
moderno. "
ecclesias : tinueque
operatus
quas praesens libellus nequeat continere :
nee hominum linguae enucleare valeant. Tu autem Domine miserere nostri.
Lfctio 2DA
Igitur de beatissimi militis Maculini vita admirabili, pauca reuocemusad memoriam : qui multo iam tempore priusquam terris
Article hi.
classed E. , Tab. 3, No. 8, fol. 128, 129.
"On the margin of this transcript are the words Vita S. Macttlini, in a different hand- writing. The following are the Lessons :
Lectio ima.
eum Deus
In the
Manuscript
Tantas
per
est
vitutes,
Venerabilem hujus diei sanctissimam
memoriam recolentes quo gloriosus Christi
pontifex Maculinus, deposito carnis onere, innotuit virtutibus admirandum claruit. ad gaudia transmigravit aeterna. Qui dum Rex etenim quidem nobilissimus (brumen-
fabricando.
Quid plura
referam ?
Wherefore, we have
i66 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September6.
for the first time, in the phraseology, and order here given ; but, lengthening the contraction of words, which occasionally occurs, and including within brackets those words which appear to be meaningless, or which probably are mistakes of the scribe. This narrative of the saint's Acts is
ill-digested and frequently obscure, even were the statements it contains to be relied
cium ? ) ortus ad Loth similitudem : ebrietate quamdiu ipse psalmos didicit
repletus : nefando scelere sororem premendo violauit : quae mox coYicepit in vtero : ac duos genuit filios. Ille autem sceleris iniquitatem celare est conatus ; inuentis illis
nequitiis grauioribus : unum ex illis dimisit : alium mater arripuit : quem nutriuit ac
baptizarifecit, Maculinumquevocauit: qui
literarum studhs est traditus: cepit moribus
florere, virtutibus et miraculis corruscare.
Quotidie sedulo insistendo orationibus et
vigiliis : corpusque suum jeiunijs macerando
non desistit. Sicque fama sancti perad-
jacentes circumquaque prouincias aduolavit.
Quid plura. Defuncto illius regionis episcopo
Maculinus ab omni clero et populo elegitur,
et infula pontificali sublimatur. Tu autem altera linguae, facundiam loquendi recepit. Domine miserere nostri. In eodem temporis momento, ejusdem regis
Lectio 3TRA. coniugem diaboli sagitta subito percussam ; idem gloriosus Dei famulus reuocauit ad In diebus illis erat quidam rex Rath- vitam. Eodem quoque die Rex nu-moratus ; lunensis Tugerna nomine, qui quidam Maculinum quum postulando de miraculis
virgunculam habuit forma et vultu pul-
cherimam : a quo etiam edictum exiit : ut
nemo thorum illius virgunculae violaret.
Vnus autem ex ejus militibus Amargen flores extulisset, maturos fructus protulit : nomine : optimus scil : faber ferrarius illam sinus vernali autumnalibus
eiusque tempore
cognouit. Quae mox concepit in vtero. Rex repleuerat nucibus. Tunc Rex glorihcauit
autem cum illam partui proximam, inter-
rogans earn de quo concepisset. At ilia statim confessa est. Tunc Rex valde iratus :
iussit alligari ambos, et in ignem mitti nudos. Sed qui cuncta condidit, hoc non
beatum Maculinum, eique partem terra. ' sine donauit.
Lectio 51A.
Post haec venerabilis Christi miles Macu-
protulit loquelam : claraque voce dixit ad
regem. <> Rex impie, imo crude] issime vnum congregati, ad sancti Maculini pedes
tyranne ! nequissimum sacrilegumque scelus
cateruatim prouoluu'ntur; qui omnes quasi ex vno ore dixerunt, Salua nos : at) ilia etiam
Nam ut dicam
fueris si hoc non consummaueris. Ac si
manifestius diceret, cur illos qui me feceruut ad vitam, detrudis ad mortem ? Rex autem perteritus, valdeque ad ineffabilem admi- ratus allocutionem, ait : quid sibi vult hoc novumprodigium? TuncRexjussitfabrum
ferrarium, cum virguncula praegnante, honorabiliter custodiri. Quae peperit (ilium
agere disponis.
acceptabilior
die euacuata est terra, nee
Sancti Maculini meritis liberati sunt.
Lectio 6ta.
Post haec autem et alia plura miracula quae
beatus Maculinus operatus est. reliquit Al-
baniam, et ut proposuit Roman adiit.
Gregorius autem tunc Apostolicam rexerat arcem. Cum vir Dei Maculinus peruenit
ad illam, qui cum episcopali diademate sanctum sublimate cepisset Maculinum, flamma cadens de ccelo intersit. Tunc
Gregorius de coelis per angelum admonitus, sancto ait Maculino, Reuertcre ad prouinciam tuam, et in loco quo reserecturus fueris ; a summo pontifici pontificali infula sublima-
sanctitate et vita laudabilem : in bonis operibusvigere, etin Dei ecclesia mirabiliter florere.
Lectio 4TA.
Post haec autem praedicti tresviri, beatum puerum ad fines Laginencium perduxerunt. Vbi inter ccetera,quae ibidem gessit miracula;
cepit
tamdiu Ac si de intus crebris ardentibus flammis videretur : nee non et de foris ardoribus solis feruen- tibus, eodem omnino habitu permanere fecit. Post ea vero monasterium illis
domum nine vestitam respexerit.
signauit : ibi aliquando tempore permansit. Denique Laginencium relinquendo partes Carbrinum adiuit, sancti Gregorii disci-
pulum, per cuius magisterium, evangelium et epistolam legit. Eodem tempore Rex quidam Acchoreus nomine sanctum Macu- linum rogauit vt orbatum luminibus filium,
necnon et filiam, videlicet, linguae ex parte curaret. Protinus autem orante beato Maculino : vnus illorum munera luminum,
amplius faciendis rogauit. Erat enim vemale
et illius dicto nonduin finito
sub cuius vmbra positi fuerant, priusquam
tempus,
:
c:>rylus
Fulmina enim et toniirui linus Albaniam petiit ; ibique aliquanti
permisit.
pluuiaeque de coelis, precibus sancti Macu- lini facta sunt in ilia hora. Elementa inter
se (muicein? ) repugnauere : atque edax ignis
temporis spatio permanens innurneris coruscauit miraculis. Eratautemeotempore
qusedara immeusee magnitudinis, ac tantae ferocitatis bestia, quod omnes Albaniensium
parcendo lignis, vim negauit naturae.
