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All who heard this shed tears in abundance.
Nevertheless, when informed, that Columbkille had appointed St.
Baithan* as his successor, Columb Crag asked Fintan what he then desired to do.
The latter replied, that he should still persist in his purpose of going to Iona to place himself under the rule of that pious and wise man Baithen as his Abbot.
The Church of Columb Crag was at Enach, in the
northern part of Ireland, at this time, when he was regarded as a venerable oldman. Astowhetherhehadbeenasuperiorofmonkswehavenoreco—rd
has allusion been made to him in the Life
century. Already
of St. Columkille. 2 The parentage of this St. Columb—surnamed Crag is unknown ; but by Colgan he has been considered identical with a very wise and venerable man, who was the friend of St. Fintan Munnu,3 in the youngeryearsofthelatter,andprobablyalsoaspiritualdirector. However this may be, when Fintan Munnu desired to take a voyage from Derry to Iona, in order to visit St. Columba, he sought the advice of Columb Crag, who then resided at Eanach,* and northwards from Derry. By our saint, Fintan was confirmed in that purpose, in the earlier part of June, a. d. 597.
left. About two miles to the north-east of
Derry,
this church of — Enagh
between the two small Loughs of Eastern and Western Enagh was
situated in the townland of 6 of Clondermot, and
present Templetown, parish
barony of Tirkeeran, County of Londonderry. ? There is a cemetery
the remains of an ecclesiastical 8 The ruins containing interesting building.
of this church measure ninety-one by twenty-one feet, with a transept on the south twenty-three feet square. Here the O'Cahans had their chief residence,* and from them the whole tract from the Foyle to the Bann got
I.
Article —' See an account of him in
at that date, an account of him is
in the Sixth Volume of this work, Art. iii.
6 It is shown on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of London- derry," Sheet 14.
7 See Acts of Archbishop Colton, in his "Metropolitan Visitation of the Diocese of Derry, a. d. mcccxcvii. " Edited by Dr. Reeves, n. (6), p. 28.
*In former times, it was a ohapel of Clondermot in the corps of Derry Deanery
Rev. Dr. Reeves' Adamnan's
Life of St.
Columba," lib. i. , cap. 2, pp. 18 to 23, with
accompanying notes.
a
See the Sixth Volume of this work, at
June 9th, Art. i. Life of St. Columkille,chap. xvii.
3 His festival occurs on the 2 1 st of October, at which date some notices of him may be found.
4 It was near a castle, belonging to the
O'Cahan family. See Colgan's "Trias and Diocese.
Thaumaturga. " Quarta Vita S. Columbae,
lib. i. , cap. ii. , n. 22, p. 393.
s His feast is held on the 9th of June, and
'In Speed's Map of Ulster it is called Anoghe and placed on the west edge of the lake. Mercator and Bleau call it Anagh.
"
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469
the name of 0'Kane's
country.
10 Their castle was situated on an island
in 11 The two small Lough Enagh.
of 1* lie between the Enagh
Loughs
mouth of the Foyle and Faughan Rivers, and near the western bank of the
latter stream, which has a romantic course in its rise from the Eagle's Nest
rocks,^ at the base of Sawel mountain, on the boundary of Tyrone County. At present, there are no ruins or any traditions about St. Columb Crag, at
1
Templetown. * There are few townland denomi—nations more numerous
in Ireland than those known as Anna, or Annagh the modern equivalent
Enach Lough, County Londonderry-
x
for Enach. The compounds of this form are still more numerous. s It
therefore would not be easy of accomplishment to identify this exact locality, but that Colgan gives us a further clue, by calling the present Saint Columba Cragius, superior of Enagh, or the church of Cluainenaich, near Derry, in
10 In the middle ages, the O'Kanes were called Chiefs of Kienachta and Creeve.
11 In 1555, this castle was destroyed by Calvach O'Donnell, as related in Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals of the Four Masters," vol. v. , pp. 1540, 1 541, and n. (h), ibid. It was afterwards re-edified. In 1591, Tyrone and the present County ot Londonderry had been converted into shire ground by Queen Elizabeth. In 1603, an Inquisition held at Anagh, this very place, found that O'Kane had endowed the church and its herenach in perpetuity, with " 2 quarteria terrse omnis generis proxime dictse ecclesise adjacentia. "
by the Rev. William O'Doherty, C. C. ,of St Columb's Church, Derry. It has been drawn on the wood and engraved by Gregor Grey.
13 " Several of the lateral glens in the up-
land part of its course have much romance
of character, and a large proportion of the low country which it washes is amongst the finest in the county. Large tracts of its vale are owned, and have been considerably improved, by the London Incorporated Companies. "—" Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland," vol. ii. , p. 197-
x< Statement of Rev. William O'Doherty,
in a letter to the writer, dated Derry, May
6th, 1899.
i s See " General Alphabetical Index to
the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland," pp. 17 to 22.
12 The
accompanying
illustration of
Lough
Enagh is from a photograph, representing one of its best views, and kindly furnished
47© LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September22.
