Reputed Feast of
Dubliterius
Fiond or Candi- Dus.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5
It is related, that he asked from the king a tract of land, and that he obtained the greater part of the province of Berroccense—now Berkshire.
There, with the consent of the king and his council, the pilgrim happily
founded a monastery. 9 Allusions are frequently made to this place, called Abbandun,'° pleasantly situated at the influx of the small river Ock, into the Thames," in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,"" and in other records, when noting allusions to that celebrated religious institute, called after St. Abban. Themonasterythereis saidtohavebeenfoundedbyCissa,'3fathertoIna,
236
'9 This worlc was printed at London, a. d. ie26.
="^ Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 126, 127.
Article hi—' Printed a. d. 1640.
^ See "Britannia," under the heading Attrebatii, p. 99, in the Amsterdam edition ofhis work, Anno clo loclix. , folio.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. , Mail xiii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 186.
autliority of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls, in two volumes. London, 1858, 8vo.
^ See ibid. , vol. i. , lib. i. , sect, v. , p, 2.
9 The old chronicler adds, "cui nomen Abbendoniam, vel a nomine suo vel a loci vocabulo, alliidenter imijosuit. Secundum enim idionia Hibernensium, ut ex relatione modernorum accepimus, Abbendon "mansio
i He said to have sent letters to Pope Elutherius, in the second ccntuiy, and to have been baptized, with nearly all his sub- jects. See Matthew of Paris '' Chronica Majora," edited by Henry Richard Luard, RLA. , vol. i. , pp. 129, 130.
s John Capgrave writes : " Summe Croni- cles sey this was in yere of oure Lord 165. " —"Chronicle of England," edited by Rev. Francis Charles Hingeston, B. A. , Etasvi. , p. 67.
vuli;ariter nuncupalur. " •' Historia Monas-
terii de Abingdon," vol. i. , lib. i. , sect, v. ,
pp. 2, 3.
'" It was a place of considerable import-
ance during the Saxon Heptarchy ; and OlTa, King of Mercia, had a palace there. See Charles Knight's "English Cyclopedia," c;eo;^ri)ihy. vol. i. , col. 15.
" See Lewis' •' Topographical Dictionary of England," vol. i. , p. 5.
'-See the edition of Benjamin Thorpe, vol. i. , Lulex of Places and Peoples, p.
'Seethe "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," ac- cording to the several original Authorities. Edited with a Translation and Notes, by 393.
Benjamin Thorpe, vol. i. , pp. 14, 15, and vol. ii. , p. 9.
^ This has been lately edited by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, M. A. , and published by
'^ See William Camden's " P. iitannia," p. 99, of the edition aheady quoted.
'< See William of . Malmesbury," De Ges- tis Ponlilicum Anglorum," edited by N. E.
Alibeni " interpreiaiur
;
secundum vero
idioma Anglorum. \bbendun "monsAbenni" is —
—
May 13. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
King of the West Saxons. '** The site selected was a very beautiful one, on the declivity of a hill. 's There, St. Abban collected a great number of monks, amounting it is said to three hundred or more. Over these, he presided as Abbot,'^ and as a father ; all his subjects yielding him love and obedience, under the sweet yoke of Christ. In his later years, and in hoary old age, the holymandesiredtorevisithisowndearlylovedland and,itwassoordered
;
by Providence, that he should return to it, still to edify all, by his pious course of living. In Ireland, too, he departed from the world, to reign happily withChrist. '7 InhisCatalogueofsomeIrishSaints,andquotingCamden,it is said, that Father Henry Fitz-simon enters a festival, for the Hermit Abbenus. ^^ Alreadyatthei6thofMarch,someallusionhasbeenmadeto him -'9 and, as we conceive, to another and to a distinct Irish saint, called Abban, Abbot of Magharnaidhe, whose feast has been set down for the same date. ^° It is possible, both may have been there confounded, by the Martyrologists; and, we may probably conclude, that St. Abban, the hermit of Abingdon, has only the 13th of May assigned as his distinctive festival. Fuller quaintly remarks, on the constant migrations of the early saints, that " most of these men seem to have been born under a Travelhng Planet; seldom having their education in the place of their nativity, ofltimes composed of Irish infancy, British breeding, and French preferment ; taking a coule in one country, a crozier in another, and a grave in a third; neither bred where born, nor bene- ficed where bred, nor buried where beneficed ; but wandering in several king- doms. " Such observations may be appended, in thus closing our brief notices of this holy hermit's little known history.