Interea infans de matris vtero nouam fines inuasit, ac totam prouinciam pene
euacuauit. Tunc omnes Albannnses se in
:
vsquam comparuit
September 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 167
upon ; whil—e the persons and places named appear not in Irish history or topography at least in their present form. Vague tradition and popular legends seem to have furnished, to a considerable extent, the materials for
nor have we any notification of special Matins, 1 Hours, Vespers, or Psalms, Hymns, Antiphons, Versicles or Responses, as
St. Maculin's Office
;
beris. Angelico igitur ductu peruenit beatus Maculinus ad prouinciam de Durpconylc, opidum videlicet in quo protinussanctificauit monasterium. Deindeagitatus motu angelico; Albamense monasterium fundauit ; in quo tanto tempore permansit. Duodecim monas- teria fundauit, ac pro suae claritatis et nomine opere, suis proximis ea concessit.
Lectio 7ma.
Orante autem Maculino cum turba justo- rum in eadem ciuitate dominus noster
Si adhuc multum mouet me, quum praepo- situm siue idoneum non habeo praesulem :
cui non dedignatus semper subditus atque subiectus essem. Tunc Eolangus dixit, hodie te summo committam pontifici : cui cuncti prepositi famulantur. Sicut enim a nullo mortalium nisi a semetipso te pontificio concessit sublimari : ita et nemini nisi semetipso et vult famulari. In eodem ergo
Cstu& cum
angelorum agmine aparuit eis : cui Eolangus dixit. Deus meus suscipe a me hunc hominem iustum. Qui continuo manum illius beati Maculini contingens dexteram; eleuauit eum in sublime. Tunc Eolangus quasi
penitus perteritus dixit. O rex gloriose et qui dominaris in ccelis, adhuc modicum con- cedere digeris ilium in terris. Tunc dominus remisit ilium, et ab ilia die nemo praepositus nimiam claritatem illius manus cernere potuit ; atque circa illam manicam conti- nebat accinctam. Hinc igitur completum est, quod Veritas protulit, qui se humiliat exaltabitur. Quantocunque enim Maculinus se humilem atque subiectum vniuersis
tanto ilium excelsum ac praeferrebat, per-
latum cunctis Deus dirigebat. Nemo enim multitudinem virtutum eius enarrare potuit, nisi qui cuncta creauit. Nam si temporum curricula non preterirent : signa autem eius superessent.
Lectio 9NA.
Cum dies exitus eius imminent monas-
terium de Luske adiit, quo sanctus Kuadam
Ihesus Ctus
angelicis
ministrantibus choris;
ilium pontificali diademate, ut beatus
Gregorius iam ante predixerat infulauit :
atque in eius officio fons olei largus de terra emanauit. Huius autem ordine pontificii
completo ; coemeterii spatium angeli sig- nauerunt. Tunc ergo sermo exiit, quod si
quis fidelium poenitentiam agentium in illo quiesceret coemeterio inferni cruciatibus caret et in futuro. Corpore autem ipsius Maculini magistri primus in illo dormire sacro-sancto promeruit coemeterio. Post h;vc autem gloriose ac honorabiliter beautus Maculinus ia sua ciuitate sanctorum nimia multitudine illius ministerio prout doctrinae salutaris norma fuerant informati permansit. Ac inde semetipsos cum suis monasteriis in aeternum obtulerunt. Sanctus autem Macu- linus desiderans subesse plusquam praeesse, venerabilem virum Eolangum adiit, quern presulem elegit. Igitur ad praefati senioris beato Maculino cum suis praeueniente monasterium, idem lcetus ineorum aduentu
;
quos antea ad suum hospitium venturos esse
pramidit in spiritu. Sic rem, tantamque cur Maculinus aduenisset ille cognosceret ; ministris suis ait. Hospites sancti bene reficiantur, et in crastina die vnde venerunt reuertantur. Ego enim non alloquar illos, donee post septem dies ad Luske peruenero villam. Ministris haec verba magistri Maculino narrantibus; ipse crastina die sicut venerabilis senex praecepit ad suam perrexit villam,
Lectio 8va.
Igitur cum septem transacti essent dies,
beatus Eolangus sicut praedixit Luske
peruenit villam : ac protinus ad sancti pedes
Maculini pronus procidit, dicens, Tibi,
Deoque offero memetipsum, meumque monasterium. Tunc Maculinus amare flevit,
et dixit, non hoc ego proposui, sic ut semper tibi subditus essem. Ille respondit, sic et ego a te inde remunerari expostulo ; vt in loco vno simul resurrectionem expectemus. Cui Maculinus dixit, hoc tibi Deus prsestabit.
antea
eisdem benedixit, acceptis tarn salutiferis
pacis muneribus. corporalem deposuit glebam; «edempromeruitadiresupernam. Tunc plurimus Hiberniencium chorus col- lectus est ad Maculini corpus sanctissimum
sepeliendum : qui angelorum noua cantica modulantium permixtus erat exercitus, quorumnumerumnoueratDeus. Solautem
illius diei protelando spatium, perquindenos noncognouitoccasum. Posteaverosanctum
illud corpusculum, cum hymnis et canticis ad Luske translatum erat villam ; quo cum honore maximo in sarculo seruatur dignis- simo : quo etiam plures sanctorum Hiber- niencium venerandae requiescunt reliquiae ; ab ipso Maculino priraum congregate, nec- non hactenus venerabili successore postremo recollects. Quam igitur veneranda est fratres charissimi ista dies per orbem ; qua post victoria felix Maculinus concendit ad arcem ? Et quamuis mirabilis fulgebat in terris, nunc multo mirabilus resplendit in coelis. Nos autem ut sufficiant timeamus
loco dominus noster I ;
discipulos
reliquit. Ibique postquam
1 68 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [September 6.
connected with the Proper Lessons. A brief allusion to the particulars furnished can only be introduced in the following account, as collated or contrasted with notices found" in our Martyrologies and Annals. That the
present saint lived at an ancient period does not a<Jmit of dispute ; but,
whether it dates back to the fifth century is very questionable. In the
Feilire of St. /Engus. 3 St. MacCuilinn of Lusk is commemorated, at the 6th
ofSeptember. Also,theMartyrologyofTallagh*registersafestival,atthe
6th of September, in honour of MacCuilinn, Bishop of Luscca, now Lusk, in
the of Dublin. 5 This County
6 This
was also written
bishop, styled St. Macculindus, is commemorated at this date by Rev. Alban
;
amabilis. Hie erat stabilis, et constans in fide: ut Petrus doctor egregius, et vas elec- tionis ut Paulus : virilis ut Andreas, diuina gratia plenus ut Joannes. Quid moror in verbis ? nam omnibus Apostolis erat con- similis ; per omnia illorum stquens vestigia, Qui felici commercio, caduca pro seternis. peritura commutauit mansuris. Vbi inter
—" Transactions of the
place
Lusga.
