The Bollandists have
published
the Acts of St.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1
cent.
MS.
Bibl.
du Roi, folio ; xi.
cent.
MS.
Monast.
S.
Vedasti 5,291, 18, olim, Colbert, veil.
; xiii.
cent.
apud Atrebat.
MS.
Eccl, Atrebat.
A.
13.
MS.
Bibl.
du Roi, 5,300, 4, olim Faurian, MS.
Insul.
apud Claudium Doresmiculx.
veil.
MS.
Bibl.
du Roi, 5,314, 8, olim S.
xi. cent. MS. Lambeth, 173, ff. 180-188, with classification veil, folio ; xi. cent. MS. Harl. 2,800, ff.
:
MS. S. Marise Bonifantis. MS. Belfort. " Martial Lemovic, veil. ; xi. cent. MS. Bibl. "
Again under the heading Vita Sancti Fu—r- du Roi, 5,318, 24, olim Bigot, veil. ; xiii.
:
sei, Abbatis Hibemi," we find recorded Roi, 5,319, 33, olim
cent. MS. Bibl. du
MS. Bibl. Vatican Regin. Christin. 573 ; xii. Colbert, veil. ; xii: cent. MS. Bibl. du Roi, cent. MS. Bibl. Sessorianse No. 39, veil. 5,341, 29, olim Colbert, veil. xii. cent.
;
ix. cent. MS. Cygniacens. in Gallia. MS. MS. Bibl. du Roi, 5,568, 15, olim Le Tel- S. Marise Bonifantis. MS. Belfort. " Under lier, veil. ; xi. cent. MS. Bibl. du Roi,
the head of "Vita Beati Fursei, Presbyteri
tero," " Ixi. 8 folio, veil. ; xiii. or xiv. cent.
5,604, I, olim Colbert, veil. ; x. cent. MS.
Bibl. de I'Ecole de Medecine,
22. MS. Montpellier,
Augsburg. MS. Hamburg. MS.
atque Abbatis, edita a Sancto Beda, Presby- we find a " MS. Coll. Univers. Oxon.
MS. at Stuttgart. Colgan mentions an Irish Life of St. Fursey in MS. , and divided into chapters, which differs from one described in
"
tinae Vatican, 594. MS. Regin. Christinse Vatican, 108. MS. Regin. Christinje Va- tican, 1,279. MS. Bibl. Laurentian£e-Me- diceae Florentise, xvii. , 34. MS.
Heiligen-
Catalogue of the Stowe MSS," "
There "
Regin. Christinte Vatican, 5. MS.
is also another "Vita S. Fursei Abbatis, in Christinse Vatican, 568. MS. Regin. Chris-
O'Connor's
i. 161, as here named Beatha Naoimh kreutz in Austria. MS. Molk. MS. Re- Furse,"orthe "Life of St. Fursey. " This gensbourg, xi. cent. MS. Elnonens, 199. is classed "MS. Stowe," xxxvi. , p. 165, 4to MS. S. Udalrici et Affrse, Augustse, folio ; paper; xvii. cent. Besides, we have "De XV. cent. MS. Ecclesiae S. Audomari. "
S. Furseo," the same texts as printed in Cap-
"
grave and Messingham,
E. 1. ff. 22b-25. MS. Bodl. Tanner, 15, veil,
See Sir Thomas Duffus
MS. Cott. Tiber.
Hardy's "Descrip- tive Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland," vol.
"
folio, dble cols. ; xv. cent. Another Vita i. , parti. , pp. 239 to 246.
S. Fursei" has been preserved in the follow- ^ It is classed MSS. vol.
iv. , prart ii. ,' —r
"MS. Bodl. ff. 336,
p
ing copies
veil,folio,dble. cols. ;xiv. cent. MS. Bodl,
:
235b-236b. 50.
—"MS.
Many
Regin.
224 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [January i6.
The chief reliable particulars for his Life must have been found in an
ancient biography of this saint, ^v-ritten by an anonymous author, and referred tobytheVenerableBede. 3 TheRev. AlbanButlerstatesthataMS. lifeof
our saint, written by Bede, is to be found in the King's Library, at the British Museum ; but this is evidently a mistake made by the learned English hagio- logist. It is by no means certain that the book mentioned by Bede had been written by himself, although he seems to have used it in compiling the nine- teenth chapter of his Ecclesiastical History.
