No More Learning

" Ibid. , p. exxxv.
4 In a Martyrology, to which the name of
St. Jerome is prefixed, and which DAchery declares to be very ancient, this feast has
been assigned to the 30th of August, in these words, "Et alibi, natalis Sanctorum Non-
Augustinus, episcopus Anglorum habita synodo cum Britorum et Scotorum episcopis, quia sacerdotes et monachos invenit adver- saries sequitatis, quos voluit habere socios praedicationis, terruit e—os vaticinio futurae super eos calamitatis. " "Annales Monas-
gentorum Martyrum, qui
pa=si
8 See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. , Au- gusti xxix. De SS. Nongentis Martyribus, ex Martyrologiis Hieronymianis, p. 513.
9 See "The Miscellaneous Works of
pp. 172 to 179.
10
With these were associated Scots, like-
4 i6 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [August 29.
andWestSaxons; hevainlyendeavouredtopersuadethem,thattheyshould observe Easter after the Roman usage, and abandon their own traditions, as also he wished them to join with him in missionary enterprise among the
Saxons. They refused these proposals. Whereupon, St. Augustine declared, in case the Britons would not preach the way of life to the English nation, that at the hands of the Saxons they should themselves suffer death. This conference was held about the year 603 ; and that prophecy seemed
11 tobefulfilledin613,whenthewarlikeKingofNorthumbria,Ethelfrid, raised
a large army, and marched at their head against the Britons or Welsh, towards
the of 12called the nowChester. At city Carlegion, by English Legacestir,
*4
If then they cry to their God against us, although they do not bear arms, yet in truth they fight against us, because they oppose us by their prayers. " He then ordered them to be attacked first. Brocmail and his soldiers, left to defend them, sought safety for themselves in flight, leaving the monks unarmed and exposed to the swords of their enemies. About twelve hundred of those who came to pray are said to have been pitilessly slain, and only fifty of the number escaped the swords of the conqueror. Ethelfrid also destroyed the rest of
their
army, yet
was taken, and thence marching forward, Bangor Iscoed was utterly demolished. The scattered ruins demonstrated to subsequent generations
16
the extent of that celebrated monastery.
This place is said to have been occupied by the Romans, at an early
date, and it is also uncertain, when the religious community of monks had been first established here ; but, Bangor Iscoed appears to have been erected into an episcopal See, about a. d. 550, when Deiniol or Daniel, abbot of the monastery, then became its first bishop. He is stated to have built a
that time, it was reported, that in the Monastery of Bangor Iscoed,13 there was so great a number of monks, that it was divided into seven parts, and none of these contained less than three hundred men, all living by the labour of their and a " or was over each division.
Many of those monks came with the Welsh soldiers, and they fasted for three days. Under the protection ofa chief named Brocmail, they withdrew from the field of battle, to offer up their prayers to God for the success of their countrymen. On his approach, King Ethelfrid14 observed this unarmed band, and being
hands, prsepositus" prefect
informed regarding the occasion of their coming, he said,
not without considerable loss of his own forces. j s Chester
terii de Waverleia," p. 149, in the Annales
Monastici," vol. ii. , edited by Henry Richards
Luard, M. A.
,x
potitus est. "—" Chronica," edited by Wm. cupidissimus, qui plus omnibus Anglorum '
In his account of the Northumbrian
Kings, Roger de Hovenden states : '"Octavus
in regno claruit Ethelnidus fortissimus
regum, qui viginti et octo annis regno mus et paganus ferocissimus ac gloriae
Stubbs, M. A. , vol. i. , Pars Prior, p. 3, primatibus gentem vastabat Britonum, &c.
London, 1868, 8vo, —" Speculum Historiale de Gestis Regum 12 "
shire. The foundation of the religious insti-
tule there has been ascribed to Lucius, King
of Britain, under whose auspices Christianity was firmly established among the Britons.
'* By Richard of Chichester he is styled "Athelfridus Northumbrorum Rex fortissi-
In Latin Civitas Legionum," or City Angliae," vol. i. , lib. ii. , cap. xiii. , p. 84.
of the Legions. By the Britons this city was *
Edited by John E. B. Mayor, M. A.
