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taleus,'°^ Culeneus,'°7 Asacus,^°^ Bitheus,'°9 Fa]ertus,"° Seseneus,*" Muireth- chiser,"' Temoreris,"3 Daigreus,"* Justianus mac hua Daimene,"^ Oltcanus,"^Domnallus,withmanyothers. "7 ItdoesnotappearfromTire- chan, that all of these were bishops ;"^ since, he only calls them disciples of St. Patrick. "9
A list"° of the twenty-four persons, who formed the household of St. Patrick, is found among our ancient Irish Manuscripts. Thus, in the Book of Ballymote,"' as also in that of Lecan,"" a list of the chief persons of St. Patrick's own family is contained. "3 The Book of Lecan contains, likewise, the names of converts to the preaching of St. Patrick. "4 Again, do we meet with a Poem,"s on the office-holders in the household of St. Patrick.
The Officials and Members of St. Patrick's
in the translation of an Irish Poem,"^ as set forth in the following terms
or Maccectus, about whom the Latin Tri- partiteLifetreats,atpartii. , chap,xli. ,p. 135, and at part iii. , chap xcviii. , p. 167.
'°* Some of St. Patrick's disciples were
not advanced to the episcopacy, until after
theirillustriousmaster'sdeath. Forirstince,
Mactaleus, who was Bishop of Kilculien,
must have been very young, when St.
Patrick died. It is related, that he lived according to Dr. Lanigan, read, Justinus until A. D. 549. His feast is at the nth of
June. Even supposing he had not lived so
long, he could not have been bishop there,
imtil after the death of Isseminus, in the ""
year 469. See Ussher's Index Chronolo- gicus," ad A. D. ccccxlix. and cccclxix.
ad Acta S. Patricii, cap. xxiii. , p. 268. "*OrOlcanus. Whetherhediffersfrom of February. Might Culeneus, have been the former so named, or not, is unascer-
"7Colganthinkshisfeastwasatthe18th
the same as St. Mac-Culindus, asks Dr. tained.
Lanigan, and who is said to have been "7 There is a St. Domhnall, at the l6th Bishop of Lusk, where his memory was of April. Afterwards, is added, "et alii
celebrated, on the 6th of September, and he
is said to have died, in 497 ? See Butler's
"Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other
Principal Saints," vol. ix. , at the 6th of Patrick's particular disciples. September, and Archdall's " Monasticon
Hibernicum," county of Dublin, at Lusk. Also " Ecclesiastical History of Ireland,"
these disciples, as if they were all bishops, and living in St Patrick's time. See " De
vol. i. , chap, vii. , sect, v. , n. 36, pp. 337, Primordiis Ecclesiarum Britannicarum,"
338- 108
Probably, the same as Assacus, or Assi- chus, Bishop of Elphin, and venerated on the 27ih of April.
"° A
'°9 Probably, Bite, the son of Assicus,
already mentioned in St. Patrick's Acts.
There is a St. Biteus, Abbot of Inis-Cumh-
raidhe, now Inishcoursy, at the 22nd of bishop.
July.
"° The proper rendering is said to be Leabhar Breac, at fol. 1 10 (now 99), b. b,
Fulertus, Felartus, or Fulartus. He is not known.
"' He was probably the Sezinus, or Sezni, according to Dr. Lanigan, of Guic-
in the name "•* At fol. a. col. Britany. Colgan says, 113,
Sezni,
should be Sesenus, venerated at the 31st of August.
3.
'*5 This is in the Book of Lecan, at fol.
44, b. col. 4. line 12. See, also, the Manu- '" His place in our history is not known, script, classed 23. E. 26, at p. 240, in the
although Colgan thinks, he may have been Murdhebar, venerated on the 3rd of No- vember.
Royal Irish Academy.
"* This is to be found, in Dr. O'Donovan's
"Annals of the Four Masters," vol. i. , pp.
"3 To this we find " added, qui
with illustrative and the notes,
fundavit ecclesiam sanctam Cairce (Cainec), quam
to
134 141,
Irish text.