holy
Butler. ? Bishop Forbes has a notice of him, likewise, in his u Kalendars of Scottish Saints. " 8 By some writers, this saint is called the son of Cathmoga, and by others of Cathbad. But, MacCuilind or MacCullin is the name by which he is generally known, and hence we are allowed to assume, that he was son to a man named Cullin. We are well inclined to disbelieve the story of his descent horn an unknown King, and the circumstance related regarding his origin, as found in the Second Lesson of his Office. The O'Clerys state, that Cuinnigh was his first name,s> and that he belonged to the race of Tadhg, son to Cian, son of Oihll Olum. 10 This of course over- leaps his genealogy for many generations. Under the head of Lusca, Duald Mac Firbis enters Mac Cuilinn, of Lusca. 11 We are that Luachan
bishop told,
Moc Cuilinn was his proper name, and that Cainnigh, Caindigh, or Caindedh, washisfirstname. ThisSaintislikewisecalledCinneadh,Cuindedhe,Cuin- nigh and Cainnech. According to the Office, from his mother when baptised he received the name of Maculinus, and he was carefully instructed in a course of studies. As he advanced in years, his morals were exemplary, and
his religious dispositions were manifested in prayer, vigils, and fasting. Even while a youth, miracles are attributed to him, and his fame for sanctity was
very generally diffused. We can well afford to pass over what is vague and obscure in his office, with the names of unknown persons and reported
verba quibus sancti Presulis congrua laude Stokes
enerramus gesta. Erat enim aspectu pair of champions divides (this clay), the angelicus : in sermone verax et nitidus : in feast of Sciath here we have : Colomb of iudicio iustus. Nulli odibilis cunctis fair Ross Glandae. "
cetcmos Dei sanctos et electos, in regno Ordnance Survey Records, p. 131.
patris sui fulget tanquam sol, et tanquam scintilla in arundineto discurret : nationes judicabit : et cum vero justitia? sole electos
"
^ See Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,
and other Principal Saints," vol ix. , Sep- tember 6.
8 See
9 See " of edited Martyrology Donegal,"
by Rev. Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 236, 237.
10
Oilill Olum, King of Munster, died a. D 234, according to Dr. O'Donovan's " Annals of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp.
112,113.
" See "Transactions of the Royal Irish
cum
sancto viuit in secula saeculorum.
et Amen.
congregabit. Qui
patre,
3 In the Leabh—ar Breac copy, we find the
p. 379.
following rami
LufCAi la TTUcc Cuilirro Cam -oecheng Acr\enx)Ai peil ScecVu func Im-oi Colum rtuirf 51L 5I&1V041.
:
spiritu
Academy," Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. , Thus translated into English by Dr. Whitley part i. , pp. 120, 131.
:
" With Mac Cuilinn of Lusk a fair
Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. , part i. On the calendar of
Oengus, p. cxxxvi.
4
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxxiii.
5 In that copy found in the Book of Lein- ster, we read at this date, ttlACCulin-o epf
LurcA.
*
See "Extracts for the County of Dublin. "
September 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 169
acts, that have no authentication in other historic documents. We may accept, however, the traditions regarding his charity and kindness towards the poor and strangers ; that his preaching effected the conversion of many sinners and led them on to the path of salvation ; that he was assiduous in study, and in his devotions. It is stated, moreover, that he laboured much, in founding churches and monasteries ; and that he left the province of
Leinster,
to become a
disciple
of a St.
Gregory,
12 who dwelt in the district
J
written Carbrinum 3 and under such direction, he read the Gospel and
;
Epistle, by which we are probably to understand a curriculum of theology and of Sacred Scripture. While there, it is related, that he procured the restoration of sight to the blind son, and the use of speech to the dumb
of a certain named Acchoreus. 1 * Other miracles of his daughter* Regulus,
are also reported.
"3 See " Miracula," auctore P. Ludovico Babenstuber, Benedictino Fttalensi, cap. vii.
the §
him as a reward. This is regarded by experienced a crushing defeat at Nordling. e,
and their disaster was attributed to the but it is held, that to commemorate that saint,whosechapelhadbeensosacrilegiously
legend, a chapel was there dedicated to St. violated during the previous year.
L
Father Suysken as only a popular tradition ;
"
4 In th—e year 1634, and o—n the 6th of
September
St.
Magnus' day
Beringerua
and
position,
[62 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[September 6.
its containing Irish manuscripts,"* and referable to a very remote date. Other places had erections in honour ot our saint : viz. , at Chiebach or
Kuebach,
in Suevia, a chapel ; church.
in
there was a of nunnery
Bavaria,
at Steinbach,
monastery.
"5 Among these was an old codex Vita S. Brigidae, attributed to St. Ultan of Ard- braccan as author. He lived in the fifth and sixth centuries. See his Acts, in the present volume, at the 4th of September, Art. i. , and especially n. 50, ibid.
116 Hundius thinks this had been founded
at Fiiessen were to be seen the
6
pious virgins ;"
and at Huglfingan, in Bavaria, there was a parochial
Besides the staff of Columban, which had fallen successively into the
keeping of St. Gall and St. Magnus, and which had been preserved in later
ages at Fiissen ; the Canons Regular or Praemonstratensian Fathers, at IX
Schussenreidt, 7 procured a portion of that relic, which was kept in their convent,butatwhattimeisnowunknown. Thiswasinsertedinabeautiful and an artistic staff, fashioned of silver, adorned with gold — and
1'8
various precious stones. It was four feet, four inches, in length
according
to the local measurement—
from the surmounted with a top,
figure
of St.