Ulster. 16 For this statement, too, he cites the authority of Adamnan. ^ St. Columb Crag survived St. Columbkille, but whether or not he lived into the seventh century is unknown. In the Martyrology of Marianus O'Gorraan, at the 22nd of September, there is a festival for Colomb, vehement, delightful (? ) as the Calendarist pleases to style him l8 while the scholion
;
x
observes he was a priest from Enach. 9 According to the Martyrology of
Donegal,20 Colum, Priest of Enach, was venerated at the 22nd of September. In the year 1197, this church of Cluain-i Eanach was plundered by Rostel Pyton, a partisan of John De Courcy and the English of Ulidia, during a
21
Article II. —St. Colman, Son of Cathbhadh, of Midhe-iseal. The anxious endeavours and desires of prudent parents should be directed to train their children, and make them walk in the paths of virtue. If such care were always taken, the world would rejoice in the example of saints.
1
At the 22nd of September, the Martyrology of Tallagh records a festival to
honour Colman, son of Cathbhadh, of Midisiul. The O'Clerys state, that Aighlenn, daughter of Lenin, was his mother. That his parents had well fulfilledtheirdutiestowardstheirsonseemstoadmitoflittledoubt. With the other saints venerated on this day, Marianus O'Gorman calls on godly, pure-coloured Colman, son of Cathbad, to help us. * The commentator adds, that he belonged to Midhisiul, interpreted Lower Meath. s At the same date, the Martyrology of Donegal* has an entry of Colman, son of Cathbhadh, from Mide isiul.
Article III. —St. Barrfhinn, said to have been a son of Ernin.
1
In the published Martyrology of Tallagh, a festival for Barrfin is entered at
the 22nd day of September, Nearly the same record is in that copy con- tained in the Book of Leinster. 2 On Little Island, on the River Suir, County of Waterford, a hermitage or monastery is said to have been founded in the sixth century by a St. Bairfionn, a disciple of St. Comgall. 3 However, we cannot state, that he is identical with the present holy man. The Martyr- ology of Marianus O'Gorman calls the saint here entered Barrfind mor, or "great Barrfind," while a commentator on that work states, he was mac Ernin, or u a son of Ernin. "4 A festival in honour of Barrlhinn, son of Ernin, is found recorded in the Martyrology of Donegal,* at this date.
predatory excursion.
16 See "Trias
pendix ad Acta S. Columbae, cap. x. , p. 489.
17 See Vita S. Columbse, lib. i. , cap. lxiv. , and n. 22, ibid. , p. 373.
:
18Hiswordsare "Columdiancomhaig. "
—Dr. Whitley Stokes'" Felire Hui Gor- main," p. 182.
2 Thus run the lines — Colman diada dathglan,
19 Thus 183.
"——
As edited by Rev. Dr.
ii.
sect,—
History, i. , pp. 22, 23.
part 3, p. 348.
20
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
"Thus :bArvtMnx>.
3
Article ii.
*
* See Dr.
:
Sacarl 6 Enach. " Ibid. , p.
Article hi. Kelly, p. xxxiv.
•
Thaumaturga," Quarta Ap-
:
252, 253.
21 See " Memoir of the City and North
Western Liberties of Londonderry," part
See "Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland " for Quarter ending 30th September, 1897. Fifth Series, vol. iii. ,
Stokes' " Felire Hui
Whitley Gormain," pp. 182, 183.
s Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 252,253.
Edited
In the Irish copy of the
Kelly, p. xxxiv.
Book of Leinster we read CoLniAn tYlac
CAch1 TYlroiput.
by
Rev. Dr.
— Mac Cat [h] bad diar cobair. "
Dr. Whitley Stokes' Felire ITui Gormain," p. 182.
3Seeibid,andnotes,pp,182,183.
4 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
254, 255.
September 22. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 47:
Article IV. —St. Aedh, or Aidus, Son of Senach. In the 1
Martyrology of Tallaght, at the 22nd of September, the name Aedh, mac Senaigh, is set down as having been venerated. In that copy found
in the Book of he is called Aed mac Leinster,
Senaigh,
mac Ernin. 3 With
a eulogy he is entered, at this same date, in the Martyrology of Marianus
O'Gorman. 3 Colgan alludes, likewise, to this Aidus, son of Senach. * The
O'Clerys state, that he was one of the twos saints, who went with Moling of
Luachair,
6 toaskforaremissionoftheBorumhatributeontheLeinstermen
from Fionuachta, King of Erin. Forannan was the second saint, and
Colman, of Cluain Credhaii, was another of the two. ? So runs the
Calendarist's statement ; yet, it must be acknowledged, there is much
ambiguity in it. 8 He is described more fully than by the earlier Calendarists
in the Martyrology of Donegal,9 at this same date, as Aedh, son of Senach.
In the Manuscript copy of the Calendar which belonged to the Irish
Ordnance Survey Office, the name of Aodh mac Seanaig occurs at the 22nd
10
ArticleV. —MartyrdomofSt. MauriceandhisCompanions.