'5 Venerable Bede adds: " com- Sicque
pletum est praesagium sanctipontificis Augus- tini, quamvis ipso jam multo ante tempore ad coelestia regna sublato, ut etiam temporalis interitus ultionem sentirent perfidi, quod oblata sibi perpetuse salutis consilia spre- verant. "
,s
See Rev. Dr. Lingard's "History of England," vol. i. , chap, i;. , p. 82.
called
'3 This is a parish in the union of Wrex-
ham, in the hundred of Bromfield, County of Denbigh, and in the township of Bangor, in
the hundred of Mallor, County of Flint, North Wales. This is generally thought to have been the Borium or Bonium of Antonine. ItreceivedtheadjunctofIscoedtodistinguish it from the City of Bangor, in Carnarvon-
Caerlleon-ar-Ddyvrdwy.
August 29. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 4i7
college there, for the instruction of youth. Others mention, that Dunothus, abbot of Bangor Iscoed, founded a small establishment on or near the site of
the 1 ' and present Cathedral,
in it monks taken from that
Thither, it is stated, the fifty- monks, who saved themselves from that slaughter by flight into the mountains, afterwards returned, and founded with other religious brethren an establishment called Ban-cor, the present city of Bangor, so delightfully situated in a picturesque valley, bounded on the south
view has been drawn William by
Hingeston, B. A. 22
approved
F. Wakeman, on the wood, engraved by Mrs. Millard.
to the calen- Their festival is entered at the 29th
18 See Samuel Lewis' "
Dictionary of Wales," vol. i. , pp. 59 to 66.
'9 Their chief is named Scromail (Broc- mail), who escaped thence with some fifty. See edition of Benjamin Thorpe, vol. i. , p. 38, and vol. ii. , pp. 18, 19.
20 Edited the Rev. Williams ab by John
Ithel, M. A. , Rector of Llanymowddwy, Merionethshire.
" Edited by the Rev. Francis Charles
dars.
of August.
placed
monastery.
Bangor Cathedral, Wales.
by lofty and precipitous rocks, and having at the eastern extremity a fine opening towards the adjacent straits of Menai, and commanding an extensive view of the beautiful bay of Beaumaris, bordered on the opposite side by the rocky shores of Anglesey and the town of Beaumaris. 18 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which places the massacre at a. d. 606, states, that the number of priests slain at Chester was two hundred. 1 ^ In the " Annales Cambriae," 20 however, there is no record given of that massacre ; neither is it mentioned
" 21
in John Capgrave's Chronicle of England. " According to other accounts,
no less than nine hundred22 monks of Bangor monastery are said, on
one day, to have obtained the crown of martyrdom, at the hands of
Pagan spoilers. It was probably the case, that other spectators of the fight with them were included in the slaughter.
Some writers have doubtless grossly exaggerated the number of monks
** The accompanying illustration from an
Topographical
23 Thus
Ralph Higden,
"Nongentos," according
monk of Chester, Ibi enim circiter mille ducentos monachos de monasterio Bangornensi, qui pro militibus suis orandum juxta urbem venerant, interfecit, solis quinquaginta cu—m
duce Brocinayl de acie fugientibus. "
" Mona- Polychronicon," Ranulphi Higden
chi Cestrensis : edited by Rev. Joseph Rawson Lumby, B. D. , vol. v. , lib. v. , cap. x. , p. 420.
states:
"
ID
4 i8 LIVES OE THE IRISH SAINTS. [August 29
that were slain on this occasion, by estimating it at twelve hundred,23 or thereabouts. 2* This statement is adopted by Henry of Huntingdon in his
Bardsay. However, Brochwael, the Prince of Powys, roused to desperation, collected a great army, and to his standard flocked the men of Cornwall and Siluria, while the King of North Wales entered into the —alliance. Thus strengthened, another —battle was fought, in which Ethelfred known by his soubriquet the Ravager is said to have been routed, with the loss of ten thousand men. 26 The festival for Nine Hundred
of Marianus O'Gorman.
Article III. —Anniversary of Saint Adamnan's or Eunan's reputed Translation to Heaven. The 29th of August, a Festival assigned for the Decollation of St. John the Baptist, is reputed also to have been a feast for the temporary translation of St. Adamnan's soul to heaven. Such is a statement contained in the Vision of Adamnan. 1 For a further account of this celebrated Abbot, the reader is referred to his Acts, which
2
will be given, at the 23rd of September, the date for his chief Festival.