Magnus, at the end. "9 On the breast of the silver figure is a cavity, con-
taining a particle of the cambula, and it has a crystal covering, about two
inches in length, by one inch in breadth. 120 As in the case of the staff at
Fiissen, this artificial staff is held in great veneration by the people at
Sorethan, who carry it about the fields and gardens, for the destruction of
121
noxious insects.
the Rev. Cistercian Abbot, Stephen Jung, ol the Salemitan monastery, in Suevia, and Vicar General of his Order, when on a visitation of his houses, he came to Fiissen. He then had a staff, fashioned like that at Fiissen, and in it he enclosed the relic presented to him. This staff was used, likewise, to drive away worms and other noxions insects from lands subject to the
Another small particle of the staff had been obtained by
132 In the maniple,
Cistercian
ornamented cowl,123 stole and
celebrated Mass. Moreover, the silver chalice, which served him at that time, was drank from by infirm persons, and they recovered health. ,as Another prized memorial of St. Magnus was the cross, which hung from his neck, while he was a Deacon, and which contained various sacred relics.
sacristy 12'*
which St. used while he Magnus
in the beginning of the eleventh century. autem quatuor, scilicet mdccxl, die S. •'
See in Metropolis Salisburgensis," tome Joannis Baptists? , obtuli Reverendissimo
ii. , p. 246.
"'Schussenried is a town of Wurtemberg,
1,8 The account here inserted had been received from Very Rev. Father Evermod Lorinzer, of the Prsemonstratensian Order, by Father Suysken.
119 A copper-plate engraving, given by the Bollandists, at p. 726, represents this artistic staff.
120 The Annalist of the Praemonstratensian Order states, that this particle had been in- serted by Didacus Strobele, who was elected
Abbotat in '*
Sorethan, 17 19 : Prodigissum
DD. nostro praesuli Constantino Muller partem de cuculla S. Magni, quam ab ejusdem monasterii abbate, cum sigili abba- tialis impressione obtinui supplex. "
in the circle of the Danube, near the source
of the river Schussen, which flows into Lake
Constance. It had formerly an Imperial
Benedictine Abbey, founded in 1183, audit
was suppresed in 1803. See " Gazetteer of and usually with the result of a happy the World," vol. xii. , pp. 488, 489.
^. Magni abbatis baculum preciosis acclusit
hpsanis," tomus ii. , col. 833.
121 This was called in "
Latin, prodigiosus
baculus S. Magni," because of the many miracles attributed to its use.
'"In a letter to Father Chardon, in 1744,
he writes on this
subject
:
" Ante annos
,23 The lappet of this hood is said to have been applied to the sick, in former ages,
recovery.
"« Although applied to the sick, we have
no account of cures effected through them. They were woven from green silk,
quidem crebrius, quibus aut febris, aut venenum, aut magica maleficentia perniciem conscivcrat : sed et aliis inde hausisse, multoscies remedio
fuit praesenti, qui vertigine rotabantur, dolore dentium cruciabantur, syncopen patiabantur, aut aliis quibusdam a-gritudinibus conflicta- bantur," lib. iii. , cap. 5.
I25FatherBabenstuberadds "
: Illi
workmanship
September 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 63
At Schussenreidt, not only the Pnemonstratensian Fathers, hut the people surrounding their monastery, were accustomed, from times very remote, 136 to celebrate the chief feast of their Patron, St. Magnus, with the obligation of hearing Mass and abstaining from servile works. "7 Even a special Office had been composed for him, the Lessons of which were chiefly taken from his ancient Life. In like manner, the Hymns for the first Vespers of his Festival 128 were Proper; likewise those for Matins"? and Lauds,1? ? as also the Responses for the Nocturns, and the Antiphons for all the Hours. More- over, in the great diocese of Constance, the feast of St. Magnus was celebrated yearly on the 6th of September, while he was venerated and invoked as the Thaumaturgus, and Apostle, as also the Common Father and Auxiliator of all those suffering and in affliction. He is thus numbered among the Sancti Auxiliatores '3 1 of the Germans, and they were so designated and invoked as being their special Patrons before God, either for averting or
^removingcalamities,orforobtainingparticularbenefits. IntheoldMissal'32
of the Diocese of
Mayence,
1 " and in an old Missal1 ? * of '35 in Utrecht,
125 Father Evermod Lorinzer of that Order testifies, that for about two hundred years, in the middle ages, the special Office lor St Magnus was sung on the day of his Festival and during the Octave ; but, after that lapse of time, the practice fell into desuetude, in the year 1632, when the fathers were obliged to fly, and their monas- tery was burned, during the Swedish war, waged by Gustavus Adolphus. See R. de Prade, M L'Histoire de Gustave-Adolphe, dit le Grand," Paris, 1686, 8vo,
,27 On the saint's chief feast, September 6th, a great concourse of people and clergy flocked to the Prsemonstratensian church at Schussenreidt, not only from the neighbour- hood, but also from the churches apart, and
130 The following is the first verse of the Hymn at Lauds" :
" Vos clara laudes resonet Noctis quieto tempore, Magni patris encomiis Miscens devotosjubilos. "
131 In the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury, the Very Rev. Father Abbot Thomas, of the Cistercian Order, wrote a work in Germany, on the Holy Helpers, who were invoked at Lanchem, in the Diocese of Bamberg, under that title. He only names fourteen, from which list St. Magnus is excluded. Nor in the Mass peculiar to their festival is his name to be found.
132 Printed A. D. 1493.
133 In it is a Mass, with the title, De
Quatuordecim Adjutoribus Sanctis, although fifteen names are included in the Collect,
they
formed in The religious procession.
large statue of St. Magnus, adorned wgh
rich vestments, was set up in the middle of
the church, and it was an object of great
popular veneration. A solemn High Mass
was sung by the Abbot, in pontificals, with
his assistant ministers, or by some bishop,
who had been specially invited to officiate.
A select choir was chosen for the occasion,
and usually a distinguished and an eloquent
preacher was selected to eulogise the saint's
merits and virtues. Such devotion extended
thus :
"
Omnipotens ac mitissime Deus, qui
also to those cities, towns and parishes, missions gratiam,petitionis nostra; salutarem
where benefits had been obtained through
the intercession of St. Magnus.
consequamur effectum. Da nobis, Domine, veniam peccatorum, et ipsorum interceden- tibus meritis, ab omnibus adversitatibus libera, et deprecationes nostras benignus exaudi. Per Dominum, &C. In like manner, the name of St. Magnus is to be found in the Missal of the Dominicans
118
The first strophe thus commences :
11
Sydus refulget jam novum, Magni clarum solemniis, Germaniam et Galliam
Novo beat Apostolo. "
129 The Hymn for Matins is taken from that '
A. I).
Printed at Leida, A. I>.
ascribed to Ratpert, as given by Henricus
Canisius in "Antiqux Lectiones," tomos v.
1514.
,35 Among the Masses for averting various
calamities, is one healed, De Ouindecim Auxiliatoribus, and having the name of St.