It may be compared, likewise,
are thus — family commemorated,
:
tenuit familia Clonoauis. " Colgan thinks he may have been St. Morthennis, or Do- morthennis—also called Orthinus, Bishop— who is venerated on the nth of January.
"* Colgan states, that he was venerated, on the 30th of September, at Cluain Ac- cair.
"s Instead of Justianus mac Hy-Daimene,
Mac-hua Daimene, that is, a person belong- ing to the family of Daimene, who was no other than St. Endeus of Arran, venerated
on the 21st of March. See, also, Colgan's Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Appendix
quamplurimi. " By these words, it is reason- able to presume, that Tirechan alludes, not to the whole nation, but merely to St.
"^ However, Ussher seems to speak of
cap. xvii. , p. 950. But Dr. Lanigan thinks, it cannot be admitted, that there were then about eighty bishops in Ireland.
"' When quoting Tirechan's Catalogue, Colgancallsthemsimplydisciples; and,he mentions the festival days of several among
them, yet without giving them the title of
of this is to be in the seen,
copy
'" At fol. 119, a. col. 2, line 42.
'" At fol. 44 b. col. 3, line 36.
"3 Also, in the Royal Irish Academy's
Manuscript, classed 23. D. 9. , at p. 6.
March 17. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 761
" The family of Patrick"' of the prayers, who had good Latin,
I remember ; no feeble court [were they], their order, and their names.
Sechnall,"^ his bishop without fault; Mochta"9 after him his priest ;
Bishop Erc'3° his sweet-spoken judge p^ his champion, Bishop Mac
caeirthinn
;^32
Benen, his psalmist ;^33 and Coemhan,^34 his chamberlain ; Sinell*35 his bell-ringer, and Aithcen^36 his true cook ;
The priest Mescan,'37 without evil, his friend and his brewer ;
The priest Bescna,^38 sweet his verses, the chaplain of the son of Alp» rann.
His three smiths,'39 expert at shaping,'4° Macecht, LaebhaUj^i and rortchern. ^42
with the statement, in the Latin Tripartite Life, part iii. , chap, xcviii. , p. 167, and nn. 120 to 135, p. 188. See, also, MissCusack's
" Life of St. Patrick," &c. , p. 501.
"7 This poem is very incorrectly deci- phered and translated by Dr. O'Conor. His
errors are corrected in this edition of from a fuller and better copy, preserved in the Book of Lecan, fol. 44. b, and from a prose list of the twenty-four persons, consti- tuting the household of St. Patrick, prefixed to it. A list of the principal persons, men- tioned in his poem, is also given, in the Tri- partite Life of St. Patrick, lib, iii. , cap. 98, p. 167.
"* He is already mentioned, in Tirechan's list.
"' His feast is assigned, to the 24th of March.
'3° Bishop of Slane, and venerated on the 2nd of November.
Colgan, has been supplied from the Book of Lecan. Hischurch,notyetidentified,was situated, near the River Faughan, in the countyofLondonderry. TheIrishTripar- tite Life calls him, Cruimther Mesean, from Domhnach-Mescan, at Fochan, his brewer.
:
'3' The Irish Brehon.
Life calls him a
Fortchernus de Rath-aidne duo fabri ferra- rii. " However, Dr. O'Donovan thus corrects the text, on the of the
Tripartite
authority
Book of Lecan, inserting these words within brackets after Maccectus [—de Domnach- Arnoin et Sanctus Leobanus] qui, &c. He concludes: "et Sanctus Fortchernus de Rath-Semni, tres fabri ferrarii. " The Irish
^^^ Already alluded to, as Bishop of
Clogher. The Irish Tripartite Life calls him " St. Patrick's strong man. "
'33 Already alluded to as St. Benignus.
'^•^ His identity has not been discovered. In the Irish Tripartite Life, he is called Caemhan of Cill-Ruada, and St. Patrick's youth.