ArticleIV. St. Mochonna,ofDerry. ThenameofSt. Mochonna appears, in the published Martyrology of Tallagh,' at the 13th of May ; as also, in the Franciscan copy ^ of that Calendar. While the local appellation of Doire has been added to his name, by a later Calendarist, it does not appear to have been established, that such an etymon can be referable to the city on Lough F. oyle ; although, towards the end of the seventh century, a Mochonna, "antistes Dorensis," was present in a synod held at Tara. 3 It does not seem very certain, that the present saint can be distinguished from one of the same name, and whose feast occurs, at the 8th of March. 4 He is indifferently styled, Mochonna, or Daconna. s The Bollandists ^ barely notice him, at the
S. A. Hamilton, lib. ii. , sect. 88, p. 191.
'5 The local chionicler adds, " paulisper ultra villam qure nunc vocatur Suniggevvelle, inter duos rivulos amaenissimos, qui, locum ipsum quasi quendam sinum inter se conclu- dentes, gratum cernentibus proebent specta- culum et opportunum habitantibus subsi-
dium. "
'* The chronicler of Abingdon monastery
supposes, that Abban and his community be- longed to the Benedictine Order and rule.
licse Ibernice Compendium, " tomus i. , lib. i v. , cap. xii.
'9 See the Third Volume of this work, at that day, Art. x.
'7 See " Historia Monasterii de Abing- B. D. , D. D. , vol. iii. , p. 928.
don," vol. i. , lib. i. , sect, v. , p. 3. The "* See notices of St. Mochonna, of Derry-
chronicler states, that his information has been derived from earlier records of his monastery, sect, liii. , p. 120, and lib. ii. , p. 443.
'^ His name or feast is not to be found, however, in that List furnished to O'SuUevan Beare, and printed in his " Historic Catho-
Disart of Mochonna, at this date, in the Third Volume, at Art. xv.
s See Colgan's "Acta Sanctorum Hiber- nire," Martii viii. , pp. 565, 566.
* See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. , Mail xiii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 186.
*° See ibid. , Art. ii.
Article iv. —' p. xxiv.
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly,
^ Here it is given as tflochonnAe.
^ in 697, by Flann Finn. See " A Die- tionary of Christian Biography," &c. , edited by William Smith, LL. D. , and Henry Wace,
237
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to the I St of July.
126, 127. — Article v.
——
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [I^Iay 13.
13thofMay. TheCainAdhamhnainstates,thatMochonna,ofDoire,was one of those saints, whom Adamnan ^ found as security, to free Irish women from every slavery, and from every distress, in which they were. According to the Martyrology of Donegal,^ veneration was given, on this day, to Mochonna, of Doire.
Article V. Reputed Festival of St. Moling Luachra. \_Sa>e? iih Century. '] The death of St. Moling Luachra is set down at a. d. 696, in the Annals of the Four Masters,' at the 13th of May, although his chief
feast is assigned to the 17th of June. " His Life will be given, at this latter date.
Aritcle VL—Reputed Feast of St. Servax, or St. Ser^anus, Apostle of the Orkneys, at Pomona. [Fiflh Century. '] A festival is set down, at the 13th of INLiy, by Dempster,' for St. Servan, the Apostle,^ at Pomona, the largest of the Orkney Islands, He is said to have flourished, a. d. 440. 3 The oldest Irish documents make him aPict, by the mother's side. His mother is said, also, to have been Alma, daughter of the Cruithne King
; while his father is called Pore, King of Canaan of Egypt,* accord- ing to the Tract, ascribed to St. ^ngus the Culdee, on the Mothers of the Irish Saints. 5 It is stated, by John Lesley,^ following the authority of Boece,7 that he had been sent by St. Palladius,^ to preach
the Gosple there ; but, as the Bollandists 9 could not find the name of
Serseanus inscribed, on the older Martyrologies, they preferred waiting until
the 6th of July afforded them an opportunity for introducing the Acts of St.