Magnus included, with a Collect agreeing with that in the previous note. In the Secrets and Postcommunio, the same names occur.
The first verse runs as follows
"
:
Mire cunctorum Dens et Creator, Mitis et fortis solidator orbis, Vota servorum tibi subditorum
Accipe clemens. "
electos sanctos tuos, Georgium, Blasium,
Herasmum, Fantaleonem, Vitum, Christo-
ferum, Dionisium, Ciriacum, Achatium,
Eustachium, Magnum, Egidium, Mar-
garetam, Barbaram, et Katherinam,
specialibus privilegiis decorasti ; quivsumus,
ut omnes, qui in necessitatibus eorurn imploramus auxilium, secundum tuoe pro-
printed I
1550.
164 LIVES Ofi THE IRISH SAINTS. [September 6.
Holland, the name of St. Magnus is found added as a fifteenth '36 to the
fourteen Helpers most generally enumerated. By the German writers,
T J38
Babenstuber 37 and Francis Peter, Canon Regular of St. Augustine, St.
Magnus is called Auxiliator.
Although not mentioned in the Roman Martyrology, yet Notker Bal-
bulus '39 and many German Martyrologists commemorate this saint, at the
September.
"
Sanctus Magnus Algoiorum Apos-
work,
tolus, Germanorum communis Auxiliator. "
Thus, in the
of 140 of Martyrologies Rheinau, Augsburg,
1 -* 1 At the same date, he is noticed by Galesi- nius,I43 and by Bucelin. 144 The Bollandists had in their Library a number of German Diocesan Missals and Breviaries, which proved that veneration for St. Magnus obtained not alone in Suevia, but also in Bavaria, the circle oftheRhine,Franconia,Alsace,andBelgium. Nolessthansixteenofthose Breviaries are named, viz. , Mayence, and its suffragan Sees, Augsburg, Argentinensis, Saltzburg, Constance, Eistad, Spire, Worms ; also Vienna, in Austria, Pataviensis and Ratisbon, in Bavaria ; Wratislaviensis, in Silesia* Minden,inWestphalia,andCologne,ontheRhine. Tothesemaybeadded the two Belgian Breviaries of Tongres and Utrecht. There can hardly be a doubt, but that in other dioceses his cultus had spread, as to him was given the title "Auxiliator Germanise. " Among the Kalendars which Dominicus Geqrgius edited at Rome, in 1745, together with the Martyrology of Ado, two especially note this festival ; one of these called the Kalen- darium Palatino-Vaticanum, prefixed to a Sacramentary of St. Gregory, belonging to the twelfth century ; the other called Kalendariuin Mediola-
"
Sanctus Magnus Confessoris. " Not less frequent are entries in the Additions to Usuard, as Father Soller shows. Father Henry Fitz-simon '45 inscribes St. Magnus or Magdobaldus on his List of the Irish Saints, and ascribes his feast to the 6th of September. At the same date, he is in the Calendar of Conveus, and in that Anonymous
one, published by O'Sullevan Beare. 146
A secondary festival was held on the 22nd of March, which was that for
the Translation of his relics. At Schussenreidt, the same Office, as that on i
6th of
and of Treves,142 he is entered.
nense II. Both, at the present day, enter
136
the 8lh of August prefixes the name of the glorious Mother of God, to the fourteen
but among these, he has not in- eluded the name of Magnus.
In his additions to Usuard, Greven at
church of Treves, or perhaps of Belgium, In it is found, at the viii. Ides of September : "AdFauces, Magniconfessoris. "
" Ad Fauces, sancti Magni
Helpers
137 He thus describes our saint in his
**3 He writes
confessoris : qui sancti Galli discipulos,
;
:
proedicandi
ad pie agendum inflammavit, miraculorum que ac vita: religiose' arte l. uide nobilis in sanctos suinini Pontificis auctoritate ab
138 He writes: " Etiam apud longe (lis-
sitas et exteras nationes S. Magnus honoie,
festoque die solemniter colitur, interque eos
Divos, quos ob speciales quasdam proeroga-
tivas Auxiliatores —
vocamus, prresentissimus
patronus habetur. " "Suevia Ecclesiastica,"
p. 326.
139 He states: " Nativitas sancti Magni
confessoris, discipuli beati Galli, mirabiliset sanctissimi viri.
140 Thus: "VIII. Id. Sept. Natale sancti Magni confess. "
141 Thus, at the same day, that of the monastery of Uldaricus records "Magni conf. "
142 The Martyrology of St. Martin, which
Father Soller places among the Hierony-
mian ones. This he suspects to have been pendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. , cap. x. , xi. , pp. originally compiled for the use of some 48, 51, 55.
divino
munere multorum animos
episcopo Augustano adscriptus est. " '*4 "
lie writes: Decessit, ut annis, sic meritis cumulatissimus, in SUO, quod con- diderat, ad Fauces Fiiessen)
j
sit. " "Martyrologium '"
Benedictinum. "
Julias (vulgo
memoria coenobio tumulatus cujus apud
;
Germanos longe est celeberrima : ita ut propter continua miracula, quae per ejus veneramlas reliquias, tarn in agris, quam in amends et hominibus, passim patrantur, quatuordecim Sanctis, ut vocant Auxilia- TORIBUS, memorabili sane meritorum com- mend—atione, decimus quintoa ipse adjunctus
45See Catalogus Aliquorum Sanctorum Hibcrnia:. "
I46 See" Historic Catholics IbernneCom-
September 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 165
the 6th of September, was recited ; except that in the Lessons of the Second Nocturn, the Sermo Venerabilis Eedae presbyteri in Natali S. Benedicti «4> was substituted, and a few minor changes took place. Nor was this the only honour paid to the memory of St. Magnus, as on every Thursday throughout
the year, not engaged for a double Office, a special Antiphon '*8 and x
Prayer «9 were prescribed, at Lauds and Vespers. Moreover, on every Tuesday, on which there was no proper Office, the Missa Major or Con- ventual Mass was sung in honour of St. Magnus, excepting the common suffrage occurring in Lauds and Vespers. '5°
The Acts of many early saints, and those even of gr? at celebrity in the Church, are occasionally obscure and defective, so that a critical writer must hesitate to assert as facts, what may prove at best to be only probable or possible conjectures. However, nearly all ancient history or biography, even that of the Pagan writers most admired, abounds in fallacies, with the flow of eloquent narrative. Nor would we be willing to lose the trend of those facts preserved, even though wreathed with their unsubstantial, imaginary and florid adornments. We have still more than enough of interesting material interwoven with the acts of St. Magnus, to illustrate the manners of his own and of subsequent ages ; nor should we permit to remain uncared for and unnoticed those traditionary and ancient documents, that have come down to our time, and that serve to perpetuate his virtues and miracles.
