—The
Festival
of St.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4
,
Drs. Todd and Reeves.
Colgan's
bjr
Tables of the Martyrology, pp. 458, 459.
• A comment is found that as postfixed,
" Acta Sanctorum Hiber- De S. Nennidhio seu
n.
17, p. 115.
lory
holy p. 451. Also,
See Md. , nn. 76, 77, 78, 79. 80. PP- •'See "Ecclesiastical Antiquities of 452,453.
" See " Britannia Sancta," part i. , p. 51. '» See " Kalendars of Scottish Saints," p.
425. " '* From Dr. Lanigan, in his
Ecclesiasti-
14 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [April 2.
place ;'* and, according to the O'Clerys, he was identical with the present holy man. Were we to follow some accounts, St. Nennidh was son to Eochadh, who belonged to the race of Laeogaire, Monarch of Ireland. '9 However, it is more correct to state, that he was son of Ethach, and that he was born, at a place, called Mula, or Mull. This was thought, by Colgan, to have been the Island of Mull,'° in Scotland. Most likely, however, it is rendered MuUagh, at present, and various places in Ireland are so called. Again, St. Nennidh is stated, to have been a disciple of St. Patrick f but, such an account is not to be found, in any Acts of the Irish Apostle. It is much more rational to suppose,^'' that St. Nennidh Lamhglann was brought up, under the discipline of St. Fiech,^3 Archbishop of Leinster. During his early years, our saint was a giddy and frolicsome youth, who attracted the notice of St. Brigid,^* Abbess of Kildare, while she was travelling near that place, in an easterly direction, and probably over the present racecourse of the Curragh. She spoke to him, as he ran from her, and he returned to ask her prayers. Soon his soul was filled with God's grace, and he performed penance, afterwards leading a most holy life. The illustrious Abbess pre- dicted, that she should receive the Body and Blood of Christ from his hand, at the hour of her death. ^s The writers of St. Brigid's Acts relate, that Nennidh then proposed to retire from Ireland, for a number of years, in order to prepare for this function. It is stated, moreover, that he felt so sensibly the honour intended for him, that he placed a brass gauntlet, secured by a lock and key, over his hand, so that it might not be defiled by touching any object, until he should be called upon to administer Holy Viaticum to St. Brigid. Hence, he obtained the surname, by which he was distinguished. Itisnotknownbywhomhehadbeenordained,althoughithas been stated, that he became a priest, at the instance of St. Patrick himself. However, in the Acts of St. Brigid, it is said, that he travelled abroad into Britain. The circumstances narrated, regarding this journey, are sufficiently romantic, and varied according to the fancies of different writers. Some state, that he became an exile from Ireland, owing to the express instructions of St. Brigid. Again, a Latin Hymn,^* in praise of that holy Abbess, has been attributed to him, by some writers,^' and it has been published, by Colgan. °^ He is said to have travelled, from Britain to Rome, so that he might visit the shrines of the Holy Apostles. His pilgrimage had lasted for four years, when an angelic vision warned him, that he should return to Ire- land. The weakness of advancing years and her incessant labours had told
"
Ninnidh Laimhiodhain or Ninnid the Pure- "See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga, Handed, who is mentioned in the Acts of Septima Vita S. Patricii, pars, iii. , cap. St. Brigid, was not a bishop, but only a xxii. , p. 153, and n. 41, p. 185. Ibid.
priest, the present saint seems to be iden- ticalwithhim.
'5 We are informed, in Rev. John Francis Shearman's " Loca Patriciana," No. v. , that Ninnidh Lamglan, or Lamiodhan, and Nainedh, of Kiltoma, venerated at the 13th of November, had a common ancestor, viz. : Nial of the Nine Hostages, the latter being fourth, in descent, and the former sixth, from the same king.