Article IV. —Festival for the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist. In the ancient Irish Church, St. John the Baptist was specially venerated. Thus we find from the Metrical Calendar of St. ^ngus, that
u Historia
2* The
been deserted after this massacre, the poor remnant of monks fleeing to
Anglorum. "
monastery
of is said to have Bangor (Iscoed)
Martyrs
the Martyrology of Donegal, at the 29th of August; and this entry appears to have been drawn from the previous statements of the Feilire Aenguis, and
not
was the Feast of his 1 also in Nativity celebrated; but,
2 at the
the
was kept. ""
34 This is the statement in the " Chronia
3 Thus :—
t)iclient)At) eoin mniAin ahi TYUcipun'OA (sic) mApAib
Sebafcen iprcpibchA peAl -Amm inphicnA4rdi<von4iceT>.
mApobuAilco mApobich niAnocuAjA'o cen-o m pAch -Am ac fAmLA puAipc inliA n-biA ApbpuAch AmpA cobpAch.
ill 11 a T>omAm Ache mAt> bee x>ib
1cenit> bpAch[A] bpeoi-o LabpA ppiu nococechcA m-oegAi-o £chcA eoin.
" of Matthew of " viros cir- Paris,
Majora
citer mille ducentos," &c, vol. i. , p. 260. Edition of Henry Richards Luard, M. A.
25 See lib. iii. , sect. 16, pp. 78, 79. Edited by Thomas Arnold, M. A.
36 See Charles Wilkins' M Wales, Past and Present," chap, viii. , p. 55.
"
37 A note by Dr. Todd says at Martyrs :
This addition is in the more recent hand. The 900 martyrs are commemorated on this day in the Felire of Aengus and in Mar. O'Gorman. "
28 Edited by Rev. Drs. Todd and Reeves,
pp. 228, 229. — Article hi.
Art. i. , at that — day.
*
In Irish, pip 4t)AmnAn. See the Ninth Volume of this work,
4 The
is his version — :
On the 24th of June. See Transactions of the Rnynl Irish Academy," vol. i. , part i. On the Ca. cndar
ofOengus, by Whitley Stokes, LL. D. , p. cxxvi.
beheading of John the loveable,
Article iv.
1
3"
28
only u
Feilire,"
the Feilire," contained in the Leabhar Breac," we are furnished with a eulogy in Irish verse of this great Saint. 3 This has been literally translated into English, by Whitley Stokes, LL. D. * There are likewise some curious
present day,
the Festival of his Decollation or
Martyrdom From further comments on such entry, as found in that copy of
11
following
The splendid,
in Arabia Sebasten,—the course is written—
The name of the village where he was buried.
2? is recorded in
August 29. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 419
Irish traditions, which refer to the time, and to the place where St. John the Baptist suffered,5 as also to the place where he was buried,6 and besides to those places, which are said to have contained his relics. ? Moreover, there are allusions to the old popular belief about the Besom which is to come out of Fanait, and to cleanse Ireland, in vengeance for the slaying of John the
Baptist.
8 This is to
plague supposed precede
the end of the world and St. ;
Colum Cille,9 Aireran of the Wisdom,10
11 and
12 are credited 1 * and Greek Men- ologies, as the Bollandists remark, notice on the 29th of August the Festival for the Decollation of St. John the Baptist. For particulars regarding him, they refer to what had been previously stated, at his chief Feast occurring on
with it. The Roman
prophecies regarding
the 24th of June. 14
" There has not been struck, there has
"
not been slain, — Therehasnotbeenaxe-hewn hard
—
His like—pleasant the flood—
the cause
Nor will there be on (this) marvellous
Earth till
The world's women, save few of them,
In the fire of Doom shall burn Speech with them is unmeet After the slaughter of John. "
Doom(sday).
5 The commentator on the " Feilire " of "
yEngus
in the ' ' Leahbar Breac remarks,
that John the Baptist was so called, because
he was the first to perform the ceremony of
Baptism, or because he baptised Christ.
Then he adds: "unde decollatio eius uere
hie fuit, sed inuentio capitis eius in secunda
uice quoniam in autumno passus est sed in
uere id est ante pascha in edisa ciuitate
fenicae provinciae et in sequente pascha post
annum Christi passus est et eliuatio eleae
profetae et dormitatio Helesiae profetae 7.
decc. martires cum eo. "
6"
come out of Fanait. " ""
Hie Johannis sepultus est in Sebastia.
LoriT) 1 CAch Loipcper
And
poet is presented :
TjpAic
Cen chomAin,o cen
]\onicc fACAjVbAic.
— •
again,
the — following
SAliufA ceArro courtai5 ftochuirroig ceAtro mic SAcViAip
Com OAupcAir-c •oajjm. AC *>o "Oia Ho-onacc m SebApciA.