Among those more modem wTiters, who treat about St. Fursey, may be mentioned Vincentius Bellonacensis,s St. Antoninus,^ Almoin,? Andreas Du Chesne,^ Sigebert,^ David Camerarius,^° Autbertus Miraeus," Molanus," Nicholas Harpsfeld,^3 Harseus, Lippeloo,'^ Hieronymus Flatus,'s Petrus de Natalibus, Baronius,'^ Matthew of Westminster,'7 and Ralph of Chester. '^ Besides these, John Capgrave,'9 Hanmer,^" Surius,^' the Benedictines,^" Adrien Baillet,"3 Messingham,"* Rev. Alban Butler. ^s Dempster,'^ Camerarius,"? Guido, Abbot of St. Denis f^ Belefortius,^9 the German and Belgian writers, Valentinus Leuctius, Rosweyde, and Henry Adrian, as also James Desmay,3o Doctor of the Sorbonne, who wrote in French, the Bollandists and Colgan,3^ with nearly all the other writers, who have dwelt at any length on hagiology, have not neglected to record the acts and visions of this illustrious missionary.
The Bollandists have published the Acts of St. Fursey. 3" After a preli- minary notice in three sections,33 the first published Life is contained in seven chapters, consisting of thirty-nine paragraphs, with the miracles of St. Fursey
3 See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis An- glorum," lib. iii. , cap. xix.
* See " Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other Principal Saints," voL i. , Jan. xvi.
5 Lib. xxiii. , cap. Ixxx.
*
Par, 2, tit. 13, c. 6, sec. 23. 7 Lib. i. , cap. xviii.
" "Acta Sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedict! ,"
tomus ii. Here the Life of St. Fursey ap-
pears, with some previous observations, in 1 5 paragraphs. The Life itself is written in
36 paragraphs, the virtues of St. Fursey in 21 paragraphs. See pp. 229 to 315.
' Tomus " i. ,
*3 " Les Vies des Saints," at January xv! . , pp. 203 to 206.
Scriptorum Franciorum. "
9" '*"
Chronicon," A. D. 648.
'° "De Scotorum Pietate," lib. iii.
See
and other Principal Saints," vol. ! . , January xvi.
^ In " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Sco- torum. "
^ See " De Pietate Scotorum,"
"In " Fasti Belgici et Burgundici," xvi. Januarii, pp. 34, 35,
PP- 393
"In " Natalibus Sanctorum Belgii," p.
13, in two paragraphs.
'3 " Historia Anglise," saec. vii. , cap. xvii.
^ " Vitae Sanctorum," at January xvi. , pp.
=* " De lib. i. Sanctis,"
to
289 295.
'5 A Jesuit writer, in his work, " De Bono Status lib. xxvi.
^ " In Supplemento. " 3° A Canon of Peronne.
'* "
Religiosi," ii. , cap.
Aimales Ecclesiastic! ," tomus viiL
His Life of St. Fursey appeared in Paris, A. D. 1607, and ! t
was reprinted A. D. 1623.
3' This array of writers shows how greatly
'® "
Lib. v. , cap. xiii. See Acta Sanc- the fame of St. Fursey extended among the
learned. See " Acta Sanctorum Colgan's
A. D. 644.
'7 "Flores Historianun," A. D. 647.
torum tomus Januarii,"
xvi.
Acta S. Fursaei. Praeviae Annotationes, sec. Hibemiae," xvi. Januarii. Appendix ad
ii. , p. 36.
'9 See " Nova Legenda Angliae," Septimo
decimo Kal. Februarii, fol. cliv. , civ. , clvi. ='°See "Chronicle of Ireland," pp. 151,
152.
""DeProbatisSanctorumVitis. " Surius
published the Acts of our saint, at the i6th of January, and these he supposed to have been identical with that Life referred to by Bede.
Acta S. Furssei, cap. ! . , p. 92.
3* See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. , xvi.
Januarii. Vita S. Fursaei, pp. 35 to 55.
33 The first notice refers to various festivals of our saint ; the second to different writers, whohavetreatedconcerninghim; whilethe third section contains two hymns in his honour, which latter are also pubUshed by
Colgan.
ii. ,
Januarii.
Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum," 399.
to
=5 See "Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,
January 1 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 225
in four chapters and twenty-five paragraphs. 24 Another imperfect life, by an anonymous author, is given in twelve chapters, containing sixty-five para- graphs ; while a second book contains the miracles of St. Fursey in six
chapters and thirty-one paragraphs. 35 The editor remarks, that in the time of Venerable Bede, a little tract on St. Fursey's life had been written, from the
reading of which much spiritual profit might be derived. It appears to have been the treatise edited by Surius. s^ This, the Bollandists collated with a
manuscript of Corbie, an Irish Life of St. Fursey, two acts belonging to the Church of St. Audomar, a Bertinian, one of St. Mary de Ripatoris, one of St. Maximin, and one of D. Preudhomme, Canon of Cambray, besides several others. 37 To what Surius had published, the Bollandists added the Book of Miracles. They thought the life, which Bede stated to be sufficiently full of
Fursey's acts and those of his companions, had only been given by him in an abridged state. Andrew De Chesne had sent them another life, the first parts of which had been taken word for word from a Life of St. Foillan, it was intended should be published at the 31st of October, while the latter parts were drawn from the Book of St. Fursey's Miracles, to which some short notices had been added. In "
Sanctorum and in Thomas Anglias,"
'* Insulae Sanc- Messingham's Florilegium
torum," other particulars were found abbreviated from previous compilations. The Bollandists describe a more prolix life, taken from an old codex of the Mo- nasteryofSt. MaryBonifontis. It,however,aboundedincontractions. They omittedthosemiddleparts,whichhadbeencompiledfromtheformeracts. In his Prologue and Epilogue, the author asserts that his acts had been compiled from ancient records found in many places. James Desmay's biography agreed in most particulars with the Bollandists' Codex, especially in reference to the wonders accompanying St. Fursey's birth, and which are related in the Life of St. Foillan. To these, the Bollandists added what Venerable Bede has written. 3^
The Bollandist Fathers have published a life, which has appeared, like-
"
wise, in Colgan's
Acta Sanctorum Hiberni9e. "39 But there are some verbal
differences between versions of this latter life, as found in the Bollandist
collections, and in those of Colgan. Bollandus has adopted an opinion of
Surius, regarding the tract he has published having been the life Bede referred .
to ; but he has issued a more correct version than that of Surius, and at the
same monthly date, observing that even these "Acta" seem to be im-
perfect. Bede speaks of only one book relating to St. Fursey ; yet Bollandus has added a second treatise on miracles attributed to this holy man. From
its style and other circumstances, it was supposed this latter tract had been written by a different author. 4° Mabillon doubts of its being a part of our saint's original acts, while he coincides in opinion with Surius and Bollandus, regarding the first book being that identical treatise referred to by Venerable
Bede. 4' Different acts of St. Fursey have been compiled.
Those best known
of the
3* These foregoing acts have not been pub-
ap-
tomus ii. , p. 287.
lished
peared previous to the issue of his work.
by Colgan, although they
History
English Nation,"
35 Editorial notes are annexed throughout.
3* Surius has published the Acts of St. Fursey in 21 paragraphs. See " De Proba- tis Sanctorum Vitis," vol. i. , xvi. Januarii,
pp. 259 to 263.
37 Mabillon reprinted the ancient Life
already issued by Surius and Bollandus, as
39 There it is intituled, "VitaS. Furssei, Confessoris ex Membranis Monasterii Cygnia- censis in Gallia. "
"
'•° See Dr. Lanigan's Ecclesiastical His-
also by Colgan, from a MS. Cygniacensis. ''"
*' See " Acta Sanctorum Ordinis S. Bene- dicti," tomus ii. , praefatio, p. 299.
See ActaSanctorumOrdinisS. Benedicti, Vol. I.
Q
had
3^ In his "
book iii. , chap. xix.
John Capgrave's
Legenda
tory of Ireland," vol. ii. , chap, xvi. , § vii. , n. 52, p. 450.
2 26 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAIN2S, [January i6.
are published at the i6th of January, by Bollandus, and Colgan, as already noticed. The author of these was Amulphus, Abbot of Lagny, who lived in
the eleventh century. *^ They are comprised in two books. Yet Colgan has added a third, in which he merely reproduces that portion of Venerable
"
Ecclesiastical History of England," especially referring to Fursey. 43 Besides the life of this saint already mentioned, as published by Colgan, at the 1 6th of January, our Irish hagiologist has given us another life of him, at the 9th of February, one of those days likewise dedicated to his memory. 4* This latter Hfe is in Latin, having been translated by the Rev. Father Eugene O'Gallagher, of the Irish Franciscan Convent at Louvain, from the French
language.
xi. cent. MS. Lambeth, 173, ff. 180-188, with classification veil, folio ; xi. cent. MS. Harl. 2,800, ff.
