Then follows, with Preface, Tractatus de
Purgatorio
Sancti Patricii Hibernorum Apostoli, by Henricus
Saltereiensis, xiii.
Saltereiensis, xiii.
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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. D. 1780, i2mo.
See " Le Vie admirable du S. also, grand
published at Avignon, A. D. 1642, at Rouen, A. D. 1701, in 8vo, and at Rouen, without a
Patrice Patriarche d'Hibernie," avec I'His-
toire de son fameux, et tant renonime Pur-
gatoire. Par Perez de Montalvan. Traduit
en Francois, par F. A. S. Chartreux a 4to sm.
Bruxelles, 1638. Bruxelles, a. d. 1640, 3-'7 See his Opuscula adscripta S. i2mo. Another version of this work is to Patricio," already referred to. Londini,
:
be met with " Vita e Purgatorio de S. 1656, i2mo. Also, in " De Prresuiibus
Patricio, Arcebispo, e Primazde Hibernia,"
Escrita no idionia Castelhano pelo doutor
Joam Perez de Montalvam, Natural da Villa
de Madrid, e Notario da Santa Inquifi9a6
de Castella : Exposta no Portuguez pelo
Padre Manoel Caldeir a Offerecida a Glorio-
sissima S. Brisida, Princeza de Nericia,
Viuva de Ulfo, Principe de Nericia por
bento soares. Lisboa Occidental na Officina
de Antonio Pedrozo Galrao, M. DCC. Xxxvii.
Com todas as licen^as necessarias, i8mo.
Besides the Dedication and Preface, with sections, and 84 paragraphs ; the Confes- an Index, this little work has Nine sions of St. Patrick, in 5 chapters, and in 24 Chapters, in 137 pages. paragraphs ; an epistle of the Saint to
in 8vo.
34* See " Teatro delle glorie e Purgatorio
date,
de viventi del gran Patriarca ed Apostolo dell' Ibernia S. Patricio," Bologna, 1660,
"
Hibemise Commentarius, a prima Gentis HibernicK ad Fidem Christianam Conver-
sione, ad nostra usque Tempora," pp. I, 2, Dublinii, 1665, fol.
3''^ See "Annales Ecclesite Anglo-
Saxonicse," Leodii. , A. D. 1663, fol.
3't9 See "Acta Sanctoram," tomus ii. , Martii xvii. De S. Patricio Episcopo Apos- tolo et Primate Hibernise, A. D. 1668, pp.
517 to 592.
35° There is a previous commentary, in 11
43° LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March 17.
series of dissertations35° and documents,35i serving to set forth the chief knownincidentsofSt. Patrick'shistory. AccountsofourApostlehavebeen
pubHshed, hkewise, by Richai;d Archdekin,352 in I,atin, and by Levin,353 in Low Dutch, by the Benedictine Father S. Cressy,354 and by the learned Dr. WilliamCave. 3S5 AbbateD. GiacomoCertanihaswrittenandpubhsheda largeItalianLifeofoursaint. 35^ Itaboundsverymuch,inanaccountofhis miracles, from which the writer draws devout and mystic reflections. The first edition of Louis Moreri's357 great Historical Dictionary358 appeared, at Lyons, a. d. 1674, in folio, and it contains an account of St. Patrick. 3S9 We
" The of the Life and Death of St. Patricke, delightful History
find, also,
Champion of Ireland. " 360 ^p^is ig ^ book we have not seen, nor can we believe, from the strange title, that it has any historic vahie. The Abbe Claude Fleurys^^ has only a few general remarks, about St. Patrick and his Irish mission,362 in his General History of the Church. 3^3 In addition,
"
Adrien Baillet,3f4 has a special Life of our. saint.
morte, e miracoli del S. vescovo et apost. dell' Ibernia
Patricio," 365 appeared in the Italian language. Likewise, the learned Breton Benedictine, Dom Guy Alexis Lobineau,3^6 in his hagiographical work,3^?
***
His authorities are all to be found, in Col-
published, at Bologna, a. d. 1686.
357 He was born in 1643, and he died at
Paris, in 1680.
35* Several other editions were issued,
afterwards, and this work was translated
into German, Italian, English and Spanish. 359 See " Le Grand Dictionnaire Histori- Patricii Hibernise Apostoli, Epitome. Cum que, ou le Melange Curieux de I'Histoire brevi notitia. Hiberniae, et prophetia S. Sacree et Profane," tome viii. , p. 123. A Paris, 1758 et seq. This is considered to be the best edition of Moreri's celebrated work. 360 Printed at London, 1685, l2mo, black
Caiotic, with an introduction ; the Life of the Saint, by Jocelyn, in 19 chapters, and 171 paragra[)hs, with an Appendix, in 6 sections, and 51 paragraphs.
35' The Bollandists seem to have preferred
"
contained, in Fourteen Books, and it was
the Life of St. Patrick, by Jocelyn, the monk of Furness ; but, why they have selected this, as their Acts for St. Patrick, it is difficult to understand.
de
***
historic van het Vaghevier
letter, with woodcuts,
301 He was boni at Paris in 1640, and he
died on the 14th of July, 1723.
3''^ See "Ilistoire Ecclesiastique," tome
vi. , liv. xxvi. , pp. 151, 152. Nouvelle edition. A Paris, 1758 et seq. i2mo.
