WEhave often before alluded to that pious fraternity of men, who were
so numerous in Ireland the of her Church, and during early ages
chief festival falls on the 1st of July, while his Acts are there written.
so numerous in Ireland the of her Church, and during early ages
chief festival falls on the 1st of July, while his Acts are there written.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8
, pp.
394, 395.
4 According to Dr. O'Donovan's correction of the date.
Article XII. —« Edited by Drs. Todd
and Reeves, pp. 208, 209.
copy we have the entry of 4r*un ep cluAm Cahi, at the Kalends of August.
2 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 208, 209.
3 See ibid. , pp. 354, 355.
4 See " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps
Sheets
s This is one of the most extensive parishes in Ireland, and it is shown on Sheets 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 37, 38, 49, 50, 51, 52, 62, 63,
"
by
Dr. Todd states at The Sons :
for the of County
Galway. "
37, 51.
Rev. Dr.
by
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[August i.
born probably after the beginning of the eighth century. He became abbot of Dearmhach or Durrow, in the King's County ; and after St. Columbkille" the Founder, he is the first abbot there of whom we find record. Cinneadh
died, a. d. 788,3 or recte 793. +
Article XII. —The Sons of Mocobha. The sons of Mocobha are commemorated by Marianus O'Gorman, at this date. We do not learn by what particular names they had been known. In like manner, the Mar-
'
tyrology of Donegal registers, at the 1st of August, as having veneration
paid to them, these sons 2 of Mocobha.
Article XIII. —Feast for a reputed St. Davin, County of Wex-
Davin's well—where a patron had been held on the 1st of August—may be seen. This is believed to have been the feast day of a local St. Davin, although his name does not occur in the Irish Calendars. 2
Article XIV. —St. Arun or Aruin, Bishop of Clonkeen. The
x
Martyrology of Tallagh mentions, that veneration was given, at the 1st of
August, to Arun, Bishop of Cluain-caoin. There are several Clonkeens in
different parts of Ireland. That most celebrated in our ecclesiastical annals
appearstohavebeenaplacesituatedintheCountyofLouth. Thename
of this saint is also at the same date, in the of 2 entered, Martyrology Donegal,
as Aruin, Bishop of Cluain-caoin. To this notice, we find appended the word (Aron), italicised and within brackets, in the table postfixed to the DonegalMartyrology. 3 Again,dowereadtheseremarksthussuperadded,
but in smaller type [Five miles from Athriagh (? Ath-na-riagh) is a wonder- working bell]. The only townland denomination we find corresponding is that of Athry,* in the parish of Moyrus, 5 and barony of Ballynahinch, County of Galway.
Article XV. —St. Columba or Colum, Bishop, and son of Riagail
or Rianghal. The name of Columba, Bishop, and called Mac Riagail, is
12
inserted in the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the 1st of August. According
totheO'Clerys,thisColumwasthesonofRianghal. Darerca,3sisterofSt.
1
ford. In Kildavin parish, barony of Forth, and County of Wexford, St.
' A note
This addition is made by the more recent
hand, with authority. " man. " See ibid. n. 2.
Mar. i. e. t
M O'Gor-
Article xiii. —• Its site is marked on "
— ibid. 64, 65, 75, 76, 77, 78, 89,
the Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for
Article XV.
Edited
theCountyofWexford. " Sheets42,47. 8"
Kelly, p. xxx.
3 In the Book of Leinster
See Letters Information containing
at this relative to the Antiquities of the County of date, is the entry Columbae epf mac
Wexford, collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840," vol. i. , p. 366. Article xiv. — 1 Edited Rev. Dr.
TI1A5U1I.
3 Her festival occurs at the 22nd of March.
of
Kelly, p. xxx. In the Book of Leinster Third Volume of this work. Art. ii.
by
her,
See notices
at the same in the date,
copy,
August i. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS, 27
Patrick,* was his mother following the same authority. He is also styled a bishop. In the Martyrology of Donegal,5 at this same date, appears the entry of Colum's name, with the names of his reputed father and mother.
ArticleXVI. —St. Begmarcach,UaBecce,ofMaighin. Afestival
in honour of Begmarcach, Ua Becce, of Maighin, is set down in the Mar- 1
tyrology of Donegal, at the 1st of August. Maighin was the ancient name for Moyne, in the barony of Tyrawley, and it was situated about a mile south- east from Killala, at the mouth of the River Moy, and in the County of Mayo. A Franciscan Friary for brothers of the Strict Observance was foundedthere,byMacWilliamBourke,intheyear14602 anditflourished
for nearly a century, until suppressed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 3 The denomination Moyne is however a common one in many other parts of Ireland.