Palladius, in which Serseanus might receive consideration, as being a contem-
porary and a disciple. However, his feast has been more generally ascribed
'°
Article VII.
Reputed Feast of Dubliterius Fiond or Candi- Dus. At the 13th of May, the Bollandists ' have an entry of this feast, and quote for it the Martyrology of Tallagh. " The Bollandists remark, that a Dublitirius, Abbot of Clonenagh, in the diocese of Leighlin, and in the terri- tory of Leix, died a. d. 927. 3 But, they would not undertake to identify him
7 See his Life, at the 23rd of Septem- ber.
^ Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
s gee Rev. Dr. Reeves' " Culdees of the British Islands," p. 124.
* In " De Rebus Gestis Scotorum," lib. iv. , p. 157.
" See Bellenden's Boece, vol. i. . Book vii. , chap. 18, p. 286.
^ See his Life, at the 6th of July.
' See "Acta S. mclorum," tomus iii. , Maii xiii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 187.
' See Dr. O'Donovan's edi- lion, vol. i. , pp. 298, 299.
' See n. (x), iHd.
Article vi. —' In his " Menologium Scoticum " thus: "In Pomona Oicadum maxima Servani Apostoli. K. "
" See Bishop Forbes' " Kalendars of Scot- tish Saints," p. 199.
3 According to Dempster, in his "Ilistoria Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum," tomus ii. , lib. xvii. , num. 1030, p. 574.
* A Manuscript, in Archbishop Marsh's
Library, Dublin, states, that he was miracu- h. is "Dubliter ocus. " Seep. xxiv. The lously born of Obeth, King of Canaan, Franciscan copy has tJublicep p'''"^* ^^ ^his and of Alpia, daughter to the King of date.
Arabia. 3 jp the Annales Ultonienses, the death
'"See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of Scottish Saints," pp. 445 to 447.
Article vii. —' See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. , Maii xiii. Among the pretermitted festivals, p. 186.
' The published copy of Rev. Dr. Kelly
Art. iii. — Article X.
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May 13. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 239
with the person here recorded. They observe, however, that another holy man, bearing the same name, was commemorated, at the 15th of of May.
. Article VIII. Reputed Feast of St. Dvmpna, Virgin, and of St. Gerebern,Belgium, AccordingtoSaussay,inhisGalHcMartyrology,the feast of these saints was observed, on the 13th of May, at Gheel, in Brabant. However, other calendarists refer their chief festival, to the 15th of this month,' astheBollandists= observe.
Article IX. St. or the Blessed Michomeris. At the 13th of May, Colgan appears to have intended writing the Acts of a Blessed Michome- ris, as we find from the posthumous list of his Manuscripts. We cannot dis- cover, whether or not, he should be identified with that St. Michomer, or Michomores, Confessor, of Tornodor, in Gallic Campania, whose feast has been assigned to the 30th of April. '
Article X. St. Carthagius, or Carthacus. In the anonymous catalogue, published by O'SuUevan Beare,' we find St. Carthagius entered at the 13th of May. This, however, can only be regarded as the vigil, for his proper festival. The Carthusian Martyrology and Henry Fitzsimon place St. Karthagius, Bishop, at the same date. ^" Also, is he noticed by the Bollan- dists,3whorefertoGreven,Canisius,Fcrraiius,andFitz-simon; whilethey relegate his Acts, to the day following.
Article XI. Feast of Saints Teracus and Probus. —The 12th of May is set down in the Feilire' of St. ^ngus, as the festival for Saints Teracus and Probus. These seem to have suffered martyrdom, with several other companions, at Alexandria;^ although elsewhere, except in the Tallagh
of Dublittir, priest of Armagh, crowned with martyrdom by the Gentiles, is entered at a. D. 922 al. 923. See Dr. O'Conor's "Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores," tomus iv. , p. 255.
Dr. Whitley Stokes: "The holy family of Teracus and Probus after paths (of this world). After long bitter crosses, six persons and six hundred. "—"Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy," vol. i. , parti. On the Calendar of Oengus, p. Ixxix.