Article III. —St. Mac Cuilinn, Maculinus or Maculind, Bishop and Patron of Lusk, County of Dublin. [Fifth or Sixth Century. '] Much confusion exists in the documents and traditions which remain, regarding the time when the patron saint of Lusk flourished, and as to how far we can have reliance on his rather modernly transcribed Proper Office, still
in the
which it had been transcribed seems to have been lost.
.
»
"
Audiensa Domino Petrus," &c.
l & Antiphon : " Laudemus virum glorio- sum et parentem nostrum sanctum Magnum in generatione sua, cujus intuentes exitum, conversationis ejus sequamur vestigia. " V. Justum deduxit Dominus per vias rectas.
ft. Etostenditi11i regnumDei.
'*9
Oratio: Sancti Magni confessoris tui, quaesumus, Domine, mentis adjuvemur, ut quod possibilitas nostra non obtinet, ejus nobis intercessione donetur. Per Christum, &c.
147
viueret : in opes alere : pauperes recreare : nudis vestimenta triburere : esurientcs pascere : peregrinis et viduis, caeteraque
opera miserecordiaelargiresolebat.
Deuiantes etiam et a via veritatis declinantes ; adspem fiduciae verbo suae predicationis reuocabat. In Dei templo quasi Lucifer aparuit Macu- linus : Quicquid enim erat in eo Dei virtute atque potentia mirabiliter refulcit. In Dei seruitio in ecclesia iugiter existebat, turn stando, turn orando : turn legendo : turn genua flectendo : continue laborando cor- pusque suum vigiliis jeiuniisque macerabat.
of Dublin. 1 Trinity College,
The from original
preserved
deemed it well to present the Latin Version,2 now published, as we believe,
Library
150 Father Evermod Lorinzer, who sup-
plied the foregoing information to the Insistent itaque diuino operi pietatis ;
Hollandists, adds:
"
Et haec de cultu S.
monasteria etoratoria iugiter con-
Patroni nostri tarn—
antiquo quam
moderno. "
ecclesias : tinueque
operatus
quas praesens libellus nequeat continere :
nee hominum linguae enucleare valeant. Tu autem Domine miserere nostri.
Lfctio 2DA
Igitur de beatissimi militis Maculini vita admirabili, pauca reuocemusad memoriam : qui multo iam tempore priusquam terris
Article hi.
classed E. , Tab. 3, No. 8, fol. 128, 129.
"On the margin of this transcript are the words Vita S. Macttlini, in a different hand- writing. The following are the Lessons :
Lectio ima.
eum Deus
In the
Manuscript
Tantas
per
est
vitutes,
Venerabilem hujus diei sanctissimam
memoriam recolentes quo gloriosus Christi
pontifex Maculinus, deposito carnis onere, innotuit virtutibus admirandum claruit. ad gaudia transmigravit aeterna. Qui dum Rex etenim quidem nobilissimus (brumen-
fabricando.
Quid plura
referam ?
Wherefore, we have
i66 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September6.
for the first time, in the phraseology, and order here given ; but, lengthening the contraction of words, which occasionally occurs, and including within brackets those words which appear to be meaningless, or which probably are mistakes of the scribe. This narrative of the saint's Acts is
ill-digested and frequently obscure, even were the statements it contains to be relied
cium ? ) ortus ad Loth similitudem : ebrietate quamdiu ipse psalmos didicit
repletus : nefando scelere sororem premendo violauit : quae mox coYicepit in vtero : ac duos genuit filios. Ille autem sceleris iniquitatem celare est conatus ; inuentis illis
nequitiis grauioribus : unum ex illis dimisit : alium mater arripuit : quem nutriuit ac
baptizarifecit, Maculinumquevocauit: qui
literarum studhs est traditus: cepit moribus
florere, virtutibus et miraculis corruscare.
Quotidie sedulo insistendo orationibus et
vigiliis : corpusque suum jeiunijs macerando
non desistit. Sicque fama sancti perad-
jacentes circumquaque prouincias aduolavit.
Quid plura. Defuncto illius regionis episcopo
Maculinus ab omni clero et populo elegitur,
et infula pontificali sublimatur. Tu autem altera linguae, facundiam loquendi recepit. Domine miserere nostri. In eodem temporis momento, ejusdem regis
Lectio 3TRA. coniugem diaboli sagitta subito percussam ; idem gloriosus Dei famulus reuocauit ad In diebus illis erat quidam rex Rath- vitam. Eodem quoque die Rex nu-moratus ; lunensis Tugerna nomine, qui quidam Maculinum quum postulando de miraculis
virgunculam habuit forma et vultu pul-
cherimam : a quo etiam edictum exiit : ut
nemo thorum illius virgunculae violaret.
Vnus autem ex ejus militibus Amargen flores extulisset, maturos fructus protulit : nomine : optimus scil : faber ferrarius illam sinus vernali autumnalibus
eiusque tempore
cognouit. Quae mox concepit in vtero. Rex repleuerat nucibus. Tunc Rex glorihcauit
autem cum illam partui proximam, inter-
rogans earn de quo concepisset. At ilia statim confessa est. Tunc Rex valde iratus :
iussit alligari ambos, et in ignem mitti nudos. Sed qui cuncta condidit, hoc non
beatum Maculinum, eique partem terra. ' sine donauit.
Lectio 51A.
Post haec venerabilis Christi miles Macu-
protulit loquelam : claraque voce dixit ad
regem. <> Rex impie, imo crude] issime vnum congregati, ad sancti Maculini pedes
tyranne ! nequissimum sacrilegumque scelus
cateruatim prouoluu'ntur; qui omnes quasi ex vno ore dixerunt, Salua nos : at) ilia etiam
Nam ut dicam
fueris si hoc non consummaueris. Ac si
manifestius diceret, cur illos qui me feceruut ad vitam, detrudis ad mortem ? Rex autem perteritus, valdeque ad ineffabilem admi- ratus allocutionem, ait : quid sibi vult hoc novumprodigium? TuncRexjussitfabrum
ferrarium, cum virguncula praegnante, honorabiliter custodiri. Quae peperit (ilium
agere disponis.
acceptabilior
die euacuata est terra, nee
Sancti Maculini meritis liberati sunt.