Tripartite Life has it : his three smiths,
Mac Cecht, Laeban from Domhnach-Laeb-
han (who made the Findfaithnech), and Fortchern in Rath-Adine.
'35 The Latin Life calls Tripartite
"1° The Irish Life has it, the Tripartite
it,
'3* In the Latin we read Tripartite Life,
him,
" Senellus de Killdareis, Campanarius. " smiths making the bells, i. e. , Mac Cecht,
The Irish Tripartite corresponds. In the
prose list, preserved in the Book of Lecan,
he is called, SinehL chiLli Aipf a Aifci|\e,
i. e. " Sinell of Killairis, his Ostiarius. " Eguis was venerated, on the 1st of June; and Perhaps, he is the same as the Senellus
Senior, or Sineal, said to have been vene- rated, at the 1 2th of January, or at the 12th
the other, on the 9th of August. Domhnach- Loebain was called Cill-Loebain, in Colgan's time, and it was a parish church, in the
of September. in our Calendars.
( ). ''. er saints, so called, are '
diocese of Clonfert.
Dr. O'Donovan iden-
"
'3* The Latin
"Athgenius de Li Ji-doninaich, coquus. " The Irish Tripartite corresponds. He is the patron saint of Badoney church, near Strabane, county of Tyrone.
'37 The Latin Tripartite Life calls him, ""
The Latin
'i
artite Life calls
him,
Tripartite
has
Sanctus Meschanus de Domnach [Mes-
cain] rius. "
"
tanctus Essa, Sanctus Biteus ac
"
juxta Fochmuine fluvium, Cervicia- The word in brackets, omitted by
"
dala, Sacellanus. " The church, called Domhnach-Dula, in the prose list of the Book of Lecan, was in the plain of Magh- dula, through which the Moyola river, in the county of Londonderry, flows. The Irish Tripartite Life has it, Cruimther Bescna, from Domhnach-Dala, his Mass-priest.
"
'39 The Latin Tripartite Life states,
Sanctus Maccectus de Domnach-leobain,
Sanctus Beschna prsesbyter de Domnach-
qui reliquiarium illud famosum Frim-faid-
heach nuncupatum fabricavit, et Sanctus
and Cuana, and Mac Fail.
'•' Two saints, called Leaban, are noted in
our Calendars. One St. Loeban of Ath-
tifies '"^
it,
as Killian.
Sanctus Fortchernus de Rath-aidne, faber ferrarius," but the Book of Lecan, in the prose list, has him of Rath Semhni. His festival was cele- brated, on the I ith of October, at Cill-Fort- chern, in Idrone, county of Carlow, and at
Trim, in the county of Meath.
'••3 Thus are they named, in the Latin Tri-
partite :
762
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March 17.
His three artificers/*^ of great endowment, Aesbuite,'^ Tairill/'^s and Tasach. '*^
His three embroiderers/*? not despicable, Lupaid, Erca, and Cruim- thiris. '*^
Odhran,'49 his charioteer, without blemish, Rodan,'5o son of Braga, his shepherd.
Ippis,'5i Tigris, and Erca, and Liamhain, with Eibeachta :
For them Patrick excelled in wonders, for them he was truly miraculous. Carniuch»52^^sthepriestthatbaptizedhim; German'53histutor,with-
out blemish.
The priest Manach,'54 of great endowment, was his man for supplying wood.
His sister's son'ss was Banban, of fame ; Martin'^^ his mother's brother.
Sanctus Tassa, tres fabri serarii, vasorumque
"
are called Aifpmice, Cai|m11, Ca^ac.
•** Colgan thinks this Essa a corruption for Ossa, or Ossan, as St. Patrick had a
disciple so called, at Trim.
'*5 This name is found only in Flann's
poem.
'* This was not Bishop Tassach of Ra-
holp, near Downpatrick, who administered the Viaticum to St. Patrick, but Assagh,
Bishop of Elphin, according to the Book of Armagh, in Sir William Betham's trans-
published by Colgan.