^ The scholiast on St. ^ngus has a note on noebiiniiiice]\ Ce]\<\ci, as follows, "i. in Alexandria pasi sunt. " The commentator had a different version of the Feilire, from that found in the " Leabhar Breac " which in a note, he thus introduces, lAyvi^eyvbch- pocliAib fii\Aib feifei\ Ay\ fe cecAib. uelp'c
Cige^MiAcli ^o]:epu^\
I'epuy^ a^a . m. ceuAib . 1. CijeiMiAcli t)<Mi\che.
Article viii. —^ same day.
See their Lives, at the
* See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. , Mail xiii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 187. —
Article ix. ' See his Acts, in the Fourth Volume of this work, at that date,
' See " Historias Catholics Ibernias Compendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. ,
cap. xi. , p. 50.
^ See ibid. , cap. xii. , p. 55.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. ,
. . .
The foregomg is thus translated, by Dr.
Maii xiii. jg-
Among the pretermitted saints,
,
,,1
t^
Article xi. — '
copy we find :— ^'
In the " Leabhar Breac "
Whitley Stokes :-" After long bitter crosses, six on six hundreds.
Or thus :—
. . Tigernach thou shouldst know, Six on six hundreds. "
i-e-t^ Tigernach of Bairche. —See ibid. , p. Ixxxvi.
^ See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. ,
tloebnnnnceTA CenAci
Pl^oio^? ,^ {. -^ITt"^;,^ lA]\l'e|\bch|\OCnA1D f1^^A1b
. ui. ei\ A|\. «i, c. Aib. ThisstanzaisthustranslatedintoEnglish,by
—
^40 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [May 14.
Martyrology, we do not find tlieir names recorded in other ancient Calendars. Different are the names of those Martyrs of Alexandria, noted by the Bollan- dists,3 at this date ; and, among them are two unnamed, who might probably be Teracus and Probus. '*
ArticleXII. ReputedFeastofSj". Motomagus. IntheCatalogue of some Irish Saints, it is stated, that Father Henry Fitz-simon sets down Motomagus ;' and, he states, that in his Martyrology, Canisius has placed him,atthei8thofMay. ^ However,Fitz-simoncorrectsthisstatement,and refers his feast to the 13th of March; by which, the Bollandists 3 think, he means St. Mochoemogus,* whose Life belongs to that date.
jfdurtffntl) Hap of iiflaj)*
ARTICLE I. —ST. CARTHAGE, OR MOCHUDDA, BISHOP. ACUUT, AND PATRON, OF ITSMORE.
ISIXTII AND SEVENTH CENTURIES. \ CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION—ACTS OF ST. MOCHUDDA OR CARTHAGE—PROGNOSTICATION REGARD- ING HIM—HIS PARENTAGE AND lilRTH—HIS YOUTH AND EARLY VOCATION TO THE CLERICAL STATE—EDUCATED BY ST. CARTHAGE THE ELDER—ST. MOCHUDDA BECOMES A PRIEST—HE SETTLES DOWN AT A PLACE CALLED KELLTULACH, BUT SOON HE LEAVES IT—HE VISITS ST. COMGALL AT BANGOR.
'^"T^'IIE history of St. Carthage Junior, or St. Mochuda, is one of singular
interest. Thisholymanexcelledbothinlearningandinpiety. That
J_ —even of legend over- he was a popular saint is proved from the records
colouring—with which his memory has been transmitted to us. But, no question remains in doubt, that while he lived, the right rule of Faith and dis- ciplinewasspread,throughhispersonalzealandlabours. Thisholysuperior, exact in all the duties of his sacred calling, as being to give an account one day to that great Master, who has allotted to each one of us our respective station, among his numerous family of Christians, in every age and clime. Especially, the saints were accustomed, to consecrate the beginning and end of each day, and they would not allow their worldly concerns, to interfere with or prevent
Maii xiii. De Sanctis Martyribus Alexan- drinis Aplirodisio, Agrippa, Sabino, Giiso, I. ucio, Cyrilla, Cridvla, Juviuo, ct aliis duo- bus, p. 202.