In
the Feilire of St yEngus, the Martyrdom of St. Maurice and Companions is
set at the 22nd of 1 A comment is in which down, day September. postfixed,*
it is stated, that they underwent martyrdom at the hands of the Emperor Maximiantothenumberof12,600. Thisappears,however,tobeanexaggera- tion of the number of those slain, according to the most reliable ancient accounts. Under the Emperor Diocletian,3 who had been invested by his army with the Roman purple a. d. 284, Maximian had been created Caesar, and to him was assigned the care and defence of —the West. * While engaged on an expedition to Gaul, the Thebean Legion so called because it had been chiefly recruited in Thebais or Upper Egypt
of September.
—was under the command of Saint Maurice, and composed almost exclusively of zealous Christians. When they had marched to Octodurum, then a considerable city on the
Article iv. — z Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxxiv.
a Thus : Aer> mAC Sen-Aijh mac eftnn.
:
3Thus "AedminogmacSenaig,"which
"
n See p. 80.
Article v. —' In the " Leabhar Breac " copy we read :
ttAncAteo tnwtiic '. . „„,,,. *\
V°* "°lb TMtlb -°eAC
It is thus translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes :
is rendered by Dr. Whitley Stokes,
gentle
4 See « Acta Sanctorum Hiberni*," xxxi. Januarii. Vita S. Moedoci. Appendix, cap. i. , p. 221.
5 A note by Drs. Todd and Reeves, says
: at this word Two "
"
Pantaleo, Mauricius, their great hosts,
"Carva
in the manuscript, but over it is written
cpef (three) to reconcile it with the sequel. " Then we are referred to the 7th of October, at p. 269, in the work which they have jointly edited.
'See his Life, at the 17th June, in the Sixth Volume of this work, Art. i.
Irish Manuscript Series," vol. i. , part i. On the Calendar of Oengus, pp. cxxxviii, cxxxix.
2"
At the words fUug occ. . i. dochuatar
amart—rai lamaxim imper . i. dc. ar dib m. dec. " Ibid. , p. cxlvi.
3 See an account of him in the " Dic- tionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology," edited by William Smith,
LL. D. , vol. 1. , pp. ion to 1014.
4 See a full account of him in Muratori's
"Annali d'ltalia dal Principio dell* Era
Volgare sino all' Anno 1750," tomo secondo,
pp. 155 to 213.
s See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. , Sep-
tembris xxii. De SS. Mauritio Primicerio, Exuperio Senatore, Candido Campiductore,
7 Their names do not occur in this Calen- dar, but they are to be found in the tract rrentioned, under Sarnat, at the 3rd of May, p. 118. So says Dr. Reeves, in a note at this
passage, supra.
8 See Dr. O'Donovan's note on Moling,
in the "Annals of the Four Masters," at a. d. 696, vol. 1. , p. 298.
9 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 252, 253.
(two)
"
is the word
—— fairhostofyouths andtwelvethousand. "
whosoever they are, a hundred and eight—
Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,"
472 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September«.
Rhone, Maximian issued an order, that the whole army should join in offering
sacrifice to the gods to procure a successful expedition. Whereupon the Thebean Legion withdrew three leagues distant to a place called Agaunum,
now called St. Maurice, and there they encamped. The Legion consisted
of about six thousand six hundred men well armed, but they had no idea of
resistance by force, when they refused to obey the repeated orders of
Maximiantoreturnandjoininthatpublicsacrificeinthecamp. Theyalso
stated their conscientious motives for not abjuring Christianity. Whereupon,
the enraged tyrant directed the whole army to surround, and cut them to
pieces. The relics of that noble band of martyrs were afterwards collected,
and preserved with great reverence at Agaunum, and numbers of devout
pilgrims flocked thither to invoke their intercession, and to be healed from
various diseases. A monastery was founded at Agaunum, and it was
dedicatedtoSt. Maurice,atanearlyperiod; afterwards,inthesixthcentury,
it was repaired and enlarged by King Sigismund. The history of St. Maurice and of the Thebean Legion has been learnedly and judiciously
investigated in the great collection of the Bollandists,5 by Father John Cleo or Cle, S. J. He gives a Previous Commentary6 to their Passion, as written inanEpistle7ofSt. Eucherius,8BishopofLyons; asalsoanaccountoftheir
martyrdom, taken from a Manuscript* belonging to the Church of St. Maximinus of Treves, and collated with other copies ; while these are
10
followed by a long digression on the posthumous honour paid to the
memory of those holy martyrs in France and in different other countries. To this there are additions in an Appendix," by the same editor. Likewise
12 The
Article VI. —St. Hygbald, Abbot. On this day of September, the
commemorates St. 1 He was an Abbot in the English Martyrology Hygbald.
province of Lindsey. The Venerable Bede calls him a most holy and most
is this festival commemorated Marianus by
at this
feast of St. Maurice and his Companions is entered in the Calendar of the Chain Book, belonging to the Dublin Corporation, at the x. of the October Kalendas (September 22nd), with the additional observation, that they had an Office comprising Nine Lessons. ^ Their festivals are commemorated in
nearly all the national calendars at this same date.
continent or mortified man. 9 He also of St. speaks
as
visited St. Egberts in Ireland. He held a conference with St. Egbert
Victore Milite Veterano, Innocentio, Vitale, aliisque Legionis Thebseae Militibus Mar-
"
In the following lines :
Maurice sunna seisiur Sesca se cet curad,
ar se milibh molaid.
tyribus," pp. , 308 to 403.
