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4 His festival is referred, to the iSth of
November.
5 His feast is placed, at the 17th of No-
vember. See ibid. nn. 63, 64.
ergo Conalli filia fuit S. Carecha Dergaiiien- sis & soror S. Endei Aranniensis, & ipsa quiescit in Cluainboireann in regione Imanije ad ripam fluminis Sinennii. "
* The reader is also referred to the Com- mentator on St. ^ngus, at the 31st of July, and to St. . (Engus the Culdee, in his treatise.
Vita S.
' His feast was held, on the 3rd of July,
Quarta
Patricii,
^ Supposed to be venerated, as Moninna,
at the 6th of
See her Life, at the 1st of January,
March 9. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 279
gan's typographical errors ; the 9th of March being set down, for the 9th of February, where notices of her are already given.
ArticleX. —St. Dioma,Dima,orDimma. Themerename,Dimmae,
occurs, in the Martyrology of Tallagh,' at the 9th of March. Marianus O'Gorman has Dima, at this date, as the BoUandists take care to observe. '
In the Martyrology of Donegal,3 at this day, we find simply recorded, Dioma. It is added, that there is a Dioma, a Bishop, and a son of Senach, descended from the race of Eochaidh Fionn-fuathairt, from which family Brighit* derives her pedigree. He is said to have been venerated, either at this date, or at the 22nd of this same month. s Likewise, under the head of Teach-Dioma,^ Duald Mac Firbis enters, Bishop Dioma, son of Senach, of the Fotharta, in Tech (or from Tech) Dioma. '
Article XI. —Festival of the Forty Martyrs of Sebasten, Lesser
Armenia. \Fourth Century^ At the 9th of March, as we learn from the
"'
Feilire" of St. ^ngus, the Irish Church celebrated the festival of forty
Martyrs. The BoUandists notice the festival of these Martyrs of Sebasten to have been so commemorated, until Pope Innocent X. ' caused it to be trans- ferred to the loth of this month, in order to make way for the Officium Duplex of St. Francisca Romana, Widow, whose feast is now held, on the 9th of March. 3 A full account of those various Martyrs, with their names, and notices about the discovery of their relics, will be found, in their great work, on the day succeeding,* when they are commemorated, with an Office, in the Roman Breviary. s
ArticleXII. —ReputedFestivalofSt. Senanus. \Fiftha7idSixth Centuries. '] The " Kalendarium Celticum," at the vii. Ides of March, corres- ponding with the 9th day, has F Seanain, or the Festival of Senanus. ^ He
"De Matribus Sanctorum Hibemiae," n. 49. See, Colgan's "Acta Sanctorum Hi- berniae," Januarii i. , n. 7, p. 3.
'
Article x. — Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly,
See Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. , Martii ix. Among the pretermitted saints,
2.
3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
"OiA cuAi^cAib ^^ 111101111 SIMAM ilbuc •ouo •oo^cliA.
Death of forty champions, "With a great host who had
been righteous,
For whom a joyous sun had
risen,
In a black dark place.
* He ruled from A. D. 1644 to 1655. See
Sir Harris Nicolas' "Chronology of His-
tory," p. 210.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. ,
Martii ix. Among the pretermitted saints.
p. 2.
4 See ibid. , Martii x. , De Sanctis XL.
Martyribus Sebastenis, &c. A ^previous commentary is given, in four sections ;
compendium of their martyrdom, translated into Latin from the Armenian language; Acts in three chapters, other Acts in four chapters ; the Oration of St. Basil, with an
p. xviii. *"
P-
72, 73-
* In a note, Dr. Todd says, at this
proper name: "Meaning here Brigid of Kildare ; who was of the race of Eochaidh Fionn-
fuaithairt. "
^
5 See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga,"
Appendix Quarta ad Acta S. Brigidse, cap. iii. , p. 613.
* Tills denomination appears, at present, to be obsolete.
'See "Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy," Irish MSS. Series, vol. i. , part i. , pp. 128, 129.