Article XVII. —Feast of the Sons of Maccabee. In the Irish
1
Calendar of St. ^Engus and at the 1st day of August is entered a festival for the
Sons of Maccabee. To this notice a Latin commentary is found affixed, by
way
of
explanation.
2 There is a full account the Bollandists 3 of St. given by
Eleazar Senex, of the seven Machabean brothers and of their mother, who
suffered a glorious martyrdom at Antioch, in Syria. Prefixed to their Acts,
as contained in the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament,* they have a previous commentary,5 setting forth the traditions and writings, relating to that grievous persecution of the Jews, by Antiochus Epiphanes.
Article XVIII. —Feast for the Elevation of St. Poppo's Relics. At the 25th of January, when Bollandus gives the Acts of St. Poppo, he alludes to the 1st of August as being the Feast for the Elevation of his
1
Relics. Such a notice is briefly entered by the Bollandists, at this same
date.
4 See his Life at the 17th of March, in the " To the Kalends of August came much of Third Volume of this work. Art. i. vigour, at Maccabee's sons' feast, eighty 5 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, great thousands. "—" Transactions of the
pp. 208, 209. — Article xvi.
2 See Archdall's " Monasticon Hiber- nicum," p. 507.
Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manuscript
Edited Todd and Reeves, pp. 208, 209.
Rev. Drs.
Series, vol. i. Part i.
On the Calendar of
3 An interesting narrative of this religious
by
ab oppido Macha a Graeco mace [n&xv}' '• house and of its fortunes may be found in pugna ab —eo quod ibi multi pugnam
"
cxxvii.
Monasteries, and Memoirs . of the Irish 3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus i. Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century. " Augusti i. De SS. Martyribus Eleazaro Sene, Septem Fr. Uribus Machabseis, et
The Rise and Fall of the Irish Franciscan faciebant. " Ibid.
by Rev. C. P. Meehan, M. R. I. A. , chap.
p.
Horum Matre, pp. 5 to 15.
4 II. See I. Machabees, i. ,and
vi. , pp. 60 to 65. 1872, i2mo.
Fourth Edition, Dublin,
Article xvii. "
"
—
Machabees,
Leabhar v. , vi. , viii.
translated into English by Dr. Whitley graphs, by Father John Baptist Soller, S. J.
In the
Breac copy is the following stanza, thus s In four sections and thirty-four para-
Stokes:—
"Do Kb. m -Aug-Airc
Article xviii. —
•OonarwMC
t& peil mac tnochabee txxx mop mile.
mop mbpige
;
Oengus, p. cxxii.
2 Thus: " i. e. in Dalpia (? ) civitate Ar-
meniae in eo die passi sunt, i. e. , Machabeus
" See Acta Sanc- torum," tomus i. Augusti i. Among the
pretermitted Feasts, p. 2.
Articlexix. —1 See"ActaSanctorum,"
tomus i. Augusti i. mitted Feasts, p. 3.
Among the preter-
'
2 $ LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [August 2.
Article XIX. —Reputed Feast of St. Diuma. The Bollandists
1a notice, at the 1st of August, that Camerarius has a Festival for St. Diuma,
at tin's date ; but they desire to have further enlightenment regarding bis sanctity and cultus.
Article XX. —Reputed Feast for St. Rumold, Apostle of Belgium.
to 1 who Surius for his there was a According Dempster, quotes authority,
feast to commemorate St. Rumold, Apostle of Belgium, on this day. His
3
Article XXI. —Discovery of Twenty Bodies of Ursuline Virgins, at Cologne. The Manuscript Florarius Sanctorum records the Discovery of Twenty Bodies of the Ursuline Saints at Cologne, on the 1st of August.
1
At this same date, the Bollandists simply quote that record, and they refer
further notices to the 21st of October, the day for their chief Feast.
£>econtr JBap of august
ARTICLE I. —ST. COMGAN, OR COMHDHAN, THE CULDEE.