6 In thirteen sections, containing
two
hundred and four paragraphs.
* Comprising twelve paragraphs, with
explanatory notes. 8Hisfestivaloccursonthe16thofNo-
vember.
9 It is given in two chapters, containing
seventeen paragraphs, with illustrative notes.
10 This embraces twenty-two sections,
containing two hundred and sixty para-
Thus translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes : "PraiseyeMauriciushere,withsixthousan—d
six hundred and sixty-six champions. "
"
Felire Hui Goimain," pp. 182, 183.
I3 See John T. Gilbert's "Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of that City,"
graphs.
"Which is headed, Ad Gloriam
" Britannia Sancta," part ii. , pp. 139, 140.
2 See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
Anglorum,"lib. iv. , cap. 3.
3 See his Life at the 24th of April, in the
Fourth Volume of this work, Art. i.
posthu- mam S. Mauritii et Sociorum Thebseorum Martyrum ; and this dissertation is com- prised in fifteen sections of one hundred and
twenty-nine paragraphs.
O'Gorman,
day.
vol. i. , p. 215- — Article VI.
'
See Bishop Challoner's
Hygbald
having
September 22. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 473
concerning St. Chad. * We can give no further particulars, regarding that holy man, who is venerated on this day.
Article VII. —St. Lolan, Bishop and Confessor, of Kincardine,
date, the Breviary, Calendar and Martyrology of Aberdeen record the festival of St. Lolan, Bishop and Confessor. The latter states, that he lived at Kyncardin near Stirling, where he was also buried, and that as during life he walked in the paths of virtue and shunned vice, so was he celebrated in heavenly glory for the greatness of his miracles. Little or nothing seems to be known about him, in early Scottish authors. 3 The exact time when he flourished has also divided the opinion of modern writers. The legend of this saint is a strange one ;* nor does it accord with any degree of probability. The Bollandist editor of Lolan's Acts, treats of his Lessons in the Aberdeen Breviary as abounding in silly fables,s which he had rather were expunged
him in
Scotland. Much uncertainty prevails regarding this holy man. At this 12
from that than work,
6 to the
According Martyrology
repeated by
of Aberdeen, he was buried at Kincardine, near Stirling. ? Were we to
receive the account therein contained, Lolanus was a nephew of St. Servanus, born in Galilee of Caanan, whence he came to Rome, and there he was appointed claviger or key-bearer of the Roman Church. When he left Rome —it must be assumed—on his mission, Lolan came to a place called by the common people Planum. Then follows an incredible legend. Camerarius,8 who styles St. Lolanus a bishop and confessor, also states, that he had great authority and favour under Duncan, King of Scotland, whom by his prayers and counsels he aided on the occasion of a Danish invasion by sea and land. The Danes were routed partly at Kinghorn, and partly at Culross. 9 In
AdamKing'sKalendar,atthisdate,heisthuscommemorated "S. Lolane,
:
bishop and confess. In Scotlande vnder king dunkane. "10 Also, at the
11 At this Camerarius has no entry of his feast, which he defers, however, to the 24th
4 He was bishop of Lichfield. See notices entry at the 22nd of September, he states : of him at the 2nd of March, in the Third " Nihil monstri de hoc Sancto confictum
22nd of he is recorded September,
by
Thomas
Dempster.
day,
Volumeofthiswor—k,Art. i.
l
Article vii. See Bishop Forbes'
" Kalendars of Scottish Saints. " " Lolani
epi ix 1. ," Kalendarium Breviarii Aber-
donensis, p. 121.
'The Martyrology of Aberdeen says at
reperio; neeullumvidipraeterrecentiores, inter se satis bene Concordes. "
4See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of
Scottish Saints," pp. 378, 379.
s See "Breviarium Aberdonense," Pars
Estiva, fol. cxiii.
6 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. ,
the x. Kl\ Octobris. "In Scocia Sancti
Lolani episcopi et confessoris de Kyncardin Septembris xxii. De S. Lolano Episcopo
prope Stirling. " See
of
Society Antiquaries
p. 268.
"
of Scotland, vol.
3
Father Soller applied to Father Nicholas probria deuitare ita celestis glorie signorum
very
ancient
authority
for the cultus
" In Scotia Lolani
print.
Proceedings of the Conf. in Scotia, num. 6, p. 534.