Artiole XI. —' The following extract,
from the Leabhar Breac copy, with its Eng- extract from Sozomen's History, pp. 12
lishtranslation,ha—sbeenfurnishedbyPro- to29.
fessor O'Looney
Pajs In Festo SS. Qua-
e. uii. TO,
xl. iiiile'o
Co mop ]-lo5 b<x fo^Achu
Mart. — draginta Semiduplex.
bAj-.
:
See "Breviarium
Romanum,"
s
Vema. Die x. Martii.
Article xii.
'
See Forbes' Bishop
28o LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[March 9.
seems to have been no other, than St. Senan, Abbot of Scattery Island, whose Life has been already recorded, at the previous day.
Article XIII. —St. Tosa, or Tossanus, of Droma Laidcinn, or, of Druim-Ladhgein. Tiie Bollandists' record Tossanus de Druim-Ladhgein, at the 9th of March. It is possible, his place may be identified with Drum-
^
line, a parish in the barony of Lower Bunratty, county of Clare.
have been Dmnilayne, in the parish of Moybolgue, barony of Lower Kells, and county of Meath. 3 Again, there is a Drumlaydan in the parish of
Templeport, barony of TuUyhaw, and county of Cavan. * According to the Martyrology of Tallagh,5 veneration was given to Tosa, of Droma Laidcinn, at the 9th of March.
Article XIV. —St. Colman, of Cluana Tibrinn, or Clontivrin, County of Fermanagh. The Bollandists' have a notice of Colmanus de Cluain Tibrinn, as recorded in the Irish Calendars, at this date. In the Martyrology of Tallagh,^ at the 9th of March, we find that a festival was celebrated,inhonourofColman,saidtohavebeenofCluanaTibrinn. This place is now known as Clontivrin,3 a townland in the parish of Clones, and in the barony of Clankelly, county of Fermanagh. It lies about one Irish mile west of Clones town. -* The ruins of a church were to be seen here, until a little after the commencement of the present century, when they were removed by a farrQer,5 who tilled the spot. Unfortunately, he destroyed every material trace of the ancient edifice. ^
Article XV. —Reputed Festival of a St. Kenneth, Kenzie, or Canice. The Irish Canicus or Canice is a name that corresponds with the Scotch Kenneth or Kenzie. According to Dempster,' there was a holy Bishop Kenneth, venerated in Glentanir, at the 9th of March. * The Bol- landists^ notice him, but state, that they attach no great degree of credit to Dempster's statements. In his History, we are unable to discover any special allusion to this Kenneth ; although, others having the like name are there noticed.
ArticleXVI. —St. Sillan,Sillanus,orSylvanus. Colgan'andthe Bollandists^ have allusion to a St. Sillenus, who is mentioned in an Irish Life
" Kalendars of Scottish Saints," pp. S3,
444.
Article Xlll. —'See "Acta Sancto-
rum," tomusii. , Martiiix. Among the pre- termitted saints, p. 2.
* It is described, on the "Ordnance Sur- vey Townland Maps for the County of Clare," Sheets 51, 61. The townland
is on Sheet
3 This place is shown, on the "Ordnance
3 Jt is noted, on the "Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Ferma- nagh," Sheet 40.
In the parish so called, barony of Dar-
"
proper
51.
Monaghan," Sheet 11.
s Named Stephenson,
* See Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals of the
Four Masters," v—ol. i. , n. (x), p. 342. Article xv. ' See " Menologium Sco-
"
ticum.
* See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of
Scottish Saints," pp. 194, 361.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. .
Martiiix. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 2.
Survey Townland Maps for the County of Meath," Sheet 5.
^ See " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Cavan," Sheets 9, 13.
s Edited Rev. —Dr. xviii. by Kelly, p.
Article xiv. 'See
rum," tomus ii. , Martii ix.
termitted saints, p. 2.
"Acta Sancto- Among the pre-
—
Hibernise," xv. Februarii. Supplementum
"
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xviii.
tree. It is described, on the
Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County o(
Article xvi.
•
See "Acta Sanctorum
Or, it may
March 9. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 281 ofSt. Berach. 3 Theformerofthoseauthoritiessupposes,thatSillenusmust
date, or on the 4th of — He present May.
either at the
is thought, ag—ain, to have been identical with Sillanus or Sylvanus called
have been
venerated,
and son of Neman. 4 A reference made also Silnanus a monk of Hy, is
to him, in Adamnan's Life of St. Coliimba. s The Martyrology of Tallagh^ inserts the name Sillan, without any further epithet, at the 9th of March.