'°
This one of the Hebrides
its extreme
'^
This we have attempted to our Life of St. Brigid, chap. i.
in
length is thirty-five miles, and its extreme
breadth is thirty. It has a superficial area
of 420 square miles. See "The Popular
"' Others have it, that St. Ultan of Ard- braccan composed it, while some think it
" Imp. 8vo.
con,'
&c. , vol, v. , p. 86. Glasgow, 1841, Scriptoribus Hibernias," lib. i. , cap. i. , p. 3,
"*
;
versify,
Encyclopedia; or 'Conversations I^xi- was St. Fiech. See Sir James Ware, " De
" See Dr. Lanigan's "Ecclesiastical His-
toryofIreland,"vol. i. , chap,ix. ,sect,v. ,
n. 76, p. 453.
°3 His festival occurs, at the I2th of
October.
°* Her feast is held, on the first of Feb-
ruary.
°s See a more detailed account of the fore-
going incidents, at the 1st day of February, in our Life of St. Brigid, chap. x.
See "Trias Thaumaturga," Tertia
April 2. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 15
upon St. Brigid, and sailing over the Irish sea, Nennidh soon landed in Ireland,'s where he learned, that the illustrious Mary of Erinn eagerly expected his last visit to her. On his return home, Nennidh found that saint approaching to her happy end. Her chaplain then administered the Sacred Viaticum, without delay, and soon afterwards she expired, about a. d. 523. The legend of his attendance on St. Brigid at the period of her decease, though probably founded on fact, is overlaid with too much of the marvellous, to be readily beheved. s" However this may be, it is generally stated, that Nennidh Lamhghlandidnotverylongsurvivehisgreatpatroness; but,thedayand year for his demise have not been exactly ascertained. He flourished in the sixth century,3' according to such a synchronesis.
Article III. —St. Conall, Bishop of Clonallan, County or Down.
[Sixth Century. ] In the Martyrology of Tallagh,' the name of Conall, son of Aedha, is found, entered at the 2nd of April. The Bollandists,' while deferring an opinion on the subject, until the Acts of the Irish Saints should receive further illustration, remark, that the saint, venerated on this day at
Cluain-dallain, is thought, by Colgan,3 to have been Connall,< Abbot of Kill- chonail, in the territory, known as Maine, or Hy-Maine. The O'Clerys state, that the saint, venerated on the 2nd of April, belonged to the race of Irial, son to Conall Ceamach. At first, St Conall was president over Clonallan
church,' county of Down, at an early period. He afterwards succeeded St.
Carbreus,* as Bishop of Coleraine, about the year 570. His parish was
evidently near Carlingford Ix)ugh,? which becomes contracted at Caol,
"
in the same now the Narrow Water.
been derived from St Dalian,* who flourished in the sixth century. ' The O'Clerys' Calendar states, that his place was near Snamh Each,'° i. e. the harbour near unto the Gael," in Ui E^thach, of Uladh. " We read, in the Martyrology of Donegal,'^ that veneration was paid, on this day, to Conall, son of Aedh, of Cluain, i. e. of Cluain Dallain, now Clonallan parish.
"
Vita S. Brigiflx, p. 542. It begins with on the Ordnance Survey Townland Maps
narrow,"
as that used the in the word by Scotch,
"
the words,
'' See our Life of St Brigid, chap. xi». ,
at the 1st of February.
for the County of Loulh,'' . Sheets i, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9. The town and Liberties are on Sheets 5, 8, 9 ; while the Lough—so cele-
"
"See Rev. John Francis Shearman's brated for its size and for the ro—mantic LocaPatriciana,"No. x. ,n. I,p. 250. beautyofitssceneryoneithershore takes " See Bishop Challenor's ' ' Britannia its name from the town.
'
ber.
ll'a feast occurs, at the nth of Novem-
Dallain, Armagh, in his comments on the Donegal Martjrrology.
Christus in nostra insula. "
Sancta," part i. , —pp. 50, 51.
Article hi.
Kelly, p. XX. The Franciscan copy has Conall iti4c Aex)^
'See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus i. , Aprilis i. Among the pretermitted oaints, p. 57.