It is thus rendered into English by Whitley Stokes, LL. D. :—
11 Saliusa (Salome), strong with foot, Asked the head of Zacharias' son :
John Baptist, a good son of God, Wasburiedin Sebastia. "
7 The Latin scholiast already alluded to
''
Inuentio corporis eius hie memora- tur non decolatio eius uere uel decolatio ut in martyrologio est. decolatio sanctissimi Joannis bauptistae qui prinio in Samaria sepultus est. sed nunc in Alexandria reliquiae eius absque capite reseruantur. caput hautem de Jerussolimis ad Phcenicise urbem delatum est. "
* It is stated, that the Besom of Fanait is
states :
" rann from an Irish
Sippefp
eirutro Anirvoerr
:
Moling
Riagail Martyrology
to come in the spring season, and on a Tues- day after Easter at the time of Terce.
9Tohimisattributedthe "Like saying,
the grazing of two horses in a yolk will be the dilligence with which it will cleanse Ireland. "
10 He is said to have " Two predicted :
alehouses shall be in one burgh side by side : he that shall go out of one house into the other will not find anyone before him alive in the house into which he shall go, and afterwards he will not find anyone alive in the house out of which he shall go, such will be the swiftness with which the Besom shall
Three days and three nights and a year will this plague be in Ire- land. When a boat shall be clearly seen on Loch Rudraige from the door of the refec-
tory, then will come the Besom out of Fanait. "
hi peiL eoin uicjta cpeff
12 follows
Riagail said :
This— is rendered in Irish verse as :
It is thus translated into English
" On John's festival will come an
onslaught
Which wHl search Ireland from the
south-east :
A fierce Dragon that will burn every-
one it reaches,
Without communion, without sacri-
fice. "
13 At the 29th of June (Quarta Kal. Sept. )
the following entry is to be found in the
" Romanum" "Decollatio Martyrologium :
sancti Joannis Baptistae, quern Herodcs circa festum Paschse decollari praecepit : cujus tamen memoria hac die solemniter colitur, quando ejus venerandum caput secundo in- ventumfuit: quodposteaRomamtranslatum, in Ecclesia sancti Silv^stri ad Campum Mar—- tium summa populi devotione asservatur. " Editio novissima, Romae, 1878, p. 126.
14 See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. , Au-
gustixxix. Amongthepretermittedfeasts, p. 495.
:
42o LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [August 29 Article V. —Feast of the Translation of St. Cuthbert's Relics
1
the monks of Durham opened his sepulchre. Tin's incident has been
8
recorded by an eye-witness, probably the historian Simeon of Durham. It
took place on the 29th of August, in the year 1104, when the new Cathedral of that city had been nearly completed by William, the second bishop of that
see,aftertheNormanConquest. Hitherto,therelicsofthesainthadbeen preserved in the old church, and then it was resolved to have them translated to the new building, which had a society of monks destined for its services. Previously some doubts had existed, that during some of the previous removals, and owing to the devastations of the Danes, the sacred remains had been destroyed. However, following the received tradition regarding the place of deposition being under a mass of masonry, the prior Turgot, with ten associates, solemnly opened in the silence of night a large and ponderous chest beneath, and which had been previously covered with leather, strongly secured with plates and nails of iron. To separate the top from the sides required their utmost exertions. Within that chest, they discovered a second chest of a size more proportionate to the human boay, and wrapped in a coarse linen cloth, which had been dipped in melted wax. The monks feared, nevertheless, to open it ; but Turgot ordered them to remove the smaller chest from behind the altar to a more convenient place in the middle of the choir. Then they unrolled the cloth, and with trembling hands raised up the lid. But instead of the object of their search, they found a copy of the Gospels, lying on a second lid, which had not been nailed, but which restedonthreetransversebarsofwood. Bytheaidoftwoironrings,fixed attheextremities,itwaseasilyremoved. Thentotheirgreatastonishment, the body was disclosed, lying on its right side, and apparently entire. Afterwards, filled with emotion at such a sight, the monks retired a few paces, and falling prostrate on the floor, they recited the seven penitential psalms. Then they arose, approached the body, lifted it up respectfully, and placed it on a carpet spread over the floor. In the coffin, they found a great number of bones wrapped in linen. These were thought to be the mortal remains of other bishops of Lindisfarne, which had been deposited in the same chest, to facilitate conveyance, when the former monks had been compelled to leave their ancient monastery. Thesetheycollected,andremovedtoadifferentpartofthechurch. Asthe hour of matins had then approached, the monks hastily replaced the body in its coffin, and carried it back to its former situation behind the high altar. The evening next succeeding, and at a like hour, they resumed investigation, and the body was again placed on the floor of the choir. Then it was found, that a linen robe, a dalmatic, a chasuble and a mantle had originally covered it. A pair of scissors, a comb of ivory, a silver altar,3 a patine, and a small chalice,4 remarkable for the elegance and richness of its ornaments,
at Durham. Four hundred and eighteen years after St. Cuthbert's death
Article v. — • The Life of St. Cuthbert Trinitati.