"
? It "ibidem sicut ii. , states, sepultus, qui
presentis vite virtutum tramite studuit ob-
Wemyss, a Scottish Father of the Society magnitudine participem se probatcelebrari. "
of Jesus, to revise and correct what Demp- —"Proceedings
ster and Camerarius had introduced quanes of Scotland," vol. ii.
northern part of Ireland, at this time, when he was regarded as a venerable oldman. Astowhetherhehadbeenasuperiorofmonkswehavenoreco—rd
has allusion been made to him in the Life
century. Already
of St. Columkille. 2 The parentage of this St. Columb—surnamed Crag is unknown ; but by Colgan he has been considered identical with a very wise and venerable man, who was the friend of St. Fintan Munnu,3 in the youngeryearsofthelatter,andprobablyalsoaspiritualdirector. However this may be, when Fintan Munnu desired to take a voyage from Derry to Iona, in order to visit St. Columba, he sought the advice of Columb Crag, who then resided at Eanach,* and northwards from Derry. By our saint, Fintan was confirmed in that purpose, in the earlier part of June, a. d. 597.
left. About two miles to the north-east of
Derry,
this church of — Enagh
between the two small Loughs of Eastern and Western Enagh was
situated in the townland of 6 of Clondermot, and
present Templetown, parish
barony of Tirkeeran, County of Londonderry. ? There is a cemetery
the remains of an ecclesiastical 8 The ruins containing interesting building.
of this church measure ninety-one by twenty-one feet, with a transept on the south twenty-three feet square. Here the O'Cahans had their chief residence,* and from them the whole tract from the Foyle to the Bann got
I.
Article —' See an account of him in
at that date, an account of him is
in the Sixth Volume of this work, Art. iii.
6 It is shown on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of London- derry," Sheet 14.
7 See Acts of Archbishop Colton, in his "Metropolitan Visitation of the Diocese of Derry, a. d. mcccxcvii. " Edited by Dr. Reeves, n. (6), p. 28.
*In former times, it was a ohapel of Clondermot in the corps of Derry Deanery
Rev. Dr. Reeves' Adamnan's
Life of St.
Columba," lib. i. , cap. 2, pp. 18 to 23, with
accompanying notes.
a
See the Sixth Volume of this work, at
June 9th, Art. i. Life of St. Columkille,chap. xvii.
3 His festival occurs on the 2 1 st of October, at which date some notices of him may be found.
4 It was near a castle, belonging to the
O'Cahan family. See Colgan's "Trias and Diocese.
Thaumaturga. " Quarta Vita S. Columbae,
lib. i. , cap. ii. , n. 22, p. 393.
s His feast is held on the 9th of June, and
'In Speed's Map of Ulster it is called Anoghe and placed on the west edge of the lake. Mercator and Bleau call it Anagh.
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the name of 0'Kane's
country.
10 Their castle was situated on an island
in 11 The two small Lough Enagh.
of 1* lie between the Enagh
Loughs
mouth of the Foyle and Faughan Rivers, and near the western bank of the
latter stream, which has a romantic course in its rise from the Eagle's Nest
rocks,^ at the base of Sawel mountain, on the boundary of Tyrone County. At present, there are no ruins or any traditions about St. Columb Crag, at
1
Templetown. * There are few townland denomi—nations more numerous
in Ireland than those known as Anna, or Annagh the modern equivalent
Enach Lough, County Londonderry-
x
for Enach. The compounds of this form are still more numerous. s It
therefore would not be easy of accomplishment to identify this exact locality, but that Colgan gives us a further clue, by calling the present Saint Columba Cragius, superior of Enagh, or the church of Cluainenaich, near Derry, in
10 In the middle ages, the O'Kanes were called Chiefs of Kienachta and Creeve.
11 In 1555, this castle was destroyed by Calvach O'Donnell, as related in Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals of the Four Masters," vol. v. , pp. 1540, 1 541, and n. (h), ibid. It was afterwards re-edified. In 1591, Tyrone and the present County ot Londonderry had been converted into shire ground by Queen Elizabeth. In 1603, an Inquisition held at Anagh, this very place, found that O'Kane had endowed the church and its herenach in perpetuity, with " 2 quarteria terrse omnis generis proxime dictse ecclesise adjacentia. "
by the Rev. William O'Doherty, C. C. ,of St Columb's Church, Derry. It has been drawn on the wood and engraved by Gregor Grey.
13 " Several of the lateral glens in the up-
land part of its course have much romance
of character, and a large proportion of the low country which it washes is amongst the finest in the county. Large tracts of its vale are owned, and have been considerably improved, by the London Incorporated Companies. "—" Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland," vol. ii. , p. 197-
x< Statement of Rev. William O'Doherty,
in a letter to the writer, dated Derry, May
6th, 1899.
i s See " General Alphabetical Index to
the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland," pp. 17 to 22.
12 The
accompanying
illustration of
Lough
Enagh is from a photograph, representing one of its best views, and kindly furnished
47© LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September22.