Article XVIL—St. Bosa, Bishop of the Deiri, at York, England.
{Sci'enth Century? ^
From the work of Venerable Bede,' we obtain the chief
reliable accounts of this pious servant of God. The Bollandists^ and Rev.
S. Baring-Gould3 have given some notices of a distinguished and holy bishop,
who is variedly called, Bosa, Boza, Bossa or Boso. It is very possible, he was an Irishman, by birth, although this is not found recorded ; however, the received account, and circumstances of the time, render it not improbable. It is likely, he was born about or soon after the beginning of the seventh
century. He may have received his early training, at lona ; or, perhaps, his early and later education was completed at Lindisfarne. '^ He, F. adheduss and Eata^ were ordained by Theodoric,? Archbishop of York. ^ It is said, Bosa had been a monk,9 in the monastery of Streaneshaelch.
'° He observed the rule of St. Columba," and he seems to have acted as a priest, in con- nexionwiththeConventofSt. Hilda. " Helivedthereacontemporary,and he enjoyed the confidence and friendship of the renowned abbess. When Wilfrid,'^ Archbishop of York, had a difference with King Edfrid, and when he had been expelled from that See, a. d. 678,'* two bishops were substituted for him, Eata to rule over the province of the Bernici, and Bosa to rule over that of the Deiri. 's St. Bosa is enumerated as the fourth bishop of York,^^ and he is regarded, also, as the master of St. Acca,'? Bishop of Hexham. '^ It is to be observed, while Thomas Stubbes, or Stobeus,'9 Brompton, Dicetus,
Vitae S. Berachi, ex Codice MS. Hibemico Eccle^ise eiusdem Sancti, cap. vii. , p. 345, and n. 6, p. 348.
"See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. , Martii ix. Among the pretermitted saints,
farne, had a See in Sidnacestria, near Gains- brough. See, lib. iv. , cap. xii. , n. (d).
p,
2.
3 See his Life, at the 15th of February.
* See "Trias Thaumaturga. " Quarta ber.
Appendix ad Acta S. Columbse, cap. x. , num. 106, p. 492. Also, Quinta Appendix, cap. iii. , Sect, v. , p. 502.
5 See Rev. Dr. Reeves' edition, lib. i. ,
®
See Venerable Bede's "Historia Eccle-
cap. 41, p. 77, and lib. ii. , cap. 4, p. 108.
° '°
Edited by Rev—. Dr. Kelly, p. xviii.
"
Article xvii. See Monumenta His-
torica Britannica. " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, lib. iv. , cap. xii. , p. 222,
cap. xxiii. , p, 235, lib. v. , cap. iii. , p. 250, cap. vi. , n. (a), p. 253, cap. xx. , p. 274, cap. xxi/. , p. 285.
According to a Manuscript Kalendar of Saints, belonging to the Benedictine Order.
This places his festival, hoWever, at the 13th of January.
'
^ See "Acta Martii ix. De B. Bosa
Eboraci in Anglia. In eight paragraphs, pp. 10 to 12.
See her Life, at the i8th of November. '3 His feast occurs, at the 12th of October.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," p. " Monumenta Historica Britannica. "
Gentis Anglorum," lib. iv. , cap. xii,
Sanctorum," Episcopo
ii. , Deirorum
321,
'5 See Bede's " Historia Ecclesiastica
3 See "Lives of the Saints," vol. March ix. , p. 175.
iii. ,
'* See Arnold Wion's " lib. ii. , cap. xxii.
Lignum Vitae,"
* Probably under St. Aidan, who died August 31st, A. D. 651.
'7 His feast occurs, at the 30th of Novem- ber, and his death is recorded, under a. d,
5 He is called "
sul," by Venerable Bede, lib. iii. , xxviii. He, with other bishops of Lindis-
in Simeon of Durham's "Historia de
Gestis Regum Anglorum," p. 659, in " Mo- numenta Historica Britannia. "
Hrypensis
ecolesiae
prae- cap.