has been already given in the Third Volume found on the breast of Acca, Bishop of
of this work, at the 20th of March, Art. i.
2
Hexham, when his tomb was opened, about the year 1000. See Simeon of Durham, "Historia Regum,"sect. 36, p. 33. Symeonis Monachi "Opera Omnia," vol. ii. , edited
by Thomas Arnold, M. A. , London, 1885, 8vo.
See an interesting account of the Trans-
"
la'ion in Rev. John Lingard's
ties of the Anglo-Saxon Church," chap. viii. , pp. 160 to 163.
3 The altar was a flat of on plate silver,
which it was customary to conscaate the
Holy Eucharist. A similar altar made from
two pieces of wood, fastened with silver
nails, and bearing the inscription, "Alme enclosed in the chalice, "oblatis super
Antiqui-
Agiw. Sophiae.
Sanctae Marias. '' was
* The very ancient and anonymous author
of Vita S. Cuthberti, published by the Bollandists, states, that the Eucharist was
August 30. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. . 421
had been buried with the remains. Having surveyed the body until their veneration and curiosity were satisfied, they restored it to that tomb, in
which it had formerly reposed. The following morning, the monks were eager to announce the discovery of the two preceding nights, and a solemn
act of thanksgiving was performed to publish their triumph and to silence the doubts of incredulous persons. However, the abbot of a neighbouring monastery entertained a rational scepticism, as he alleged, that the tomb had been opened in the dead of night, none but a few of the monks of Durham being permitted to be present. Suspicions and altercations continued almost to the day for celebrating the translation, when many of the nobility and clergy of the neighbouring countries had been invited to assemble. Alexander, brother to the King of Scots, and Radulfus, abbot of Seez, in Normandy, were present. The latter prevailed on Abbot Turgot to exhibit the chest and to open the lid, in presence of the incredulous. By permission of Turgot, the abbot of Seez then approached, raised up the body, and
and the
of St. Cuthbert's relics was performed, with the accustomed ceremonies. 6
Article VI. —Reputed Feast of St. Fiacrius, or Fiacre. At the
1
29th of August, Camerarius has entered a feast for St. Fiacrius, said to have
been son of Eugenius IV. , King of Scotland. On this authority, and at this date, the Bollandists2 notice him, likewise, but properly refer his festival and
acts to the following day.
+.
Cfttrttetf) Bap of 3ugu*t»
ARTICLE L—ST. FIACRE, HERMIT, AT BREUIL, FRANCE. {SEVENTH CENTURY. }
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION—MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED AUTHORITIES FOR ST. FIACRE'S ACTS— HIS COUNTRY AND PARENTAGE—HE LEAVES IRELAND AND TRAVELS TO FRANCE —HE ARRIVES THERE DURING THE EPISCOPATE OF ST. FARO.
seems strange to state—but it is no less true—that missionaries exiled IT from their beloved native land, homes and families, and the founders of distant religious colonies, feel a happiness more sublime and refined in those mysterious transports of soul, which spring from their charity and self-
sanctum pectus positis. "—"Acta Sane- M. A. , London, 1882, 8vo.
the head, the
At this sight, every dqubt vanished; the most incredulous confessed themselves satisfied. Afterwards, the Te Deum was chaunted, and that Translation
proved
the
flexibility
of the
joints, by moving
arms,
legs.
torum," tomus iii. , Martii xx.
5 Speaking of this exposition, the his-
torian, Simeon of Durham, writes of himself,
"incorruptum corpus ejus, quadringentessimo
et octavo decimo dormiiionis anno, ejus
6 See the Benedictine "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. , ssec. ii. Translatio S. Cuthberti,
divina quamvis indignis gratia
videre — et
Forbes' Kalendars of Scottish Saints," p. 240.
manibus quoque contrectare donavit. "
a See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vi. , cap. x. , p. 34. Symeonis Monachi Opera Augusti xxix. Among the pretermitted
"Historia Dunelmensis Ecclesise," lib. "
i. ,
Omnia," vol i. , edited by Thomas Arnold, saints, p. 496.
p. 294. Article VI.