' So has Dempster in his Menology. See Bishop Forbes' " Kalendars of Scottish Saints," p. 200. Also, he is noticed by Demp- ster, in his " Ilistoria Eccle-iastica Gentis
"• Tiiis is apparent, by reference to the Scotorum," tomus ii. , Ub. xii. , num. 897, Franciscan copy of the Tallagh Martyr- p.
founded a monastery. 9 Allusions are frequently made to this place, called Abbandun,'° pleasantly situated at the influx of the small river Ock, into the Thames," in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,"" and in other records, when noting allusions to that celebrated religious institute, called after St. Abban. Themonasterythereis saidtohavebeenfoundedbyCissa,'3fathertoIna,
236
'9 This worlc was printed at London, a. d. ie26.
="^ Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 126, 127.
Article hi—' Printed a. d. 1640.
^ See "Britannia," under the heading Attrebatii, p. 99, in the Amsterdam edition ofhis work, Anno clo loclix. , folio.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. , Mail xiii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 186.
autliority of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls, in two volumes. London, 1858, 8vo.
^ See ibid. , vol. i. , lib. i. , sect, v. , p, 2.
9 The old chronicler adds, "cui nomen Abbendoniam, vel a nomine suo vel a loci vocabulo, alliidenter imijosuit. Secundum enim idionia Hibernensium, ut ex relatione modernorum accepimus, Abbendon "mansio
i He said to have sent letters to Pope Elutherius, in the second ccntuiy, and to have been baptized, with nearly all his sub- jects. See Matthew of Paris '' Chronica Majora," edited by Henry Richard Luard, RLA. , vol. i. , pp. 129, 130.
s John Capgrave writes : " Summe Croni- cles sey this was in yere of oure Lord 165. " —"Chronicle of England," edited by Rev. Francis Charles Hingeston, B. A. , Etasvi. , p. 67.
vuli;ariter nuncupalur. " •' Historia Monas-
terii de Abingdon," vol. i. , lib. i. , sect, v. ,
pp. 2, 3.
'" It was a place of considerable import-
ance during the Saxon Heptarchy ; and OlTa, King of Mercia, had a palace there. See Charles Knight's "English Cyclopedia," c;eo;^ri)ihy. vol. i. , col. 15.
" See Lewis' •' Topographical Dictionary of England," vol. i. , p. 5.
'-See the edition of Benjamin Thorpe, vol. i. , Lulex of Places and Peoples, p.
'Seethe "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," ac- cording to the several original Authorities. Edited with a Translation and Notes, by 393.
Benjamin Thorpe, vol. i. , pp. 14, 15, and vol. ii. , p. 9.
^ This has been lately edited by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, M. A. , and published by
'^ See William Camden's " P. iitannia," p. 99, of the edition aheady quoted.
'< See William of . Malmesbury," De Ges- tis Ponlilicum Anglorum," edited by N. E.
Alibeni " interpreiaiur
;
secundum vero
idioma Anglorum. \bbendun "monsAbenni" is —
—
May 13. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
King of the West Saxons. '** The site selected was a very beautiful one, on the declivity of a hill. 's There, St. Abban collected a great number of monks, amounting it is said to three hundred or more. Over these, he presided as Abbot,'^ and as a father ; all his subjects yielding him love and obedience, under the sweet yoke of Christ. In his later years, and in hoary old age, the holymandesiredtorevisithisowndearlylovedland and,itwassoordered
;
by Providence, that he should return to it, still to edify all, by his pious course of living. In Ireland, too, he departed from the world, to reign happily withChrist. '7 InhisCatalogueofsomeIrishSaints,andquotingCamden,it is said, that Father Henry Fitz-simon enters a festival, for the Hermit Abbenus. ^^ Alreadyatthei6thofMarch,someallusionhasbeenmadeto him -'9 and, as we conceive, to another and to a distinct Irish saint, called Abban, Abbot of Magharnaidhe, whose feast has been set down for the same date. ^° It is possible, both may have been there confounded, by the Martyrologists; and, we may probably conclude, that St. Abban, the hermit of Abingdon, has only the 13th of May assigned as his distinctive festival. Fuller quaintly remarks, on the constant migrations of the early saints, that " most of these men seem to have been born under a Travelhng Planet; seldom having their education in the place of their nativity, ofltimes composed of Irish infancy, British breeding, and French preferment ; taking a coule in one country, a crozier in another, and a grave in a third; neither bred where born, nor bene- ficed where bred, nor buried where beneficed ; but wandering in several king- doms. " Such observations may be appended, in thus closing our brief notices of this holy hermit's little known history.