'50 Dr. O'Conor prints this Rochan. The
Latin Tripartite Life calls him, " Sanctus
Rodanus, Armentarius. " The Irish Tripar- that list is Flann's poem ; yet, here, they tite Life corresponds. In the prose list, in
In the prose list of the Book of Lecan, these are called efpiti, 131 ce, and Ca^An. The authority given for
sacrorum fabricatores.
:
lation. In the Irish Tripartite Life, we find says in a note " Omnes vita vetustiores
an account of the artificers making the dishes and reliquaries, and the altar chalices, viz. , Tassach, and Essa, and Bitiu.
eum appellant Gorniam. " In the copy of Flann's poem, preserved in the Book of
"
Lecan, the reading is :
'« " Sancta Lupita, Tigrida, et Cram- ]^o bAifc, i. e. Gornias the priest who bap-
theris textrices et sacrorum linteorum erant
confectrices, tite Life.
tized him. "
'53 All the Lives of Patrick agree, that St.
Germanus was his tutor. Colgan attempts
to show, that Patrick had been under his tui-
tion so early as the year 396 ; but, the acute
Dr. Lanigan clearly proves, that Patrick
could not have been under the direction of
St. German, before the year 418. See
"
Ecclesiastical History of Ireland," vol. i. , chap, iv. , sect, x. , p. 161.
'54 The Latin Tripartite Life calls him :
" Sanctus Monachus prassbyter focaris lig-
norumque provisor. " In the prose list, in
"
In the prose list in the Book of
according to the Latin Tripar-
are named thus
TiechA . 1. iupAi-o, 7 ei\c, ingen Xha^a, 7
C|\tnmche|\if, ie. Lupaid, and Ere, daughter of Dairi, and Crumtheris. " The Lupaid here mentioned was Lupita, Patrick's own sister. Ere, the daughter of Dairi, was no other than Ergnata, the daughter of Dairi, King of Oirther, who granted Armagh to Saint Patrick. Cmm- theris was a lady of royal birth, who lived in solitude, on the hill of Kenngobha, to the east of Armagh.
Lecan, they
:
-A c|M 0]\ui -
"
C]\uiin6eA]\ niAnAd A |:eA]\t)enihA connAig, i. e. Crumh- '<* The Irish Tripartite Life mentions ther Manach, his provider of wood. " The somewhat differently, those nuns, making Irish Tripartite Life has him, as Craimther Manach, his wood-man. 11 1^ ideuuiy does
the altar-cloths, viz. , Cochmass, and Tigris, and Lupait, and Darerca. And, again, it states, that St. Patrick's three embroiderers were Lupait, and Ere, daughter of Daire, and Cruimthiris, in Cenn-Gobha.
not seem to be clearly established.
'55 In the copy of Flann's poem, in the
'« Life calls him The Latin Tripartite
brother " " of fame. " [or cousin]
" Sanctus Odranus de Disert-Odrain in Hi- falgia, auriga," and the Irish Tripartite cor- responds. These perfectly agree with the
their existence to the errors of transcribers.
'5* In the Tripartite Life, it is stated, that Conchessa, St. Patrick's mother, was the sister or relative of St. Martin; "Con-
"
prose list, in the Book of Lecan : 0'0|\An
6 'OifeiAC Ot)|\Ain & §iIIa a]\a'6. " He is mentioned, in the Lives of St. Patrick, as
:
Neither name has been identified with true history ; and, it is more than probable, that both owe
the Book of Lecan, he is called " TlO'OAn a buACAlL"
'5' These are said to have been the five sisters
of St. Patrick ; but, Dr. Lanigan has attempted
to show, that St. Patrick had no real sisters
in Ireland ; and, he thinks, that these were
religious women, who were called his sisters,
in a spiritual, and not in a carnal, sense.
"
See his
vol. i. , chap, iii. , sect, xviii. , pp. 125, 126.