WEhave often before alluded to that pious fraternity of men, who were
so numerous in Ireland the of her Church, and during early ages
chief festival falls on the 1st of July, while his Acts are there written.
who served God with such fidelity, as to deserve their distinguishing appellation. One of these occurs, at the present date, in our Irish Calendars. Veneration was given to Comgan the Culdee, at the 2nd of August, as we find entered in the of 1 As we have no indication
Martyrology Tallagh. regardingtheplacewherehedwelt,andasthedesignationofCuldeeis too
general to afford a clue to his identity, so conjecture has been employed, but in vain, to discover anything appertaining to his place in our ecclesiestical history. The Bollandists have some remarks on St. Comgan, at this date 3
; but, having some doubts, that he had been distinct from a Congan Abbot, venerated on the 13th October, they refer for further consideration of him to that date. They state what Colgan thought, regarding the saint of this name, venerated on the 27th of Februarys and that he is not likely to have been that Comgan, to whom allusion must now be made. According to ancient accounts, one Degill had married Cumene/ the sister of St. Colum-
a See also Scottish Entries in the Calendar Article i. —x Edited by Rev. Dr. of David Camerarius, at the 1st day of Kelly, p. xxxi. In the Book of Leinster
August, in Bishop Forbes' Scottish Saints," p. 239.
"
Kalendars of
copy is the entry Comsan Cell "Oe, at the
2nd of August.
2 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus i. Au-
Articlk xx. —'Thus: "InBelgio Rum-
oldi Apostoli Sur. "— Menologium Scotorum.
gusti i. Among the pretermitted feasts, p. See Seventh Volume of this work. the Second Volume of this work, for notices
Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of Scottish 109.
Saints," p. 207. 3 The reader is referred to that date, in
9 Art. i.
Article xxi. —'See "Acta Sanctorum,"
tomus i. Augusti i. Among the preter- mitted Feasts, p. 5.
regarding Comgan or Comdhan, Abbot of Gleann-Ussen, or Killeshin, Queen's County. Art. i.
4 Called Ene by Cathal Maguire.
August 2. ] LIVES 0* THE IRISH SAINTS. 29
kille,5 and they had six holy sons ; namely, Comgan,6 Mernoc or Ernaty
Moelchuo,8 Mirilis,9 Moeldubh,10 and Teldubh. " Other writers add to these
Laisren12and x3 but,indeed,theoldauthoritiesare and Bran; very confusing
contradictory, so far as can be judged from what Colgan lias collected
them. 1 * In the Tract on the Mothers of the Irish Saints, Cuman, the sister of St. Columba, is mentioned as having been mother of the two sons of Degill, i. e„ Mernoc and Caisene ; while another ancient Tract calls her Cuimne, mother of the sons, Meic Decuil, and who are named respectively Mernoc, Cascene, Meldal and Bran, who was buried in Dairu Calchaich, and these were cousins to St. Columkille. 15 About the Comgan, stated to have been the nephew of St. Columba, we do not meet with any further record regarding him. Neither can we be assured, that he is to be found classed among the Irish saints, although there are Comgans or Comdhans so enume- rated. However, this may possibly be the St. Comgan, son of Degill and a nephew of Columkille, by his sister Cumenia. 16 Nor do we even know on
regarding
what authority, this Comgan has been placed among the disciples of his 1
celebrated uncle. In the Martyrology of Donegal, ? at the 2nd day of August, there is a notice of St. Comhdhain's festival. More than this it should be useless for us to state.
Article II. —St. Fechine, or Feichin, a Priest. The name of
St. Fechine, Priest, in the appears
of 1 at the 2nd of Tallagh,
Martyrology
August. Marianus O'Gorman has the Natalis of a saint this same day ; and,
he is probably the one called Fethchu in the Irish language, and Fethchuo
2 Heiscalleda
we have no further definite information regarding him. Also in the Mar-
tyrology of Donegal,3 we have the festival of Feichin entered, at the 2nd of
August. In another Irish Calendar/ this holy man is called a Sagarth, "
in to Latin, according
Colgan.
Presbyter, '
but this beyond
meaning a Priest. " This description probably designates the degree of Holy Orders he attained in the Irish Church.
s See his Life at the 9th of June, in the Sixth Volume of this work. Art. i. , chap. i.
6
tohavebeenvene- rated on the 27th of February, where an account may be found at that date, in the Second Volume of this work, Art. i. ; however,. Colgan thinks his feast referable to the present day, or to the 13th of October. 7 Colgan is doubtful as to whether his feast should be referred to January 17th, or to August 5th, or to December 23rd, where saints bearing a similar name are found in
our Calendars.
8 As Moelchuo and Moelan are synonymous
names, Colgan is at a loss to place his feast on the 4th of January, or on the 17th
of May.
9 In the Irish Calendars, Colgan can find
no saint corresponding with this name.