ArticleIV. St. Mochonna,ofDerry. ThenameofSt. Mochonna appears, in the published Martyrology of Tallagh,' at the 13th of May ; as also, in the Franciscan copy ^ of that Calendar. While the local appellation of Doire has been added to his name, by a later Calendarist, it does not appear to have been established, that such an etymon can be referable to the city on Lough F. oyle ; although, towards the end of the seventh century, a Mochonna, "antistes Dorensis," was present in a synod held at Tara. 3 It does not seem very certain, that the present saint can be distinguished from one of the same name, and whose feast occurs, at the 8th of March. 4 He is indifferently styled, Mochonna, or Daconna. s The Bollandists ^ barely notice him, at the
S. A. Hamilton, lib. ii. , sect. 88, p. 191.
'5 The local chionicler adds, " paulisper ultra villam qure nunc vocatur Suniggevvelle, inter duos rivulos amaenissimos, qui, locum ipsum quasi quendam sinum inter se conclu- dentes, gratum cernentibus proebent specta- culum et opportunum habitantibus subsi-
dium. "
'* The chronicler of Abingdon monastery
supposes, that Abban and his community be- longed to the Benedictine Order and rule.
licse Ibernice Compendium, " tomus i. , lib. i v. , cap. xii.
'9 See the Third Volume of this work, at that day, Art. x.
'7 See " Historia Monasterii de Abing- B. D. , D. D. , vol. iii. , p. 928.
don," vol. i. , lib. i. , sect, v. , p. 3. The "* See notices of St. Mochonna, of Derry-
chronicler states, that his information has been derived from earlier records of his monastery, sect, liii. , p. 120, and lib. ii. , p. 443.
'^ His name or feast is not to be found, however, in that List furnished to O'SuUevan Beare, and printed in his " Historic Catho-
Disart of Mochonna, at this date, in the Third Volume, at Art. xv.
s See Colgan's "Acta Sanctorum Hiber- nire," Martii viii. , pp. 565, 566.
* See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. , Mail xiii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 186.
*° See ibid. , Art. ii.
Article iv. —' p. xxiv.
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly,
^ Here it is given as tflochonnAe.
^ in 697, by Flann Finn. See " A Die- tionary of Christian Biography," &c. , edited by William Smith, LL. D. , and Henry Wace,
237
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to the I St of July.
126, 127. — Article v.
——
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [I^Iay 13.
13thofMay. TheCainAdhamhnainstates,thatMochonna,ofDoire,was one of those saints, whom Adamnan ^ found as security, to free Irish women from every slavery, and from every distress, in which they were. According to the Martyrology of Donegal,^ veneration was given, on this day, to Mochonna, of Doire.
Article V. Reputed Festival of St. Moling Luachra. \_Sa>e? iih Century. '] The death of St. Moling Luachra is set down at a. d. 696, in the Annals of the Four Masters,' at the 13th of May, although his chief
feast is assigned to the 17th of June. " His Life will be given, at this latter date.
Aritcle VL—Reputed Feast of St. Servax, or St. Ser^anus, Apostle of the Orkneys, at Pomona. [Fiflh Century. '] A festival is set down, at the 13th of INLiy, by Dempster,' for St. Servan, the Apostle,^ at Pomona, the largest of the Orkney Islands, He is said to have flourished, a. d. 440. 3 The oldest Irish documents make him aPict, by the mother's side. His mother is said, also, to have been Alma, daughter of the Cruithne King
; while his father is called Pore, King of Canaan of Egypt,* accord- ing to the Tract, ascribed to St. ^ngus the Culdee, on the Mothers of the Irish Saints. 5 It is stated, by John Lesley,^ following the authority of Boece,7 that he had been sent by St. Palladius,^ to preach
the Gosple there ; but, as the Bollandists 9 could not find the name of
Serseanus inscribed, on the older Martyrologies, they preferred waiting until
the 6th of July afforded them an opportunity for introducing the Acts of St.