Ulster. 16 For this statement, too, he cites the authority of Adamnan. ^ St. Columb Crag survived St. Columbkille, but whether or not he lived into the seventh century is unknown. In the Martyrology of Marianus O'Gorraan, at the 22nd of September, there is a festival for Colomb, vehement, delightful (? ) as the Calendarist pleases to style him l8 while the scholion
;
x
observes he was a priest from Enach. 9 According to the Martyrology of
Donegal,20 Colum, Priest of Enach, was venerated at the 22nd of September. In the year 1197, this church of Cluain-i Eanach was plundered by Rostel Pyton, a partisan of John De Courcy and the English of Ulidia, during a
21
Article II. —St. Colman, Son of Cathbhadh, of Midhe-iseal. The anxious endeavours and desires of prudent parents should be directed to train their children, and make them walk in the paths of virtue. If such care were always taken, the world would rejoice in the example of saints.
1
At the 22nd of September, the Martyrology of Tallagh records a festival to
honour Colman, son of Cathbhadh, of Midisiul. The O'Clerys state, that Aighlenn, daughter of Lenin, was his mother. That his parents had well fulfilledtheirdutiestowardstheirsonseemstoadmitoflittledoubt. With the other saints venerated on this day, Marianus O'Gorman calls on godly, pure-coloured Colman, son of Cathbad, to help us. * The commentator adds, that he belonged to Midhisiul, interpreted Lower Meath. s At the same date, the Martyrology of Donegal* has an entry of Colman, son of Cathbhadh, from Mide isiul.
Article III. —St. Barrfhinn, said to have been a son of Ernin.
1
In the published Martyrology of Tallagh, a festival for Barrfin is entered at
the 22nd day of September, Nearly the same record is in that copy con- tained in the Book of Leinster. 2 On Little Island, on the River Suir, County of Waterford, a hermitage or monastery is said to have been founded in the sixth century by a St. Bairfionn, a disciple of St. Comgall. 3 However, we cannot state, that he is identical with the present holy man. The Martyr- ology of Marianus O'Gorman calls the saint here entered Barrfind mor, or "great Barrfind," while a commentator on that work states, he was mac Ernin, or u a son of Ernin. "4 A festival in honour of Barrlhinn, son of Ernin, is found recorded in the Martyrology of Donegal,* at this date.
predatory excursion.
16 See "Trias
pendix ad Acta S. Columbae, cap. x. , p. 489.
17 See Vita S. Columbse, lib. i. , cap. lxiv. , and n. 22, ibid. , p. 373.
:
18Hiswordsare "Columdiancomhaig. "
—Dr. Whitley Stokes'" Felire Hui Gor- main," p. 182.
2 Thus run the lines — Colman diada dathglan,
19 Thus 183.
"——
As edited by Rev. Dr.
ii.
sect,—
History, i. , pp. 22, 23.
part 3, p. 348.
20
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
"Thus :bArvtMnx>.
3
Article ii.
*
* See Dr.
:
Sacarl 6 Enach. " Ibid. , p.
Article hi. Kelly, p. xxxiv.
•
Thaumaturga," Quarta Ap-
:
252, 253.
21 See " Memoir of the City and North
Western Liberties of Londonderry," part
See "Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland " for Quarter ending 30th September, 1897. Fifth Series, vol. iii. ,
Stokes' " Felire Hui
Whitley Gormain," pp. 182, 183.
s Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 252,253.
Edited
In the Irish copy of the
Kelly, p. xxxiv.
Book of Leinster we read CoLniAn tYlac
CAch1 TYlroiput.
by
Rev. Dr.
— Mac Cat [h] bad diar cobair. "
Dr. Whitley Stokes' Felire ITui Gormain," p. 182.
3Seeibid,andnotes,pp,182,183.
4 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
254, 255.
September 22. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 47:
Article IV. —St. Aedh, or Aidus, Son of Senach. In the 1
Martyrology of Tallaght, at the 22nd of September, the name Aedh, mac Senaigh, is set down as having been venerated. In that copy found
in the Book of he is called Aed mac Leinster,
Senaigh,
mac Ernin. 3 With
a eulogy he is entered, at this same date, in the Martyrology of Marianus
O'Gorman. 3 Colgan alludes, likewise, to this Aidus, son of Senach. * The
O'Clerys state, that he was one of the twos saints, who went with Moling of
Luachair,
6 toaskforaremissionoftheBorumhatributeontheLeinstermen
from Fionuachta, King of Erin. Forannan was the second saint, and
Colman, of Cluain Credhaii, was another of the two. ? So runs the
Calendarist's statement ; yet, it must be acknowledged, there is much
ambiguity in it. 8 He is described more fully than by the earlier Calendarists
in the Martyrology of Donegal,9 at this same date, as Aedh, son of Senach.
In the Manuscript copy of the Calendar which belonged to the Irish
Ordnance Survey Office, the name of Aodh mac Seanaig occurs at the 22nd
10
ArticleV. —MartyrdomofSt. MauriceandhisCompanions.