I3 A St. Bran Beg, of Claonadh, in Hi- Foelan, is venerated on the 1 8th of May.
Supposed by Maguire
Thaumaturga. " Quarta
10 A saint
at the church of Cluain-Chonaire, at the 1 8th of December.
u Colgan can find no saint of this name in the Irish Calendars.
. " A St. Laisren is venerated on the I2th
of August, on the 16th of September, and on the 25th of October.
J
589.
3 Edited by Rev. Drs. Todd and Reeves,
pp. 208, 209.
* Thus, in that Irish Calendar, preserved
in the Royal Irish Academy, we find t? eicm SAgarvcenteredatthisdate. SeeOrdnance Survey Common Place Book F. , p. 67.
bearing
this name is venerated
Scotorum et Pictorum n. 6, Apostolo,
p.
MSee "Trias
Appendix ad Acta S. Columbse, cap. ii. , pp. 477 to 479.
"
15 See Rev. William Reeves' Adamnan's Life of St. Columba. " Additional Notes,
A. , pp. 246, 247.
I0 See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga,"
Quarta Appendix ad Acta S. Columbse, cap. x. , p. 489.
I? Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
l
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxxi. In the Book of Leinster copy we find entered fechine fAC, for this
day.
2 See " Acta Sanctorum Hibernioe," xii.
Martii. De S. Fetchuone Sive Fiechnone,
20S, 209. — Article ii.
30 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [August 2.
Article III. —St. Cobhran or Cobran, of Cluana Cuanlach, or of Cluain-Cuallachta. St. Cobran, of Cluana Cuanlach, is venerated on
this as stated in the day,
of Tallagh. 1 If we the first adopted
Martyrology
reading so far as the name of his place is concerned, perhaps Cuanlach might
be resolved into Loch Cuan, the ancient name for Strangford Lough ; yet, it seems correctly to have been Cluain Cuallacta, and we know of no place in Ireland, with which it can be identified. A saint of this name is found, and whose pedigree is given by Colgan, who thinks he may be identical with the presentholyman. * HewasknownasCobhran,thesonofEnan,andthe nephew of St. Columba,* through Minchotha, who was sister to the latter, and the mother of Cobhran. A festival in honour of Cobhran, of Cluain Cuallachta,* was celebrated at the 2nd of August, according to the Mar-
tyrology of the 0'Clerys. s
Article IV. —St. Lonan, Son of Laisre. The Martyrologies of
such a date. Yet, as he is mentioned at August 2nd, the 20th of this same month is probably an error of some transcriber. *
Article V. —Festival of St. Theodota and her three Sons, Martyrs in Bithynia. In the " Feilire " x of St. y£ngus, at the 2nd of August, there is a commemoration of St. Theodota and of her three children. Explanatory of this festival, the commentator has a notice, that Theodota suffered in Betania or Bithynia, having been cast into a fire with her three children. 2 The Bollandists have published two ancient tracts,* which give the particulars of their glorious martyrdom, together with a previous com-
2 record a festival at the 2nd of to honour August,
l and of
Lonan,sonofLaisre. Inthetableappendedtothislatterrecord,thecompiler sets down a Lonan, son of Laisre, at the 20th of August; but, the com- mentator remarks under it, that he is not mentioned in the Martyrology at
Tallagh
Donegal
in which there is a critical examination s the ancient regarding
rentary,*
tadition in reference to them.
^lUcl? 7 ^ entlT
2
See "Trias Thaumaturga. " Quarta Appendix ad Acta S. Columbse, cap. 111. , p. 480. See also cap. x. , p. 488.
3 See his Life, in the Sixth Volume of this work, at the 9th of June. Art. i.
4 A note by Dr. Todd says at Cuallachta. "The second hand adds after this 'Ethel- valdus. Mar. This is evidently Ethel- wald, Bishop of Winechester, commemorated in the Roman Mart, on the first of August. "
s Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
LL. D. :—
. mAch mm pn
UeococA mbuiDfln
„. _»,, -, Li. . . , . „*«Ju. -i ''
"With that great mother, Theodota, that dear one, went, besides that victory, those three dear children. "—" Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manu- script Series, vol. i. , part i. On the Calen- dar of Oengus, p. cxxii.
2 On the line L6caj\ L&pn mbu<iiT> y\n
is the comment, " i. martin [urn] qua passa [leg. quod passus? ] mocaba cum uii. filiis
Article in. — ' Edited
Dr. Kelly, p. xxxi. At this date in ^the Book of
208, 209. Article iv.