•See "Acta Sanctorum Hibcmise," ix. Febnurii. De. S. Attracta, n. j.
* Called, also, Conallus Droma.
'The parish of Clonallan, in the barony
of Upper Iveagh, is marked on the " Ord-
nance Survey Townland Maps for the
County of Down," Sheets 47, 50, 51, 54.
Clonallan Glebe in noted on Sheets 51, ^
/UJ.
*
His feast was kept, on the 29th of
' The of
parish Carlingford,
Vila S. . Columbae, lib. n. Quarta i. ,
380, 381.
Edited
by
Rev. Dr.
January.
See Rev. William Reeves' " Ecclesias-
tical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," n. (o), pp. 114, 115, and Calendar LL, p. 377.
'° " Snamh each. i. an cuan laiin ris in
cbaol (Narrow Water, near Newry), in uib echach uUut). "—MS. note, by William
M. Hennes'iey, appended.
" In a note Dr. Todd, says, "Cael, »>. ,
the Narrow Water. William M. Hennessy says, that Clonallan lies near the Narrow Water, at Newry. I find, also, a note in
his handwriting, to this effect, "Cluain "
situated in the barony of Loner Dundalk, is described
105, pp,
sense,
The name of this church is said, however, to have
'
" See " Trias Colgan's
Thaumaturga. "
Kyles,
i6 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [April 2.
Article IV.
—The Festival of St. Amphianus, and of his Com- panions. IntheBollandists'greatwork,"wefindsomebriefnoticesofthe
of St. '' and of St. Victor,^ with fourteen other com- Amphianus
martyrdom
panions,* as met with in several old Martyrologies, yet with some variations of
entry. In the Feilire of St. . (Engus,5 their festival is entered, likewise, while their martyrdom is commemorated, at the 2nd day of April. The exact place, where they suffered, is not noticed.
Article V. —Reputed Festival of St. Riquier, or Richarius, Abbot of Centule, France. \Sixth and Seventh Centuries. ) This St. Riquier, Riquierus, or Richarius, was Abbot of Centule, in Ponthieu. His
feast was kept, on the 2nd of April ; and, according to other accounts, on the 9th of October ; yet, the 26th of April is generally assigned for his feast. '
'
HenryFitzsimon placeshim,asRiquierus,3intheCalendarofIrishSaints;
yet, on no fair grounds that we can discover, if it be not, that his instructors were Irishmen. ^
A—rticle VI. —Reputed Festival of St. Nica—perhaps St. Nice- Tius BishopofLyons,France,orSt. Nicasius,BishopandMartyr. The festival in honour of Nica,' Bishop, was celebrated, on this day, as we read, in the Martyrology of Donegal. ^ With Irish hagiology, the present holy man appears to have had no special connexion ; but, it must be apparent, that either St. Nicetus,3 Bishop of Lyons, who flourished in the sixth century, or St. Nicasius,^ Bishop and Martyr, mentioned in certain written additions s of a Carthusian, at Bruxelles, to a copy of Greuen,* can only be meant.
Article VII. —Festival of St. Eustasius, Abbot of Luxeu, France. In various old Martyrologies, such as in those of Usuard,' of Tournay, of Utrecht, of Bruxelles, of Laetiensis, and of Altempsia, as also in a Supple- ment to the Martyrology of St. Jerome, printed at Paris, there is an entry of
"3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
"
^ gee D. Philippo O'SulIevano Bearro, Historic Catholics Ibernise Compen-
92, 93. — Article IV.
See "Acta torn, Sanctorum," diura,"
De Sanctis Martyribus
Galesinus omits his name.
3 His name is omitted in a Manuscript
Martyrology of St. Cyriacus, often quoted in the notes of Baronius.
* The number varies, in some accounts.
5 The following is from the Leabhar Br—eac
tomus i. , Aprilis i.
Afris Amphiano, Victore et aliis xiv. , p. 66.
preceding day, in the Acts of St. Caidoc, and of St. Frico—r, or Adrian.