In
the Feilire of St yEngus, the Martyrdom of St. Maurice and Companions is
set at the 22nd of 1 A comment is in which down, day September. postfixed,*
it is stated, that they underwent martyrdom at the hands of the Emperor Maximiantothenumberof12,600. Thisappears,however,tobeanexaggera- tion of the number of those slain, according to the most reliable ancient accounts. Under the Emperor Diocletian,3 who had been invested by his army with the Roman purple a. d. 284, Maximian had been created Caesar, and to him was assigned the care and defence of —the West. * While engaged on an expedition to Gaul, the Thebean Legion so called because it had been chiefly recruited in Thebais or Upper Egypt
of September.
—was under the command of Saint Maurice, and composed almost exclusively of zealous Christians. When they had marched to Octodurum, then a considerable city on the
Article iv. — z Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxxiv.
a Thus : Aer> mAC Sen-Aijh mac eftnn.
:
3Thus "AedminogmacSenaig,"which
"
n See p. 80.
Article v. —' In the " Leabhar Breac " copy we read :
ttAncAteo tnwtiic '. . „„,,,. *\
V°* "°lb TMtlb -°eAC
It is thus translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes :
is rendered by Dr. Whitley Stokes,
gentle
4 See « Acta Sanctorum Hiberni*," xxxi. Januarii. Vita S. Moedoci. Appendix, cap. i. , p. 221.
5 A note by Drs. Todd and Reeves, says
: at this word Two "
"
Pantaleo, Mauricius, their great hosts,
"Carva
in the manuscript, but over it is written
cpef (three) to reconcile it with the sequel. " Then we are referred to the 7th of October, at p. 269, in the work which they have jointly edited.
'See his Life, at the 17th June, in the Sixth Volume of this work, Art. i.
Irish Manuscript Series," vol. i. , part i. On the Calendar of Oengus, pp. cxxxviii, cxxxix.
2"
At the words fUug occ. . i. dochuatar
amart—rai lamaxim imper . i. dc. ar dib m. dec. " Ibid. , p. cxlvi.
3 See an account of him in the " Dic- tionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology," edited by William Smith,
LL. D. , vol. 1. , pp. ion to 1014.
4 See a full account of him in Muratori's
"Annali d'ltalia dal Principio dell* Era
Volgare sino all' Anno 1750," tomo secondo,
pp. 155 to 213.
s See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. , Sep-
tembris xxii. De SS. Mauritio Primicerio, Exuperio Senatore, Candido Campiductore,
7 Their names do not occur in this Calen- dar, but they are to be found in the tract rrentioned, under Sarnat, at the 3rd of May, p. 118. So says Dr. Reeves, in a note at this
passage, supra.
8 See Dr. O'Donovan's note on Moling,
in the "Annals of the Four Masters," at a. d. 696, vol. 1. , p. 298.
9 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 252, 253.
(two)
"
is the word
—— fairhostofyouths andtwelvethousand. "
whosoever they are, a hundred and eight—
Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,"
472 LIVESOFTHEIRISHSAINTS. [September«.
Rhone, Maximian issued an order, that the whole army should join in offering
sacrifice to the gods to procure a successful expedition. Whereupon the Thebean Legion withdrew three leagues distant to a place called Agaunum,
now called St. Maurice, and there they encamped. The Legion consisted
of about six thousand six hundred men well armed, but they had no idea of
resistance by force, when they refused to obey the repeated orders of
Maximiantoreturnandjoininthatpublicsacrificeinthecamp. Theyalso
stated their conscientious motives for not abjuring Christianity. Whereupon,
the enraged tyrant directed the whole army to surround, and cut them to
pieces. The relics of that noble band of martyrs were afterwards collected,
and preserved with great reverence at Agaunum, and numbers of devout
pilgrims flocked thither to invoke their intercession, and to be healed from
various diseases. A monastery was founded at Agaunum, and it was
dedicatedtoSt. Maurice,atanearlyperiod; afterwards,inthesixthcentury,
it was repaired and enlarged by King Sigismund. The history of St. Maurice and of the Thebean Legion has been learnedly and judiciously
investigated in the great collection of the Bollandists,5 by Father John Cleo or Cle, S. J. He gives a Previous Commentary6 to their Passion, as written inanEpistle7ofSt. Eucherius,8BishopofLyons; asalsoanaccountoftheir
martyrdom, taken from a Manuscript* belonging to the Church of St. Maximinus of Treves, and collated with other copies ; while these are
10
followed by a long digression on the posthumous honour paid to the
memory of those holy martyrs in France and in different other countries. To this there are additions in an Appendix," by the same editor. Likewise
12 The
Article VI. —St. Hygbald, Abbot. On this day of September, the
commemorates St. 1 He was an Abbot in the English Martyrology Hygbald.
province of Lindsey. The Venerable Bede calls him a most holy and most
is this festival commemorated Marianus by
at this
feast of St. Maurice and his Companions is entered in the Calendar of the Chain Book, belonging to the Dublin Corporation, at the x. of the October Kalendas (September 22nd), with the additional observation, that they had an Office comprising Nine Lessons. ^ Their festivals are commemorated in
nearly all the national calendars at this same date.
continent or mortified man. 9 He also of St. speaks
as
visited St. Egberts in Ireland. He held a conference with St. Egbert
Victore Milite Veterano, Innocentio, Vitale, aliisque Legionis Thebseae Militibus Mar-
"
In the following lines :
Maurice sunna seisiur Sesca se cet curad,
ar se milibh molaid.
tyribus," pp. , 308 to 403.