Palladius, in which Serseanus might receive consideration, as being a contem-
porary and a disciple. However, his feast has been more generally ascribed
'°
Article VII.
Reputed Feast of Dubliterius Fiond or Candi- Dus. At the 13th of May, the Bollandists ' have an entry of this feast, and quote for it the Martyrology of Tallagh. " The Bollandists remark, that a Dublitirius, Abbot of Clonenagh, in the diocese of Leighlin, and in the terri- tory of Leix, died a. d. 927. 3 But, they would not undertake to identify him
7 See his Life, at the 23rd of Septem- ber.
^ Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
s gee Rev. Dr. Reeves' " Culdees of the British Islands," p. 124.
* In " De Rebus Gestis Scotorum," lib. iv. , p. 157.
" See Bellenden's Boece, vol. i. . Book vii. , chap. 18, p. 286.
^ See his Life, at the 6th of July.
' See "Acta S. mclorum," tomus iii. , Maii xiii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 187.
' See Dr. O'Donovan's edi- lion, vol. i. , pp. 298, 299.
' See n. (x), iHd.
Article vi. —' In his " Menologium Scoticum " thus: "In Pomona Oicadum maxima Servani Apostoli. K. "
" See Bishop Forbes' " Kalendars of Scot- tish Saints," p. 199.
3 According to Dempster, in his "Ilistoria Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum," tomus ii. , lib. xvii. , num. 1030, p. 574.
* A Manuscript, in Archbishop Marsh's
Library, Dublin, states, that he was miracu- h. is "Dubliter ocus. " Seep. xxiv. The lously born of Obeth, King of Canaan, Franciscan copy has tJublicep p'''"^* ^^ ^his and of Alpia, daughter to the King of date.
Arabia. 3 jp the Annales Ultonienses, the death
'"See Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of Scottish Saints," pp. 445 to 447.
Article vii. —' See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. , Maii xiii. Among the pretermitted festivals, p. 186.
' The published copy of Rev. Dr. Kelly
Art. iii. — Article X.
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with the person here recorded. They observe, however, that another holy man, bearing the same name, was commemorated, at the 15th of of May.
. Article VIII. Reputed Feast of St. Dvmpna, Virgin, and of St. Gerebern,Belgium, AccordingtoSaussay,inhisGalHcMartyrology,the feast of these saints was observed, on the 13th of May, at Gheel, in Brabant. However, other calendarists refer their chief festival, to the 15th of this month,' astheBollandists= observe.
Article IX. St. or the Blessed Michomeris. At the 13th of May, Colgan appears to have intended writing the Acts of a Blessed Michome- ris, as we find from the posthumous list of his Manuscripts. We cannot dis- cover, whether or not, he should be identified with that St. Michomer, or Michomores, Confessor, of Tornodor, in Gallic Campania, whose feast has been assigned to the 30th of April. '
Article X. St. Carthagius, or Carthacus. In the anonymous catalogue, published by O'SuUevan Beare,' we find St. Carthagius entered at the 13th of May. This, however, can only be regarded as the vigil, for his proper festival. The Carthusian Martyrology and Henry Fitzsimon place St. Karthagius, Bishop, at the same date. ^" Also, is he noticed by the Bollan- dists,3whorefertoGreven,Canisius,Fcrraiius,andFitz-simon; whilethey relegate his Acts, to the day following.
Article XI. Feast of Saints Teracus and Probus. —The 12th of May is set down in the Feilire' of St. ^ngus, as the festival for Saints Teracus and Probus. These seem to have suffered martyrdom, with several other companions, at Alexandria;^ although elsewhere, except in the Tallagh
of Dublittir, priest of Armagh, crowned with martyrdom by the Gentiles, is entered at a. D. 922 al. 923. See Dr. O'Conor's "Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores," tomus iv. , p. 255.
Dr. Whitley Stokes: "The holy family of Teracus and Probus after paths (of this world). After long bitter crosses, six persons and six hundred. "—"Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy," vol. i. , parti. On the Calendar of Oengus, p. Ixxix.