Ecclesiastical History of Ireland. "
'5* It is so printed, by Dr. O'Conor, who
the Book ofLecan, he is called "
"
biAA^Ai^x CO mblATi, i. e. Seannan was his
Book of Lecan, the reading is,
SeAnnAn a
Jo^miiaj' in t^aca^nc
March 17. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 763
Most sapient was the youth Mochonnoc,^s7 his hospitaller.
Cribri and Lasra,'58 Qf mantles, beautiful daughters of Gleaghrann.
Doorway of Temple-Patrick old Church, Inchagoill, County of Galway. Macraith the wise, and Erc,'S9—he prophesied in his three wills.
— the scribe of his school; the
Brogan,'^° priest Logha,'^!
his helms-
man,
chessa Ecbatii filia ex Francis oriur. da, et S. Martini sorer, seu cognata, ejus mater fuit. "—Lib. i. , cap. i. , p. 117.
'57 The Latin Tripartite Life has noticed :
" Sanctus Catanus prassbyter, et Ocanotus
prsesbyter duo hospitalarii, sive hospitum ministri. " The Irish Tripartite has it : Cruimther Catan, and Cruimther Ocan, his two waiters. In the prose list, in the Book of
"
CT\iiimceT\ CATxsn ^^'ooa, 7 C|\uiiTnce|\ TnbixogAii A t)A ^opnep ; i. e. Priest Cadan
of Tamlnghtard, and Priest Brogan, his two waiters. " The memory of St. Cadan, or Catanus, is still hekl in great veneration, in the parish of Tamlaghtard, or Ardm^gilli- gan, in the barony of Keenaght, and county of Londonderry. Colgan gives the Acts of Mochonnoc, at ilth February, and states, that he flourished, about A. D. 492 ; but. Dr. Lanigan shows, that he lived at a much later period. See his " Ecclesiastical His- tory of Ireland," vol. i. , chap, viii. , sect. XV. ,p. 425. TheBroganoftheproselist, in the Book of Lecan, is evidently intended for Brocan, or Brocanus. one of the nephews of St. Patrick, mentioned in the Latin Tri- partite Life. See pars, ii. , cap. ii. , lii. , pp. 129, 136.
'58 These are called Crebrea and Lassera, in the Tripartite Life, where it is stated,
that they were the daughters of Glerannus, son of Cumineus, and that they lived, at tlie church of Kill-Forclann, near Killala. See pars, ii. , cap. Ixxxvi. , p. 141. Dr. O'Conor,
with this evidence before him, translates Glea- "
ghrann,by candidse,"asifitwereanepithet of the virgins, and not their father's name.
'59 The text is
the copy in the Book of Lecan affords no clue to the correction of it.
'*° He was the of St. Brocanus, nephew
Patrick, mentioned by Jocelyn, in his Life of St. Patrick, chap. 50, and said to have been venerated, at the 8th of July, and at the 17th of . September,
'*'
In the copy of Flann's poem, in the Book of Lecan, he is called Ci\uiTnie]\ tugriA, which is more correct. His tomb-
stone is still preserved near Templepatrick, or Patrick's church, on the island of Insi-
Goili, in Lough Corrib, with the following
inscription: "tie lu5nAex)on mACc iine-
r>tieh, i. e. the stone of Lugna Don, son of
Lemenueh. " This inscription was discovered
by Dr. Petrie, who published z. facsimile of
"
it, in his
Round Towers of Ireland," part ii. , sect, iii. , subs, i. , p. 165. It is the oldest literal monument yet discovered in Ireland. It establishes the existence of Lughna, and Lemenueh, beyond dispute ; but, nothing of
Lecan, the reading is :
6 CAmtAccAin
clearly corrupt here,
and
Ecclesiastical Architecture and
764
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March 17.
It is not a thing unsung—and Machui'^' his true fosterson.
Good the man whose great family they were, to whom God gave a
crozier without sorrow
Chiefs with whom the bells are heard, a good family was the family of
Patrick.