Lectio 6ta.
Post haec autem et alia plura miracula quae
beatus Maculinus operatus est. reliquit Al-
baniam, et ut proposuit Roman adiit.
Gregorius autem tunc Apostolicam rexerat arcem. Cum vir Dei Maculinus peruenit
ad illam, qui cum episcopali diademate sanctum sublimate cepisset Maculinum, flamma cadens de ccelo intersit. Tunc
Gregorius de coelis per angelum admonitus, sancto ait Maculino, Reuertcre ad prouinciam tuam, et in loco quo reserecturus fueris ; a summo pontifici pontificali infula sublima-
sanctitate et vita laudabilem : in bonis operibusvigere, etin Dei ecclesia mirabiliter florere.
Lectio 4TA.
Post haec autem praedicti tresviri, beatum puerum ad fines Laginencium perduxerunt. Vbi inter ccetera,quae ibidem gessit miracula;
cepit
tamdiu Ac si de intus crebris ardentibus flammis videretur : nee non et de foris ardoribus solis feruen- tibus, eodem omnino habitu permanere fecit. Post ea vero monasterium illis
domum nine vestitam respexerit.
signauit : ibi aliquando tempore permansit. Denique Laginencium relinquendo partes Carbrinum adiuit, sancti Gregorii disci-
pulum, per cuius magisterium, evangelium et epistolam legit. Eodem tempore Rex quidam Acchoreus nomine sanctum Macu- linum rogauit vt orbatum luminibus filium,
necnon et filiam, videlicet, linguae ex parte curaret. Protinus autem orante beato Maculino : vnus illorum munera luminum,
amplius faciendis rogauit. Erat enim vemale
et illius dicto nonduin finito
sub cuius vmbra positi fuerant, priusquam
tempus,
:
c:>rylus
Fulmina enim et toniirui linus Albaniam petiit ; ibique aliquanti
permisit.
pluuiaeque de coelis, precibus sancti Macu- lini facta sunt in ilia hora. Elementa inter
se (muicein? ) repugnauere : atque edax ignis
temporis spatio permanens innurneris coruscauit miraculis. Eratautemeotempore
qusedara immeusee magnitudinis, ac tantae ferocitatis bestia, quod omnes Albaniensium
parcendo lignis, vim negauit naturae.
Interea infans de matris vtero nouam fines inuasit, ac totam prouinciam pene
euacuauit. Tunc omnes Albannnses se in
:
vsquam comparuit
September 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 167
upon ; whil—e the persons and places named appear not in Irish history or topography at least in their present form. Vague tradition and popular legends seem to have furnished, to a considerable extent, the materials for
nor have we any notification of special Matins, 1 Hours, Vespers, or Psalms, Hymns, Antiphons, Versicles or Responses, as
St. Maculin's Office
;
beris. Angelico igitur ductu peruenit beatus Maculinus ad prouinciam de Durpconylc, opidum videlicet in quo protinussanctificauit monasterium. Deindeagitatus motu angelico; Albamense monasterium fundauit ; in quo tanto tempore permansit. Duodecim monas- teria fundauit, ac pro suae claritatis et nomine opere, suis proximis ea concessit.
Lectio 7ma.
Orante autem Maculino cum turba justo- rum in eadem ciuitate dominus noster
Si adhuc multum mouet me, quum praepo- situm siue idoneum non habeo praesulem :
cui non dedignatus semper subditus atque subiectus essem. Tunc Eolangus dixit, hodie te summo committam pontifici : cui cuncti prepositi famulantur. Sicut enim a nullo mortalium nisi a semetipso te pontificio concessit sublimari : ita et nemini nisi semetipso et vult famulari. In eodem ergo
Cstu& cum
angelorum agmine aparuit eis : cui Eolangus dixit. Deus meus suscipe a me hunc hominem iustum. Qui continuo manum illius beati Maculini contingens dexteram; eleuauit eum in sublime. Tunc Eolangus quasi
penitus perteritus dixit. O rex gloriose et qui dominaris in ccelis, adhuc modicum con- cedere digeris ilium in terris. Tunc dominus remisit ilium, et ab ilia die nemo praepositus nimiam claritatem illius manus cernere potuit ; atque circa illam manicam conti- nebat accinctam. Hinc igitur completum est, quod Veritas protulit, qui se humiliat exaltabitur. Quantocunque enim Maculinus se humilem atque subiectum vniuersis
tanto ilium excelsum ac praeferrebat, per-
latum cunctis Deus dirigebat. Nemo enim multitudinem virtutum eius enarrare potuit, nisi qui cuncta creauit. Nam si temporum curricula non preterirent : signa autem eius superessent.
Lectio 9NA.
Cum dies exitus eius imminent monas-
terium de Luske adiit, quo sanctus Kuadam
Ihesus Ctus
angelicis
ministrantibus choris;
ilium pontificali diademate, ut beatus
Gregorius iam ante predixerat infulauit :
atque in eius officio fons olei largus de terra emanauit. Huius autem ordine pontificii
completo ; coemeterii spatium angeli sig- nauerunt. Tunc ergo sermo exiit, quod si
quis fidelium poenitentiam agentium in illo quiesceret coemeterio inferni cruciatibus caret et in futuro. Corpore autem ipsius Maculini magistri primus in illo dormire sacro-sancto promeruit coemeterio. Post h;vc autem gloriose ac honorabiliter beautus Maculinus ia sua ciuitate sanctorum nimia multitudine illius ministerio prout doctrinae salutaris norma fuerant informati permansit. Ac inde semetipsos cum suis monasteriis in aeternum obtulerunt. Sanctus autem Macu- linus desiderans subesse plusquam praeesse, venerabilem virum Eolangum adiit, quern presulem elegit. Igitur ad praefati senioris beato Maculino cum suis praeueniente monasterium, idem lcetus ineorum aduentu
;
quos antea ad suum hospitium venturos esse
pramidit in spiritu. Sic rem, tantamque cur Maculinus aduenisset ille cognosceret ; ministris suis ait. Hospites sancti bene reficiantur, et in crastina die vnde venerunt reuertantur. Ego enim non alloquar illos, donee post septem dies ad Luske peruenero villam. Ministris haec verba magistri Maculino narrantibus; ipse crastina die sicut venerabilis senex praecepit ad suam perrexit villam,
Lectio 8va.