—
The Book of Leinster copy
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
4 According to Dr. O'Donovan's correction of the date.
Article XII. —« Edited by Drs. Todd
and Reeves, pp. 208, 209.
copy we have the entry of 4r*un ep cluAm Cahi, at the Kalends of August.
2 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp. 208, 209.
3 See ibid. , pp. 354, 355.
4 See " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps
Sheets
s This is one of the most extensive parishes in Ireland, and it is shown on Sheets 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 37, 38, 49, 50, 51, 52, 62, 63,
"
by
Dr. Todd states at The Sons :
for the of County
Galway. "
37, 51.
Rev. Dr.
by
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[August i.
born probably after the beginning of the eighth century. He became abbot of Dearmhach or Durrow, in the King's County ; and after St. Columbkille" the Founder, he is the first abbot there of whom we find record. Cinneadh
died, a. d. 788,3 or recte 793. +
Article XII. —The Sons of Mocobha. The sons of Mocobha are commemorated by Marianus O'Gorman, at this date. We do not learn by what particular names they had been known. In like manner, the Mar-
'
tyrology of Donegal registers, at the 1st of August, as having veneration
paid to them, these sons 2 of Mocobha.
Article XIII. —Feast for a reputed St. Davin, County of Wex-
Davin's well—where a patron had been held on the 1st of August—may be seen. This is believed to have been the feast day of a local St. Davin, although his name does not occur in the Irish Calendars. 2
Article XIV. —St. Arun or Aruin, Bishop of Clonkeen. The
x
Martyrology of Tallagh mentions, that veneration was given, at the 1st of
August, to Arun, Bishop of Cluain-caoin. There are several Clonkeens in
different parts of Ireland. That most celebrated in our ecclesiastical annals
appearstohavebeenaplacesituatedintheCountyofLouth. Thename
of this saint is also at the same date, in the of 2 entered, Martyrology Donegal,
as Aruin, Bishop of Cluain-caoin. To this notice, we find appended the word (Aron), italicised and within brackets, in the table postfixed to the DonegalMartyrology. 3 Again,dowereadtheseremarksthussuperadded,
but in smaller type [Five miles from Athriagh (? Ath-na-riagh) is a wonder- working bell]. The only townland denomination we find corresponding is that of Athry,* in the parish of Moyrus, 5 and barony of Ballynahinch, County of Galway.
Article XV. —St. Columba or Colum, Bishop, and son of Riagail
or Rianghal. The name of Columba, Bishop, and called Mac Riagail, is
12
inserted in the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the 1st of August. According
totheO'Clerys,thisColumwasthesonofRianghal. Darerca,3sisterofSt.
1
ford. In Kildavin parish, barony of Forth, and County of Wexford, St.
' A note
This addition is made by the more recent
hand, with authority. " man. " See ibid. n. 2.
Mar. i. e. t
M O'Gor-
Article xiii. —• Its site is marked on "
— ibid. 64, 65, 75, 76, 77, 78, 89,
the Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for
Article XV.
Edited
theCountyofWexford. " Sheets42,47. 8"
Kelly, p. xxx.
3 In the Book of Leinster
See Letters Information containing
at this relative to the Antiquities of the County of date, is the entry Columbae epf mac
Wexford, collected during the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840," vol. i. , p. 366. Article xiv. — 1 Edited Rev. Dr.
TI1A5U1I.
3 Her festival occurs at the 22nd of March.
of
Kelly, p. xxx. In the Book of Leinster Third Volume of this work. Art. ii.
by
her,
See notices
at the same in the date,
copy,
August i. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS, 27
Patrick,* was his mother following the same authority. He is also styled a bishop. In the Martyrology of Donegal,5 at this same date, appears the entry of Colum's name, with the names of his reputed father and mother.
ArticleXVI. —St. Begmarcach,UaBecce,ofMaighin. Afestival
in honour of Begmarcach, Ua Becce, of Maighin, is set down in the Mar- 1
tyrology of Donegal, at the 1st of August. Maighin was the ancient name for Moyne, in the barony of Tyrawley, and it was situated about a mile south- east from Killala, at the mouth of the River Moy, and in the County of Mayo. A Franciscan Friary for brothers of the Strict Observance was foundedthere,byMacWilliamBourke,intheyear14602 anditflourished
for nearly a century, until suppressed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 3 The denomination Moyne is however a common one in many other parts of Ireland.