740,
tomus
'* See "The
"
206, 222.
Monumentata Historica Britannica," pp.
^ tober,
See notices of him, at the 26th of Oc-
7 His feast occurs, at the 19th of Septem-
siastica Gentis Scotorum," lib. iv. , cap. xii.
9 See Florence of Worcester's " Chroni-
con," in
''
Monumenta Historica Britan-
nica," at A. D. 677, p. 535.
" '^
See his Life, at the 9th of June.
282 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March io.
and other writers, treat of Bosa, as Archbishop, they do not rank him among the saints of York. Ahhough the Manuscript Benedictine Martyrology has
'°
John Wilson^' and Ferrarius^^ have it placed, at the 9th of March. The Bollandists infer, from Venerable Bede's statements, that St. Bosa died a. d. 686. Although this is the date given by Florence of Worcester ; yet, Edward Maihew, following a mistake in William of Malmesbury's work,^^ supposes the date for his death to be about a. d. 704, while Menard, taking the latter for a guide,
has about the year 705. Doubting if St. Bosa had a special office, recited in his honour, the Bollandists solely give him the title of Blessed.
CentI) Bap of Jilarrl)*
ARTICLE I. —ST. SILVESTER, OR SYLVESTRUS, BISHOP, AND EARLY APOSTLE OF IRELAND.
[FIFTH CENTURY,}
greater glory of Ireland's illustrious Apostle has diminished that of
the feast of St. Bosa, at the 13th of January, Jerome Porter,
THE
various in the same field of
missionary enterprise. Yet,
holy labourers,
we are not to suppose, that even great men can effect great results, without
theco-operationofsubordinates. Thisisveryclearlyexemplified,inthecase of St. Sylvester, who, as a companion of St. Palladius,' the Bishop, proceeded
from Rome to Ireland, where Gospel pioneers had already preceded both, in propagating the Faith of Christ. ^ St. Sylvester is generally understood to
have been a Roman, by birth, although his history is shrouded in obscurity. , So far as they can be made out, Colgan has published his Acts, for the loth day of March. 3 Again, at the same date, the Bollandists* have hesitatingly followed Colgan's arrangements, expressing a doubt, however, as to whether the Sylvester, Bishop, named at this date, in the Tallagh Martyrology, might be identified with the pre-Patrician missionary. It is stated, that Pope St. Celestine I. s had destined his Deacon, or Archdeacon, Palladius, and twelve
• other companions,^ to open a mission among the Gentiles of our western
'"See Florence of Worcester's " Chro- nicle," at a. d. 709, in " Monumenta His- torica Britannia," p. 540. However, in the Appendix to this Chronicle, Bosa is set down, as the third Bishop of York, at p. 625.
'9 He wrote in the fourteenth century a
Chronicle, relating the Acts of the Arch-
bishops of York.
'° See ** In Floribus Vitarum prsecipuo-
rum Sanctorum Angliae, Scotias et Hiber- nise. "
and of the Bernici, touching the case of Bishop Wilfrid, which is thought to be an
*' See " Martyrologium Anglicanum. " ** "
^ See " Acta Sanctonim Hibernise," x.
Martii. De S. Sylvestro S. Paladii Socio et
Hiberniae Apostolo, pp. 570, 571.
^ See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus ii. , Martii x. Among the pretermitted saints,
p. 2.
s His feast occurs, at the 6th of April.
xxxviii. , p. 123.
See Catalogus Generalis Sanctorum. " He cites the Tablets of the Church of York, for this statement.
" De Gestis Pontificum
* See "Trias Colgan's
*3 See lib.
Anglorum," where there is mention of an Epistle of Pope John to Ethelred, King of the Mercians, and to Alfrid, King of the Deiri
Thauiiiaturij. T. " Secunda Vita S. Patricii, cap. xxiv. , p. 13. Septima Vita S. Patricii, pars, i. , cap.
iii. ,
interpolation. —
'
Article July.
'
I.
See his
Life,
at the 6th of
See Rev. Dr. Lanigan's "Ecclesiastical History of Ireland," vol. i.