'
Article vi. In a note. Dr. Todd here
'
copy, as edited by Dr. Whitley Stokes
THopftu<i5<lnibip<siii oiAtnbA Tjemun •oubicVi
X)i\ebt\<iiri5 iAi\CAch caIat) ipnpT) foe^N Tub<ich.
"Amphianus' great host, for which the demon was sorrowful, passed after a hard battle into the noble happy peace. "
Article v. —' See "Les Petits BoUan-
distes Vies des Saints," tome v. , xxvi« Jour
' Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
92, 93.
3 See an account of him, in the Bollandists'
"ActaSanctorum,"tomusi. , Aprilisi. De
Sancto Nicetio, Episcopo Lugdunensi in Gallia. His Acts are compiled from various sources. See pp. 95 to lot.
* The day for his deposition is set down as the 12th of December,
s Thus is the feast entered, at this date :
S. Nicasii, Episcopi et Martyris, Remis Translatio.
'"
See the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum,"
d'Avril, pp. 33 to 36. '
tomus i. , Aprilis i. saints, p. 58. — Article vii.
Among the pretermitted
' In the
"CataJojiusaliquorum Sanctorum Hiber- nise. "
Manuscript copy,
:
lib. iv. ,
* See the account, already given, at the
i. ,
cap. xii. , p. 56.
says, at this name Nica : " The more recent '
hand adds, Marian. Est Nicetus de quo Martyrol. Romanum hac die. "
April 3. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 17
St. Eustasius, Abbot of the Monastery of Luxeu, at the 2nd of April. His Acts have been given, in our previous volume, at the 29th of March. The
'
BoUandists have a notice of him, at this day ; but, it is unnecessary, to de-
vote further space, in consideration of the subject.
%W^ liap of apn'I.
ARTICLE I. —ST. CUANAN GLINNE, ABBOT OF MAGH-BILE, OR MOVILLE, COUNTY OF DERRY.
[EIGHTH CENTURY. \
seems likely enough, that the present holy man was bom before the
IT
close of the seventh as he
this before the middle of life,
departed
the eighth century. He was created Abbot over the famous monastery of
Magh-Bile,' now known as Moville, in the diocese of Deny. This word, "»
age,
Magh-Bile, is rendered, Campus arboris Sacri," in Latin ; it means, in
"the -English, plain
of the sacred tree. " It is
this —had been probable, place
—n, that in ancient times, some sacred tree an
so called, for the reaso object
of religious veneration stood near the site of a church, or monastery, here founded. Another church, known as Magh Bile, or Moville, was situated,
in the parish of Newtownards,' not far from the head of Strangford Lough ;< and this had been founded, by St. Finian,s or Findbarr, before or about the middle of the sixth century. * St. Cuanan Glinne died, on the 3rd day of April, A. D. 742, according to Colgan i and the Annals of the Four Masters. * The Annals of t[lster, however, place his death, at a. d. 746. 9 The BoUan-
dists '°
merely
allude to his name and
festival,
at this date.
which belonged to St Germain des Fres, Paris.
' See "Acta Sanctorum," torous i. ,
a prominent place in the Irish Annals, is not noticed, at least under its usual name, in the Taxation. Its ruins are 107 feet in length, and its cemetery is the parish burial- ground of Newtownards. "—Ord. Survey, s.
' His feast occurs, at the loth of Sep-
tember.
•"
See Dr. Lanigan's Ecclesiastical His-
tory of Ireland," vol. ii. , chap, x. , sect, vi. ,
p. 25.
' According to Colgan, in his notice of St.
Aprilis i. p. 56.
Article
—
—
tics of Down, Connor' and Dromore," n. (r), p. 14.
Among the pretermitted feasts,
i.
' It was otherwise called
6.
Dr. Reeves' "Ecclesiastical
Antiqui-
Norborgh, or Maydbylly, as we find from the "Acts of Archbishop Colton in his Metropolitan Vbitation of the Diocese of Derry, A. D. Mcccxcvil. ," &c. Edited by
Rev. Dr. Reeves.