May the Trinity,^^3 which is powerful over all, distribute to us the boon
of great love ;
The king who, moved by soft Latin, redeemed by Patrick's prayer. "'^
A list of St. Patrick's successors,^^5 in the See of Armagh, is extant,'^^ among ourIrishManuscripts. Thesenames,wehavealreadygiven,inapreviousnote.
Besides those disciples, enumerated in the foregoing lists, the following
are in St. Patrick's various Lives The Senior Kienan ^^7 persons noticed, : ;
Dichuo,''^^ Ross'^9 or Rus, Durtract'7° or Durthact, Niell,'? ! Eugenius,^^^ and Ailill,'73 brothers ; Loarn,'74 Bishop of Inreattan or Brettan ; Nessan,'73 Deacon of Mungarett ; Trian,'76 Bishop of Croebheach ; Winnoc,'77 Bishop ofRath-espuic; MaguilorMacaldus,'78BishopofMan; Albeus,'79Bishop
a similar antiquity has been discovered, to prove their relationship to the Irish Apostle.
The accompanying illustration of Temple- patrick was drawn on the spot, by William F. Wakeman, and transferred to the wood. It was engraved, by Mrs. Millard.
'*' He was St. Mochai, of Endrom, in
Loch Cuan, one of St. Patrick's earliest
converts, to whom he gave a copy of the Gospels, and what was called a Ministeir, or
at the 23rd of June.
**3 In the Book of Lecan, the poem of
—on St. Patrick's household, concludes Flann,
Setna, the pious, son of Corcran, &c. , &c.
"
Ussher quotes this poem, in
cap. xvii. , p. 89s, as written in very ancient Irish verses, giving a catalogue of St. Patrick's domestics, and as authority for the existence of a Senex Patricius, ceAn'o a
portable reliquary :
totond—it, et dedit ei Evangelium et Minis- teir. " Vita Sec. cap. 32. His feast occurs,
thus
:
" A. nimpit)! •pin le Vl^An-o, co \\^A pooh- ^A1C CAII inipAli,
Co mine ice]\ I'bAiiib niifie, &c niAichib r>A muinci|\e. "
* These " " are [saints]
Manuscript
of the Irish Royal
" eum ac Baptizavit
'^* After enumerating the four-and-twenty,
that were in orders with St. Patrick, the
Irish Life this is the number Tripartite says,
that were in the company of Joseph ; and, it was the number that had been allowed, at the table of the King of Cashel, down from the time of Fedhlimidh, son of Crimthann, i. e.
by Flann, that he may obtain reward without
doubt.
With meekness amongst the nobles of
implored
29th
heaven through the chiefs of this April.
family. "
Dr. O'Conor says, that he does not know whence the Four Masters copied this poem, It is not contained, in either of the Dublin copies, and Dr. O' Conor's printed copy of it is corrupted, to agree with his own idea of the meaning. The copy of Flann's poem, preserved in the Book of Lecan, fol. 44, b. , IS much better and more copious, and it contains the names of several officers of Patrick's household, not mentioned in Evin's list, or even in the prose list, prefixed to the
'7° Said to be of vfilndruim.
*? ' Said to have been of Kill-clethe.
'7' Said to be of Kill-clethe.
'73 Said to have been Archbishop of
Armagh, and venerated, on the 13th of
January.
'" A feast is assigned him at the nth of
September,
'« Venerated the 25th of July.
'7* Said to have been venerated, at the
23rd of March.
'77 Said to have been Uindic, of Tuigh*
netha, venerated on the 29th of August.
'7* His feast has been to the assigned,
25th of April.
'79 His feast is kept, on the 12th of Sep-
tember.
in the Book of such as Lecan,
poem itself,
Cromdumhan, his mucAnie, or swineherd ; his three builders, Caemhan, Cruithnech, and Luchraidh ; his three physicians, Sech- nan, Ogma, and Aitheraail ; his librarian,
;
who to died, according
|T\uichi i^enojXAch,
the Annals of Connaught. in the year 454.
the of the two King
'^5
See the
Academy, which is classed, 23. P. 16. fol. 99, b. See also the MS. , classed H. 2.