6 In thirteen sections, containing
two
hundred and four paragraphs.
* Comprising twelve paragraphs, with
explanatory notes. 8Hisfestivaloccursonthe16thofNo-
vember.
9 It is given in two chapters, containing
seventeen paragraphs, with illustrative notes.
10 This embraces twenty-two sections,
containing two hundred and sixty para-
Thus translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes : "PraiseyeMauriciushere,withsixthousan—d
six hundred and sixty-six champions. "
"
Felire Hui Goimain," pp. 182, 183.
I3 See John T. Gilbert's "Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of that City,"
graphs.
"Which is headed, Ad Gloriam
" Britannia Sancta," part ii. , pp. 139, 140.
2 See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
Anglorum,"lib. iv. , cap. 3.
3 See his Life at the 24th of April, in the
Fourth Volume of this work, Art. i.
posthu- mam S. Mauritii et Sociorum Thebseorum Martyrum ; and this dissertation is com- prised in fifteen sections of one hundred and
twenty-nine paragraphs.
O'Gorman,
day.
vol. i. , p. 215- — Article VI.
'
See Bishop Challoner's
Hygbald
having
September 22. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 473
concerning St. Chad. * We can give no further particulars, regarding that holy man, who is venerated on this day.
Article VII. —St. Lolan, Bishop and Confessor, of Kincardine,
date, the Breviary, Calendar and Martyrology of Aberdeen record the festival of St. Lolan, Bishop and Confessor. The latter states, that he lived at Kyncardin near Stirling, where he was also buried, and that as during life he walked in the paths of virtue and shunned vice, so was he celebrated in heavenly glory for the greatness of his miracles. Little or nothing seems to be known about him, in early Scottish authors. 3 The exact time when he flourished has also divided the opinion of modern writers. The legend of this saint is a strange one ;* nor does it accord with any degree of probability. The Bollandist editor of Lolan's Acts, treats of his Lessons in the Aberdeen Breviary as abounding in silly fables,s which he had rather were expunged
him in
Scotland. Much uncertainty prevails regarding this holy man. At this 12
from that than work,
6 to the
According Martyrology
repeated by
of Aberdeen, he was buried at Kincardine, near Stirling. ? Were we to
receive the account therein contained, Lolanus was a nephew of St. Servanus, born in Galilee of Caanan, whence he came to Rome, and there he was appointed claviger or key-bearer of the Roman Church. When he left Rome —it must be assumed—on his mission, Lolan came to a place called by the common people Planum. Then follows an incredible legend. Camerarius,8 who styles St. Lolanus a bishop and confessor, also states, that he had great authority and favour under Duncan, King of Scotland, whom by his prayers and counsels he aided on the occasion of a Danish invasion by sea and land. The Danes were routed partly at Kinghorn, and partly at Culross. 9 In
AdamKing'sKalendar,atthisdate,heisthuscommemorated "S. Lolane,
:
bishop and confess. In Scotlande vnder king dunkane. "10 Also, at the
11 At this Camerarius has no entry of his feast, which he defers, however, to the 24th
4 He was bishop of Lichfield. See notices entry at the 22nd of September, he states : of him at the 2nd of March, in the Third " Nihil monstri de hoc Sancto confictum
22nd of he is recorded September,
by
Thomas
Dempster.
day,
Volumeofthiswor—k,Art. i.
l
Article vii. See Bishop Forbes'
" Kalendars of Scottish Saints. " " Lolani
epi ix 1. ," Kalendarium Breviarii Aber-
donensis, p. 121.
'The Martyrology of Aberdeen says at
reperio; neeullumvidipraeterrecentiores, inter se satis bene Concordes. "
4See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of
Scottish Saints," pp. 378, 379.
s See "Breviarium Aberdonense," Pars
Estiva, fol. cxiii.
6 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. ,
the x. Kl\ Octobris. "In Scocia Sancti
Lolani episcopi et confessoris de Kyncardin Septembris xxii. De S. Lolano Episcopo
prope Stirling. " See
of
Society Antiquaries
p. 268.
"
of Scotland, vol.
3
Father Soller applied to Father Nicholas probria deuitare ita celestis glorie signorum
very
ancient
authority
for the cultus
" In Scotia Lolani
print.
Proceedings of the Conf. in Scotia, num. 6, p. 534.
"
? It "ibidem sicut ii. , states, sepultus, qui
presentis vite virtutum tramite studuit ob-
Wemyss, a Scottish Father of the Society magnitudine participem se probatcelebrari. "
of Jesus, to revise and correct what Demp- —"Proceedings
ster and Camerarius had introduced quanes of Scotland," vol. ii.