Article XVII. —Feast of the Sons of Maccabee. In the Irish
1
Calendar of St. ^Engus and at the 1st day of August is entered a festival for the
Sons of Maccabee. To this notice a Latin commentary is found affixed, by
way
of
explanation.
2 There is a full account the Bollandists 3 of St. given by
Eleazar Senex, of the seven Machabean brothers and of their mother, who
suffered a glorious martyrdom at Antioch, in Syria. Prefixed to their Acts,
as contained in the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament,* they have a previous commentary,5 setting forth the traditions and writings, relating to that grievous persecution of the Jews, by Antiochus Epiphanes.
Article XVIII. —Feast for the Elevation of St. Poppo's Relics. At the 25th of January, when Bollandus gives the Acts of St. Poppo, he alludes to the 1st of August as being the Feast for the Elevation of his
1
Relics. Such a notice is briefly entered by the Bollandists, at this same
date.
4 See his Life at the 17th of March, in the " To the Kalends of August came much of Third Volume of this work. Art. i. vigour, at Maccabee's sons' feast, eighty 5 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, great thousands. "—" Transactions of the
pp. 208, 209. — Article xvi.
2 See Archdall's " Monasticon Hiber- nicum," p. 507.
Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manuscript
Edited Todd and Reeves, pp. 208, 209.
Rev. Drs.
Series, vol. i. Part i.
On the Calendar of
3 An interesting narrative of this religious
by
ab oppido Macha a Graeco mace [n&xv}' '• house and of its fortunes may be found in pugna ab —eo quod ibi multi pugnam
"
cxxvii.
Monasteries, and Memoirs . of the Irish 3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus i. Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century. " Augusti i. De SS. Martyribus Eleazaro Sene, Septem Fr. Uribus Machabseis, et
The Rise and Fall of the Irish Franciscan faciebant. " Ibid.
by Rev. C. P. Meehan, M. R. I. A. , chap.
p.
Horum Matre, pp. 5 to 15.
4 II. See I. Machabees, i. ,and
vi. , pp. 60 to 65. 1872, i2mo.
Fourth Edition, Dublin,
Article xvii. "
"
—
Machabees,
Leabhar v. , vi. , viii.
translated into English by Dr. Whitley graphs, by Father John Baptist Soller, S. J.
In the
Breac copy is the following stanza, thus s In four sections and thirty-four para-
Stokes:—
"Do Kb. m -Aug-Airc
Article xviii. —
•OonarwMC
t& peil mac tnochabee txxx mop mile.
mop mbpige
;
Oengus, p. cxxii.
2 Thus: " i. e. in Dalpia (? ) civitate Ar-
meniae in eo die passi sunt, i. e. , Machabeus
" See Acta Sanc- torum," tomus i. Augusti i. Among the
pretermitted Feasts, p. 2.
Articlexix. —1 See"ActaSanctorum,"
tomus i. Augusti i. mitted Feasts, p. 3.
Among the preter-
'
2 $ LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [August 2.
Article XIX. —Reputed Feast of St. Diuma. The Bollandists
1a notice, at the 1st of August, that Camerarius has a Festival for St. Diuma,
at tin's date ; but they desire to have further enlightenment regarding bis sanctity and cultus.
Article XX. —Reputed Feast for St. Rumold, Apostle of Belgium.
to 1 who Surius for his there was a According Dempster, quotes authority,
feast to commemorate St. Rumold, Apostle of Belgium, on this day. His
3
Article XXI. —Discovery of Twenty Bodies of Ursuline Virgins, at Cologne. The Manuscript Florarius Sanctorum records the Discovery of Twenty Bodies of the Ursuline Saints at Cologne, on the 1st of August.
1
At this same date, the Bollandists simply quote that record, and they refer
further notices to the 21st of October, the day for their chief Feast.
£>econtr JBap of august
ARTICLE I. —ST. COMGAN, OR COMHDHAN, THE CULDEE.