—
Thus
" :
29
Die.
Sanctus
Fiacrius —ScotorumRegishocnomine Eugenii
quarti
Alius. "
Bishop
5
4 2 2 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [August 30.
denial, than do the rich and favoured ones of this world, in their foolish
pride and selfish indulgence. The great pastors of souls not only experience
but communicate happiness to others, and thus earn the respect of all, who
admire greatness of thought, united with efforts for good. The temperance of their living, and the zeal that consumes them for the honour and glory of God, indicate true philosophy and devotion to duty harmoniously combined. Our Irish missionaries not only introduced the germs of a spiritual life amongthosepeoplesintowhoselandstheyjourneyed; buteven,ascolonists, their labours cannot be underrated in an industrial point of view. There is much to be related, regarding this, holy man's life, as he became very celebrated ; but more still has been placed on record, and referring especially to those miracles, wrought through his intercession, for long centuries after his death.
Several manuscript lives of this holy hermit are yet extant, and to be found in various public libraries, as at Oxford, 1 while this Life2 has been
printed in John Capgrave's work,3 and thence borrowed by Messingham ;*- another at Utrecht,s and this, different from the formet, has been published
by Surius
;
also, at
Montpellier •?
belonging
Jesuit
68
one at Bruxelles,
to the Library;? while at Dijon, also, there is a tract, which has been published by
10 11 in reference to miracles wrought by St. Fiacre.
the Bollandists,
Brief particulars of our saint's life are given in many French Breviaries.
Thus, those of Burgundy12 and of Auxerre'3 have lessons proper for his
—n of Meaux—
venerated we find proper Lessons for his Office at the Sunday after the 30th of August j and these contain the chief incidents of his life, briefly narrated, with some interesting particulars about the local respect which has been constantly paid to his relics after death. Those lessons have served to
in which
feast. 14 I the Breviary diocese this saint is specially
Article i. —Chapter i. —'In a Cot-
tonian MS. classed Tiberius 223b. E. T. ^I
9 It contains a diffuse Prologue, which
with " Christi Confessor, Egregius
begins
224; and in a Bodleian MS. , classed Fiacrius perfectus evangelicae institutionis
Tanner 15, veil, folio, xv. cent. discipulus enituit. " The Life itself com-
2""
It begins with these words, Sanctus Fiacrius Confessor, vir vita venerabilis :" and it ends with this sentence, "et floruit circa annum Domini sexcentessimum vices- simumsecundum. "
Beatus Fiacrius, Eremita magnifi- cus, in Meldensi territorio. " It ends wiih these words, "qui cum Patre et Spiritu Sancto vivit et regnat Deus per infinite saeculasseculorum. Amen. " TheBolland- ists have printed this Life, in their collection of Saints' Acts.
,0 See Miracula S. Fiacrii facta Divione,
in Sacello Uucis Burgundiae auctore
3 See " Nova Legenda Anglise," fol. 147. "
4 See Florilegium Insula? Sanctorum," p. 390. Messingham introduces some other miracles of St. Fiacre, taken from Surius, which are not in Capgrave ;. also an extract from the Breviary of Burgundy, and a hymn
anonymo ex MS. Divionensi. This begins "
"
Lucernae novae specula. "
s Headed, Vita S. Fiacrii Confessoris et EremitX, and it is in a beautiful manuscript belonging to the cathedral church in that
"
Beatus Fiacrius, ex Hibernia nobilibnsorta parenti- bus. " It ends with this sentence, "quod de singulis non est nostra possibilitatis
cribere. "
6 In "De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis," at
the 30th of August, tomus iv. , p. 329.
^ It is preserved among the MSS. of Bib-
liotheque de l'Ecole de Medecine, and it is classed MS. Bibl. da Roi, 5361 . 5. olim Philiberti de la Mare, veil. xiv. cent.
•This has been written by an anonymous author.
with Mirabilis Deus in Sanctis suis, qui
beginning,
virtutem eis tribuit faciendi miracula. "
Its ending is "cum gaudio ad propria remeavit. "
"See Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy's " De-
scriptive Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland,"
vol. i. , part i. , pp. 272 to 274.
city.