:
MS. S. Marise Bonifantis. MS. Belfort. " Martial Lemovic, veil. ; xi. cent. MS. Bibl. "
Again under the heading Vita Sancti Fu—r- du Roi, 5,318, 24, olim Bigot, veil. ; xiii.
:
sei, Abbatis Hibemi," we find recorded Roi, 5,319, 33, olim
cent. MS. Bibl. du
MS. Bibl. Vatican Regin. Christin. 573 ; xii. Colbert, veil. ; xii: cent. MS. Bibl. du Roi, cent. MS. Bibl. Sessorianse No. 39, veil. 5,341, 29, olim Colbert, veil. xii. cent.
;
ix. cent. MS. Cygniacens. in Gallia. MS. MS. Bibl. du Roi, 5,568, 15, olim Le Tel- S. Marise Bonifantis. MS. Belfort. " Under lier, veil. ; xi. cent. MS. Bibl. du Roi,
the head of "Vita Beati Fursei, Presbyteri
tero," " Ixi. 8 folio, veil. ; xiii. or xiv. cent.
5,604, I, olim Colbert, veil. ; x. cent. MS.
Bibl. de I'Ecole de Medecine,
22. MS. Montpellier,
Augsburg. MS. Hamburg. MS.
atque Abbatis, edita a Sancto Beda, Presby- we find a " MS. Coll. Univers. Oxon.
MS. at Stuttgart. Colgan mentions an Irish Life of St. Fursey in MS. , and divided into chapters, which differs from one described in
"
tinae Vatican, 594. MS. Regin. Christinse Vatican, 108. MS. Regin. Christinje Va- tican, 1,279. MS. Bibl. Laurentian£e-Me- diceae Florentise, xvii. , 34. MS.
Heiligen-
Catalogue of the Stowe MSS," "
There "
Regin. Christinte Vatican, 5. MS.
is also another "Vita S. Fursei Abbatis, in Christinse Vatican, 568. MS. Regin. Chris-
O'Connor's
i. 161, as here named Beatha Naoimh kreutz in Austria. MS. Molk. MS. Re- Furse,"orthe "Life of St. Fursey. " This gensbourg, xi. cent. MS. Elnonens, 199. is classed "MS. Stowe," xxxvi. , p. 165, 4to MS. S. Udalrici et Affrse, Augustse, folio ; paper; xvii. cent. Besides, we have "De XV. cent. MS. Ecclesiae S. Audomari. "
S. Furseo," the same texts as printed in Cap-
"
grave and Messingham,
E. 1. ff. 22b-25. MS. Bodl. Tanner, 15, veil,
See Sir Thomas Duffus
MS. Cott. Tiber.
Hardy's "Descrip- tive Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland," vol.
"
folio, dble cols. ; xv. cent. Another Vita i. , parti. , pp. 239 to 246.
S. Fursei" has been preserved in the follow- ^ It is classed MSS. vol.
iv. , prart ii. ,' —r
"MS. Bodl. ff. 336,
p
ing copies
veil,folio,dble. cols. ;xiv. cent. MS. Bodl,
:
235b-236b. 50.
—"MS.
Many
Regin.
224 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [January i6.
The chief reliable particulars for his Life must have been found in an
ancient biography of this saint, ^v-ritten by an anonymous author, and referred tobytheVenerableBede. 3 TheRev. AlbanButlerstatesthataMS. lifeof
our saint, written by Bede, is to be found in the King's Library, at the British Museum ; but this is evidently a mistake made by the learned English hagio- logist. It is by no means certain that the book mentioned by Bede had been written by himself, although he seems to have used it in compiling the nine- teenth chapter of his Ecclesiastical History.