The last volume ends, with the year 1414. 3^4 See " Le Vies des Saints," tome iii. , Mars xvii. S. Patrice, sect. i.
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. D. 1780, i2mo.
See " Le Vie admirable du S. also, grand
published at Avignon, A. D. 1642, at Rouen, A. D. 1701, in 8vo, and at Rouen, without a
Patrice Patriarche d'Hibernie," avec I'His-
toire de son fameux, et tant renonime Pur-
gatoire. Par Perez de Montalvan. Traduit
en Francois, par F. A. S. Chartreux a 4to sm.
Bruxelles, 1638. Bruxelles, a. d. 1640, 3-'7 See his Opuscula adscripta S. i2mo. Another version of this work is to Patricio," already referred to. Londini,
:
be met with " Vita e Purgatorio de S. 1656, i2mo. Also, in " De Prresuiibus
Patricio, Arcebispo, e Primazde Hibernia,"
Escrita no idionia Castelhano pelo doutor
Joam Perez de Montalvam, Natural da Villa
de Madrid, e Notario da Santa Inquifi9a6
de Castella : Exposta no Portuguez pelo
Padre Manoel Caldeir a Offerecida a Glorio-
sissima S. Brisida, Princeza de Nericia,
Viuva de Ulfo, Principe de Nericia por
bento soares. Lisboa Occidental na Officina
de Antonio Pedrozo Galrao, M. DCC. Xxxvii.
Com todas as licen^as necessarias, i8mo.
Besides the Dedication and Preface, with sections, and 84 paragraphs ; the Confes- an Index, this little work has Nine sions of St. Patrick, in 5 chapters, and in 24 Chapters, in 137 pages. paragraphs ; an epistle of the Saint to
in 8vo.
34* See " Teatro delle glorie e Purgatorio
date,
de viventi del gran Patriarca ed Apostolo dell' Ibernia S. Patricio," Bologna, 1660,
"
Hibemise Commentarius, a prima Gentis HibernicK ad Fidem Christianam Conver-
sione, ad nostra usque Tempora," pp. I, 2, Dublinii, 1665, fol.
3''^ See "Annales Ecclesite Anglo-
Saxonicse," Leodii. , A. D. 1663, fol.
3't9 See "Acta Sanctoram," tomus ii. , Martii xvii. De S. Patricio Episcopo Apos- tolo et Primate Hibernise, A. D. 1668, pp.
517 to 592.
35° There is a previous commentary, in 11
43° LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March 17.
series of dissertations35° and documents,35i serving to set forth the chief knownincidentsofSt. Patrick'shistory. AccountsofourApostlehavebeen
pubHshed, hkewise, by Richai;d Archdekin,352 in I,atin, and by Levin,353 in Low Dutch, by the Benedictine Father S. Cressy,354 and by the learned Dr. WilliamCave. 3S5 AbbateD. GiacomoCertanihaswrittenandpubhsheda largeItalianLifeofoursaint. 35^ Itaboundsverymuch,inanaccountofhis miracles, from which the writer draws devout and mystic reflections. The first edition of Louis Moreri's357 great Historical Dictionary358 appeared, at Lyons, a. d. 1674, in folio, and it contains an account of St. Patrick. 3S9 We
" The of the Life and Death of St. Patricke, delightful History
find, also,
Champion of Ireland. " 360 ^p^is ig ^ book we have not seen, nor can we believe, from the strange title, that it has any historic vahie. The Abbe Claude Fleurys^^ has only a few general remarks, about St. Patrick and his Irish mission,362 in his General History of the Church. 3^3 In addition,
"
Adrien Baillet,3f4 has a special Life of our. saint.
morte, e miracoli del S. vescovo et apost. dell' Ibernia
Patricio," 365 appeared in the Italian language. Likewise, the learned Breton Benedictine, Dom Guy Alexis Lobineau,3^6 in his hagiographical work,3^?
***
His authorities are all to be found, in Col-
published, at Bologna, a. d. 1686.
357 He was born in 1643, and he died at
Paris, in 1680.
35* Several other editions were issued,
afterwards, and this work was translated
into German, Italian, English and Spanish. 359 See " Le Grand Dictionnaire Histori- Patricii Hibernise Apostoli, Epitome. Cum que, ou le Melange Curieux de I'Histoire brevi notitia. Hiberniae, et prophetia S. Sacree et Profane," tome viii. , p. 123. A Paris, 1758 et seq. This is considered to be the best edition of Moreri's celebrated work. 360 Printed at London, 1685, l2mo, black
Caiotic, with an introduction ; the Life of the Saint, by Jocelyn, in 19 chapters, and 171 paragra[)hs, with an Appendix, in 6 sections, and 51 paragraphs.
35' The Bollandists seem to have preferred
"
contained, in Fourteen Books, and it was
the Life of St. Patrick, by Jocelyn, the monk of Furness ; but, why they have selected this, as their Acts for St. Patrick, it is difficult to understand.
de
***
historic van het Vaghevier
letter, with woodcuts,
301 He was boni at Paris in 1640, and he
died on the 14th of July, 1723.
3''^ See "Ilistoire Ecclesiastique," tome
vi. , liv. xxvi. , pp. 151, 152. Nouvelle edition. A Paris, 1758 et seq. i2mo.
The last volume ends, with the year 1414. 3^4 See " Le Vies des Saints," tome iii. , Mars xvii. S. Patrice, sect. i.