WEhave often before alluded to that pious fraternity of men, who were
so numerous in Ireland the of her Church, and during early ages
chief festival falls on the 1st of July, while his Acts are there written.
who served God with such fidelity, as to deserve their distinguishing appellation. One of these occurs, at the present date, in our Irish Calendars. Veneration was given to Comgan the Culdee, at the 2nd of August, as we find entered in the of 1 As we have no indication
Martyrology Tallagh. regardingtheplacewherehedwelt,andasthedesignationofCuldeeis too
general to afford a clue to his identity, so conjecture has been employed, but in vain, to discover anything appertaining to his place in our ecclesiestical history. The Bollandists have some remarks on St. Comgan, at this date 3
; but, having some doubts, that he had been distinct from a Congan Abbot, venerated on the 13th October, they refer for further consideration of him to that date. They state what Colgan thought, regarding the saint of this name, venerated on the 27th of Februarys and that he is not likely to have been that Comgan, to whom allusion must now be made. According to ancient accounts, one Degill had married Cumene/ the sister of St. Colum-
a See also Scottish Entries in the Calendar Article i. —x Edited by Rev. Dr. of David Camerarius, at the 1st day of Kelly, p. xxxi. In the Book of Leinster
August, in Bishop Forbes' Scottish Saints," p. 239.
"
Kalendars of
copy is the entry Comsan Cell "Oe, at the
2nd of August.
2 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus i. Au-
Articlk xx. —'Thus: "InBelgio Rum-
oldi Apostoli Sur. "— Menologium Scotorum.
gusti i. Among the pretermitted feasts, p. See Seventh Volume of this work. the Second Volume of this work, for notices
Bishop Forbes' "Kalendars of Scottish 109.
Saints," p. 207. 3 The reader is referred to that date, in
9 Art. i.
Article xxi. —'See "Acta Sanctorum,"
tomus i. Augusti i. Among the preter- mitted Feasts, p. 5.
regarding Comgan or Comdhan, Abbot of Gleann-Ussen, or Killeshin, Queen's County. Art. i.
4 Called Ene by Cathal Maguire.
August 2. ] LIVES 0* THE IRISH SAINTS. 29
kille,5 and they had six holy sons ; namely, Comgan,6 Mernoc or Ernaty
Moelchuo,8 Mirilis,9 Moeldubh,10 and Teldubh. " Other writers add to these
Laisren12and x3 but,indeed,theoldauthoritiesare and Bran; very confusing
contradictory, so far as can be judged from what Colgan lias collected
them. 1 * In the Tract on the Mothers of the Irish Saints, Cuman, the sister of St. Columba, is mentioned as having been mother of the two sons of Degill, i. e„ Mernoc and Caisene ; while another ancient Tract calls her Cuimne, mother of the sons, Meic Decuil, and who are named respectively Mernoc, Cascene, Meldal and Bran, who was buried in Dairu Calchaich, and these were cousins to St. Columkille. 15 About the Comgan, stated to have been the nephew of St. Columba, we do not meet with any further record regarding him. Neither can we be assured, that he is to be found classed among the Irish saints, although there are Comgans or Comdhans so enume- rated. However, this may possibly be the St. Comgan, son of Degill and a nephew of Columkille, by his sister Cumenia. 16 Nor do we even know on
regarding
what authority, this Comgan has been placed among the disciples of his 1
celebrated uncle. In the Martyrology of Donegal, ? at the 2nd day of August, there is a notice of St. Comhdhain's festival. More than this it should be useless for us to state.
Article II. —St. Fechine, or Feichin, a Priest. The name of
St. Fechine, Priest, in the appears
of 1 at the 2nd of Tallagh,
Martyrology
August. Marianus O'Gorman has the Natalis of a saint this same day ; and,
he is probably the one called Fethchu in the Irish language, and Fethchuo
2 Heiscalleda
we have no further definite information regarding him. Also in the Mar-
tyrology of Donegal,3 we have the festival of Feichin entered, at the 2nd of
August. In another Irish Calendar/ this holy man is called a Sagarth, "
in to Latin, according
Colgan.
Presbyter, '
but this beyond
meaning a Priest. " This description probably designates the degree of Holy Orders he attained in the Irish Church.
s See his Life at the 9th of June, in the Sixth Volume of this work. Art. i. , chap. i.
6
tohavebeenvene- rated on the 27th of February, where an account may be found at that date, in the Second Volume of this work, Art. i. ; however,. Colgan thinks his feast referable to the present day, or to the 13th of October. 7 Colgan is doubtful as to whether his feast should be referred to January 17th, or to August 5th, or to December 23rd, where saints bearing a similar name are found in
our Calendars.
8 As Moelchuo and Moelan are synonymous
names, Colgan is at a loss to place his feast on the 4th of January, or on the 17th
of May.
9 In the Irish Calendars, Colgan can find
no saint corresponding with this name.
I3 A St. Bran Beg, of Claonadh, in Hi- Foelan, is venerated on the 1 8th of May.