^ The scholiast on St. ^ngus has a note on noebiiniiiice]\ Ce]\<\ci, as follows, "i. in Alexandria pasi sunt. " The commentator had a different version of the Feilire, from that found in the " Leabhar Breac " which in a note, he thus introduces, lAyvi^eyvbch- pocliAib fii\Aib feifei\ Ay\ fe cecAib. uelp'c
Cige^MiAcli ^o]:epu^\
I'epuy^ a^a . m. ceuAib . 1. CijeiMiAcli t)<Mi\che.
Article viii. —^ same day.
See their Lives, at the
* See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. , Mail xiii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 187. —
Article ix. ' See his Acts, in the Fourth Volume of this work, at that date,
' See " Historias Catholics Ibernias Compendium," tomus i. , lib. iv. ,
cap. xi. , p. 50.
^ See ibid. , cap. xii. , p. 55.
3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. ,
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The foregomg is thus translated, by Dr.
Maii xiii. jg-
Among the pretermitted saints,
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Article xi. — '
copy we find :— ^'
In the " Leabhar Breac "
Whitley Stokes :-" After long bitter crosses, six on six hundreds.
Or thus :—
. . Tigernach thou shouldst know, Six on six hundreds. "
i-e-t^ Tigernach of Bairche. —See ibid. , p. Ixxxvi.
^ See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. ,
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Pl^oio^? ,^ {. -^ITt"^;,^ lA]\l'e|\bch|\OCnA1D f1^^A1b
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Martyrology, we do not find tlieir names recorded in other ancient Calendars. Different are the names of those Martyrs of Alexandria, noted by the Bollan- dists,3 at this date ; and, among them are two unnamed, who might probably be Teracus and Probus. '*
ArticleXII. ReputedFeastofSj". Motomagus. IntheCatalogue of some Irish Saints, it is stated, that Father Henry Fitz-simon sets down Motomagus ;' and, he states, that in his Martyrology, Canisius has placed him,atthei8thofMay. ^ However,Fitz-simoncorrectsthisstatement,and refers his feast to the 13th of March; by which, the Bollandists 3 think, he means St. Mochoemogus,* whose Life belongs to that date.
jfdurtffntl) Hap of iiflaj)*
ARTICLE I. —ST. CARTHAGE, OR MOCHUDDA, BISHOP. ACUUT, AND PATRON, OF ITSMORE.
ISIXTII AND SEVENTH CENTURIES. \ CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION—ACTS OF ST. MOCHUDDA OR CARTHAGE—PROGNOSTICATION REGARD- ING HIM—HIS PARENTAGE AND lilRTH—HIS YOUTH AND EARLY VOCATION TO THE CLERICAL STATE—EDUCATED BY ST. CARTHAGE THE ELDER—ST. MOCHUDDA BECOMES A PRIEST—HE SETTLES DOWN AT A PLACE CALLED KELLTULACH, BUT SOON HE LEAVES IT—HE VISITS ST. COMGALL AT BANGOR.
'^"T^'IIE history of St. Carthage Junior, or St. Mochuda, is one of singular
interest. Thisholymanexcelledbothinlearningandinpiety. That
J_ —even of legend over- he was a popular saint is proved from the records
colouring—with which his memory has been transmitted to us. But, no question remains in doubt, that while he lived, the right rule of Faith and dis- ciplinewasspread,throughhispersonalzealandlabours. Thisholysuperior, exact in all the duties of his sacred calling, as being to give an account one day to that great Master, who has allotted to each one of us our respective station, among his numerous family of Christians, in every age and clime. Especially, the saints were accustomed, to consecrate the beginning and end of each day, and they would not allow their worldly concerns, to interfere with or prevent
Maii xiii. De Sanctis Martyribus Alexan- drinis Aplirodisio, Agrippa, Sabino, Giiso, I. ucio, Cyrilla, Cridvla, Juviuo, ct aliis duo- bus, p. 202.
' So has Dempster in his Menology. See Bishop Forbes' " Kalendars of Scottish Saints," p. 200. Also, he is noticed by Demp- ster, in his " Ilistoria Eccle-iastica Gentis
"• Tiiis is apparent, by reference to the Scotorum," tomus ii. , Ub. xii. , num. 897, Franciscan copy of the Tallagh Martyr- p.