Among those more modem wTiters, who treat about St. Fursey, may be mentioned Vincentius Bellonacensis,s St. Antoninus,^ Almoin,? Andreas Du Chesne,^ Sigebert,^ David Camerarius,^° Autbertus Miraeus," Molanus," Nicholas Harpsfeld,^3 Harseus, Lippeloo,'^ Hieronymus Flatus,'s Petrus de Natalibus, Baronius,'^ Matthew of Westminster,'7 and Ralph of Chester. '^ Besides these, John Capgrave,'9 Hanmer,^" Surius,^' the Benedictines,^" Adrien Baillet,"3 Messingham,"* Rev. Alban Butler. ^s Dempster,'^ Camerarius,"? Guido, Abbot of St. Denis f^ Belefortius,^9 the German and Belgian writers, Valentinus Leuctius, Rosweyde, and Henry Adrian, as also James Desmay,3o Doctor of the Sorbonne, who wrote in French, the Bollandists and Colgan,3^ with nearly all the other writers, who have dwelt at any length on hagiology, have not neglected to record the acts and visions of this illustrious missionary.
The Bollandists have published the Acts of St. Fursey. 3" After a preli- minary notice in three sections,33 the first published Life is contained in seven chapters, consisting of thirty-nine paragraphs, with the miracles of St. Fursey
3 See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis An- glorum," lib. iii. , cap. xix.
* See " Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other Principal Saints," voL i. , Jan. xvi.
5 Lib. xxiii. , cap. Ixxx.
*
Par, 2, tit. 13, c. 6, sec. 23. 7 Lib. i. , cap. xviii.
" "Acta Sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedict! ,"
tomus ii. Here the Life of St. Fursey ap-
pears, with some previous observations, in 1 5 paragraphs. The Life itself is written in
36 paragraphs, the virtues of St. Fursey in 21 paragraphs. See pp. 229 to 315.
' Tomus " i. ,
*3 " Les Vies des Saints," at January xv! . , pp. 203 to 206.
Scriptorum Franciorum. "
9" '*"
Chronicon," A. D. 648.
'° "De Scotorum Pietate," lib. iii.
See
and other Principal Saints," vol. ! . , January xvi.
^ In " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Sco- torum. "
^ See " De Pietate Scotorum,"
"In " Fasti Belgici et Burgundici," xvi. Januarii, pp. 34, 35,
PP- 393
"In " Natalibus Sanctorum Belgii," p.
13, in two paragraphs.
'3 " Historia Anglise," saec. vii. , cap. xvii.
^ " Vitae Sanctorum," at January xvi. , pp.
=* " De lib. i. Sanctis,"
to
289 295.
'5 A Jesuit writer, in his work, " De Bono Status lib. xxvi.
^ " In Supplemento. " 3° A Canon of Peronne.
'* "
Religiosi," ii. , cap.
Aimales Ecclesiastic! ," tomus viiL
His Life of St. Fursey appeared in Paris, A. D. 1607, and ! t
was reprinted A. D. 1623.
3' This array of writers shows how greatly
'® "
Lib. v. , cap. xiii. See Acta Sanc- the fame of St. Fursey extended among the
learned. See " Acta Sanctorum Colgan's
A. D. 644.
'7 "Flores Historianun," A. D. 647.
torum tomus Januarii,"
xvi.
Acta S. Fursaei. Praeviae Annotationes, sec. Hibemiae," xvi. Januarii. Appendix ad
ii. , p. 36.
'9 See " Nova Legenda Angliae," Septimo
decimo Kal. Februarii, fol. cliv. , civ. , clvi. ='°See "Chronicle of Ireland," pp. 151,
152.
""DeProbatisSanctorumVitis. " Surius
published the Acts of our saint, at the i6th of January, and these he supposed to have been identical with that Life referred to by Bede.
Acta S. Furssei, cap. ! . , p. 92.
3* See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. , xvi.
Januarii. Vita S. Fursaei, pp. 35 to 55.
33 The first notice refers to various festivals of our saint ; the second to different writers, whohavetreatedconcerninghim; whilethe third section contains two hymns in his honour, which latter are also pubUshed by
Colgan.
ii. ,
Januarii.
Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum," 399.
to
=5 See "Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,
January 1 6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 225
in four chapters and twenty-five paragraphs. 24 Another imperfect life, by an anonymous author, is given in twelve chapters, containing sixty-five para- graphs ; while a second book contains the miracles of St. Fursey in six
chapters and thirty-one paragraphs. 35 The editor remarks, that in the time of Venerable Bede, a little tract on St. Fursey's life had been written, from the
reading of which much spiritual profit might be derived. It appears to have been the treatise edited by Surius. s^ This, the Bollandists collated with a
manuscript of Corbie, an Irish Life of St. Fursey, two acts belonging to the Church of St. Audomar, a Bertinian, one of St. Mary de Ripatoris, one of St. Maximin, and one of D. Preudhomme, Canon of Cambray, besides several others. 37 To what Surius had published, the Bollandists added the Book of Miracles. They thought the life, which Bede stated to be sufficiently full of
Fursey's acts and those of his companions, had only been given by him in an abridged state. Andrew De Chesne had sent them another life, the first parts of which had been taken word for word from a Life of St. Foillan, it was intended should be published at the 31st of October, while the latter parts were drawn from the Book of St. Fursey's Miracles, to which some short notices had been added. In "
Sanctorum and in Thomas Anglias,"
'* Insulae Sanc- Messingham's Florilegium
torum," other particulars were found abbreviated from previous compilations. The Bollandists describe a more prolix life, taken from an old codex of the Mo- nasteryofSt. MaryBonifontis. It,however,aboundedincontractions. They omittedthosemiddleparts,whichhadbeencompiledfromtheformeracts. In his Prologue and Epilogue, the author asserts that his acts had been compiled from ancient records found in many places. James Desmay's biography agreed in most particulars with the Bollandists' Codex, especially in reference to the wonders accompanying St. Fursey's birth, and which are related in the Life of St. Foillan. To these, the Bollandists added what Venerable Bede has written. 3^
The Bollandist Fathers have published a life, which has appeared, like-
"
wise, in Colgan's
Acta Sanctorum Hiberni9e. "39 But there are some verbal
differences between versions of this latter life, as found in the Bollandist
collections, and in those of Colgan. Bollandus has adopted an opinion of
Surius, regarding the tract he has published having been the life Bede referred .
to ; but he has issued a more correct version than that of Surius, and at the
same monthly date, observing that even these "Acta" seem to be im-
perfect. Bede speaks of only one book relating to St. Fursey ; yet Bollandus has added a second treatise on miracles attributed to this holy man. From
its style and other circumstances, it was supposed this latter tract had been written by a different author. 4° Mabillon doubts of its being a part of our saint's original acts, while he coincides in opinion with Surius and Bollandus, regarding the first book being that identical treatise referred to by Venerable
Bede. 4' Different acts of St. Fursey have been compiled.
Those best known
of the
3* These foregoing acts have not been pub-
ap-
tomus ii. , p. 287.
lished
peared previous to the issue of his work.
by Colgan, although they
History
English Nation,"
35 Editorial notes are annexed throughout.
3* Surius has published the Acts of St. Fursey in 21 paragraphs. See " De Proba- tis Sanctorum Vitis," vol. i. , xvi. Januarii,
pp. 259 to 263.
37 Mabillon reprinted the ancient Life
already issued by Surius and Bollandus, as
39 There it is intituled, "VitaS. Furssei, Confessoris ex Membranis Monasterii Cygnia- censis in Gallia. "
"
'•° See Dr. Lanigan's Ecclesiastical His-
also by Colgan, from a MS. Cygniacensis. ''"
*' See " Acta Sanctorum Ordinis S. Bene- dicti," tomus ii. , praefatio, p. 299.
See ActaSanctorumOrdinisS. Benedicti, Vol. I.
Q
had
3^ In his "
book iii. , chap. xix.
John Capgrave's
Legenda
tory of Ireland," vol. ii. , chap, xvi. , § vii. , n. 52, p. 450.
2 26 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAIN2S, [January i6.
are published at the i6th of January, by Bollandus, and Colgan, as already noticed. The author of these was Amulphus, Abbot of Lagny, who lived in
the eleventh century. *^ They are comprised in two books. Yet Colgan has added a third, in which he merely reproduces that portion of Venerable
"
Ecclesiastical History of England," especially referring to Fursey. 43 Besides the life of this saint already mentioned, as published by Colgan, at the 1 6th of January, our Irish hagiologist has given us another life of him, at the 9th of February, one of those days likewise dedicated to his memory. 4* This latter Hfe is in Latin, having been translated by the Rev. Father Eugene O'Gallagher, of the Irish Franciscan Convent at Louvain, from the French
language.