Supposed by Maguire
Thaumaturga. " Quarta
10 A saint
at the church of Cluain-Chonaire, at the 1 8th of December.
u Colgan can find no saint of this name in the Irish Calendars.
. " A St. Laisren is venerated on the I2th
of August, on the 16th of September, and on the 25th of October.
J
589.
3 Edited by Rev. Drs. Todd and Reeves,
pp. 208, 209.
* Thus, in that Irish Calendar, preserved
in the Royal Irish Academy, we find t? eicm SAgarvcenteredatthisdate. SeeOrdnance Survey Common Place Book F. , p. 67.
bearing
this name is venerated
Scotorum et Pictorum n. 6, Apostolo,
p.
MSee "Trias
Appendix ad Acta S. Columbse, cap. ii. , pp. 477 to 479.
"
15 See Rev. William Reeves' Adamnan's Life of St. Columba. " Additional Notes,
A. , pp. 246, 247.
I0 See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga,"
Quarta Appendix ad Acta S. Columbse, cap. x. , p. 489.
I? Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
l
Edited by Rev. Dr. Kelly, p. xxxi. In the Book of Leinster copy we find entered fechine fAC, for this
day.
2 See " Acta Sanctorum Hibernioe," xii.
Martii. De S. Fetchuone Sive Fiechnone,
20S, 209. — Article ii.
30 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [August 2.
Article III. —St. Cobhran or Cobran, of Cluana Cuanlach, or of Cluain-Cuallachta. St. Cobran, of Cluana Cuanlach, is venerated on
this as stated in the day,
of Tallagh. 1 If we the first adopted
Martyrology
reading so far as the name of his place is concerned, perhaps Cuanlach might
be resolved into Loch Cuan, the ancient name for Strangford Lough ; yet, it seems correctly to have been Cluain Cuallacta, and we know of no place in Ireland, with which it can be identified. A saint of this name is found, and whose pedigree is given by Colgan, who thinks he may be identical with the presentholyman. * HewasknownasCobhran,thesonofEnan,andthe nephew of St. Columba,* through Minchotha, who was sister to the latter, and the mother of Cobhran. A festival in honour of Cobhran, of Cluain Cuallachta,* was celebrated at the 2nd of August, according to the Mar-
tyrology of the 0'Clerys. s
Article IV. —St. Lonan, Son of Laisre. The Martyrologies of
such a date. Yet, as he is mentioned at August 2nd, the 20th of this same month is probably an error of some transcriber. *
Article V. —Festival of St. Theodota and her three Sons, Martyrs in Bithynia. In the " Feilire " x of St. y£ngus, at the 2nd of August, there is a commemoration of St. Theodota and of her three children. Explanatory of this festival, the commentator has a notice, that Theodota suffered in Betania or Bithynia, having been cast into a fire with her three children. 2 The Bollandists have published two ancient tracts,* which give the particulars of their glorious martyrdom, together with a previous com-
2 record a festival at the 2nd of to honour August,
l and of
Lonan,sonofLaisre. Inthetableappendedtothislatterrecord,thecompiler sets down a Lonan, son of Laisre, at the 20th of August; but, the com- mentator remarks under it, that he is not mentioned in the Martyrology at
Tallagh
Donegal
in which there is a critical examination s the ancient regarding
rentary,*
tadition in reference to them.
^lUcl? 7 ^ entlT
2
See "Trias Thaumaturga. " Quarta Appendix ad Acta S. Columbse, cap. 111. , p. 480. See also cap. x. , p. 488.
3 See his Life, in the Sixth Volume of this work, at the 9th of June. Art. i.
4 A note by Dr. Todd says at Cuallachta. "The second hand adds after this 'Ethel- valdus. Mar. This is evidently Ethel- wald, Bishop of Winechester, commemorated in the Roman Mart, on the first of August. "
s Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
LL. D. :—
. mAch mm pn
UeococA mbuiDfln
„. _»,, -, Li. . . , . „*«Ju. -i ''
"With that great mother, Theodota, that dear one, went, besides that victory, those three dear children. "—" Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manu- script Series, vol. i. , part i. On the Calen- dar of Oengus, p. cxxii.
2 On the line L6caj\ L&pn mbu<iiT> y\n
is the comment, " i. martin [urn] qua passa [leg. quod passus? ] mocaba cum uii. filiis
Article in. — ' Edited
Dr. Kelly, p. xxxi. At this date in ^the Book of
208, 209. Article iv.
—
The Book of Leinster copy
Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