Igitur cum septem transacti essent dies,
beatus Eolangus sicut praedixit Luske
peruenit villam : ac protinus ad sancti pedes
Maculini pronus procidit, dicens, Tibi,
Deoque offero memetipsum, meumque monasterium. Tunc Maculinus amare flevit,
et dixit, non hoc ego proposui, sic ut semper tibi subditus essem. Ille respondit, sic et ego a te inde remunerari expostulo ; vt in loco vno simul resurrectionem expectemus. Cui Maculinus dixit, hoc tibi Deus prsestabit.
antea
eisdem benedixit, acceptis tarn salutiferis
pacis muneribus. corporalem deposuit glebam; «edempromeruitadiresupernam. Tunc plurimus Hiberniencium chorus col- lectus est ad Maculini corpus sanctissimum
sepeliendum : qui angelorum noua cantica modulantium permixtus erat exercitus, quorumnumerumnoueratDeus. Solautem
illius diei protelando spatium, perquindenos noncognouitoccasum. Posteaverosanctum
illud corpusculum, cum hymnis et canticis ad Luske translatum erat villam ; quo cum honore maximo in sarculo seruatur dignis- simo : quo etiam plures sanctorum Hiber- niencium venerandae requiescunt reliquiae ; ab ipso Maculino priraum congregate, nec- non hactenus venerabili successore postremo recollects. Quam igitur veneranda est fratres charissimi ista dies per orbem ; qua post victoria felix Maculinus concendit ad arcem ? Et quamuis mirabilis fulgebat in terris, nunc multo mirabilus resplendit in coelis. Nos autem ut sufficiant timeamus
loco dominus noster I ;
discipulos
reliquit. Ibique postquam
1 68 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [September 6.
connected with the Proper Lessons. A brief allusion to the particulars furnished can only be introduced in the following account, as collated or contrasted with notices found" in our Martyrologies and Annals. That the
present saint lived at an ancient period does not a<Jmit of dispute ; but,
whether it dates back to the fifth century is very questionable. In the
Feilire of St. /Engus. 3 St. MacCuilinn of Lusk is commemorated, at the 6th
ofSeptember. Also,theMartyrologyofTallagh*registersafestival,atthe
6th of September, in honour of MacCuilinn, Bishop of Luscca, now Lusk, in
the of Dublin. 5 This County
6 This
was also written
bishop, styled St. Macculindus, is commemorated at this date by Rev. Alban
;
amabilis. Hie erat stabilis, et constans in fide: ut Petrus doctor egregius, et vas elec- tionis ut Paulus : virilis ut Andreas, diuina gratia plenus ut Joannes. Quid moror in verbis ? nam omnibus Apostolis erat con- similis ; per omnia illorum stquens vestigia, Qui felici commercio, caduca pro seternis. peritura commutauit mansuris. Vbi inter
—" Transactions of the
place
Lusga.
holy
Butler. ? Bishop Forbes has a notice of him, likewise, in his u Kalendars of Scottish Saints. " 8 By some writers, this saint is called the son of Cathmoga, and by others of Cathbad. But, MacCuilind or MacCullin is the name by which he is generally known, and hence we are allowed to assume, that he was son to a man named Cullin. We are well inclined to disbelieve the story of his descent horn an unknown King, and the circumstance related regarding his origin, as found in the Second Lesson of his Office. The O'Clerys state, that Cuinnigh was his first name,s> and that he belonged to the race of Tadhg, son to Cian, son of Oihll Olum. 10 This of course over- leaps his genealogy for many generations. Under the head of Lusca, Duald Mac Firbis enters Mac Cuilinn, of Lusca. 11 We are that Luachan
bishop told,
Moc Cuilinn was his proper name, and that Cainnigh, Caindigh, or Caindedh, washisfirstname. ThisSaintislikewisecalledCinneadh,Cuindedhe,Cuin- nigh and Cainnech. According to the Office, from his mother when baptised he received the name of Maculinus, and he was carefully instructed in a course of studies. As he advanced in years, his morals were exemplary, and
his religious dispositions were manifested in prayer, vigils, and fasting. Even while a youth, miracles are attributed to him, and his fame for sanctity was
very generally diffused. We can well afford to pass over what is vague and obscure in his office, with the names of unknown persons and reported
verba quibus sancti Presulis congrua laude Stokes
enerramus gesta. Erat enim aspectu pair of champions divides (this clay), the angelicus : in sermone verax et nitidus : in feast of Sciath here we have : Colomb of iudicio iustus. Nulli odibilis cunctis fair Ross Glandae. "
cetcmos Dei sanctos et electos, in regno Ordnance Survey Records, p. 131.
patris sui fulget tanquam sol, et tanquam scintilla in arundineto discurret : nationes judicabit : et cum vero justitia? sole electos
"
^ See Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,
and other Principal Saints," vol ix. , Sep- tember 6.
8 See
9 See " of edited Martyrology Donegal,"
by Rev. Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 236, 237.
10
Oilill Olum, King of Munster, died a. D 234, according to Dr. O'Donovan's " Annals of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp.
112,113.
" See "Transactions of the Royal Irish
cum
sancto viuit in secula saeculorum.
et Amen.
congregabit. Qui
patre,
3 In the Leabh—ar Breac copy, we find the
p. 379.
following rami
LufCAi la TTUcc Cuilirro Cam -oecheng Acr\enx)Ai peil ScecVu func Im-oi Colum rtuirf 51L 5I&1V041.
:
spiritu
Academy," Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. , Thus translated into English by Dr. Whitley part i. , pp. 120, 131.
:
" With Mac Cuilinn of Lusk a fair
Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i. , part i. On the calendar of
Oengus, p. cxxxvi.
4
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxxiii.
5 In that copy found in the Book of Lein- ster, we read at this date, ttlACCulin-o epf
LurcA.
*
See "Extracts for the County of Dublin. "
September 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 169
acts, that have no authentication in other historic documents. We may accept, however, the traditions regarding his charity and kindness towards the poor and strangers ; that his preaching effected the conversion of many sinners and led them on to the path of salvation ; that he was assiduous in study, and in his devotions. It is stated, moreover, that he laboured much, in founding churches and monasteries ; and that he left the province of
Leinster,
to become a
disciple
of a St.
Gregory,
12 who dwelt in the district
J
written Carbrinum 3 and under such direction, he read the Gospel and
;
Epistle, by which we are probably to understand a curriculum of theology and of Sacred Scripture. While there, it is related, that he procured the restoration of sight to the blind son, and the use of speech to the dumb
of a certain named Acchoreus. 1 * Other miracles of his daughter* Regulus,
are also reported.