(o, p, X. ) * "
See pp. 65, 58, with nn.
i. e. Arbor sacer-
BiU-Magh-a-dair,
campi-Quercus sive adorationis, arbos erat
in agro Clarense," &c. —Dr. O'Conor's Cuanna, Abbot of Lismore. See "Acta
" Rerum Hibemicarum Scriptores," torn. i.
Prolegomena, pars i. , p. 26, and n. 2.
' This parish, in the baronies of Lower
Ardsand of LowerCastlereagh, is described. on the "Ordnance Survey 'lownland Maps for the County of Do«p," Sheets I, 2, 5, 6, II.
* " About a mile N. E. of the town of Newtownards stood the abbey church of Moville (m^g biU), which, though founded so early as the sixth century, and occupying
Sanatorum Hibemise," iv. Februarii, n. 2,
p. 251.
• See Dr. O'Donovan's " Annals of the
Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 342, 343.
» " Cuanan (linne AhhasMaigi-6i/e mori- tur. "—Dr. O'Conor's " Rerum Hibemica- rum Scriptores," torn. iv. Annales
Ultonienses, pars, i. , p. 91.
'° See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus i. ,
Aprilis iii. Among the pretermitted sainU, pp. 235, 236.
B
i8 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[April 3.
Article II. —St. Coman, son of Domainghin. The Martyrology of ' inserts an at the of April, St. Coman, who is
Tallagh entry, 3rd
regar—ding
suppose him from the name of their
Called the son of — We Domangin. may
from the
respective fathers to have been a distinct person St. Comman,'
who gave name to Roscommon,3 where, at present, are to be seen the ruins * of a beautiful Dominican Abbey,' founded by Phelim Mac Cathal Crovdearg O'Conor, King of Connaught, a. d. 1257,* and who was buried there,' in the
Roscommon Abbey, County of Roscommon.
year1265. ^ Onthisday,likewise,wefindrecorded,intheMartyrologyof Donegal,? as having veneration paid to him, a St. Coman, the son of Do- mainghin. Similartothisrecord,intheIrishCalendar,whichbelongedto the Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park, at the Third of April Nones,
corresponding with the same day of this month, we meet only the entry of
one saint. " The Bollandists " that he have been the same conjecture, may
as Cuanna, Abbot of Maghbile.
Article ii. —' Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. XX. The Franciscan copy has
ConiAn Td-ic X)omori5ifi.
Drs. Todd and Reeves.
Colgan's
bjr
Tables of the Martyrology, pp. 458, 459.
• A comment is found that as postfixed,
" Acta Sanctorum Hiber- De S. Nennidhio seu
n.
17, p. 115.
lory
holy p. 451. Also,
See Md. , nn. 76, 77, 78, 79. 80. PP- •'See "Ecclesiastical Antiquities of 452,453.
" See " Britannia Sancta," part i. , p. 51. '» See " Kalendars of Scottish Saints," p.
425. " '* From Dr. Lanigan, in his
Ecclesiasti-
14 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [April 2.
place ;'* and, according to the O'Clerys, he was identical with the present holy man. Were we to follow some accounts, St. Nennidh was son to Eochadh, who belonged to the race of Laeogaire, Monarch of Ireland. '9 However, it is more correct to state, that he was son of Ethach, and that he was born, at a place, called Mula, or Mull. This was thought, by Colgan, to have been the Island of Mull,'° in Scotland. Most likely, however, it is rendered MuUagh, at present, and various places in Ireland are so called. Again, St. Nennidh is stated, to have been a disciple of St. Patrick f but, such an account is not to be found, in any Acts of the Irish Apostle. It is much more rational to suppose,^'' that St. Nennidh Lamhglann was brought up, under the discipline of St. Fiech,^3 Archbishop of Leinster. During his early years, our saint was a giddy and frolicsome youth, who attracted the notice of St. Brigid,^* Abbess of Kildare, while she was travelling near that place, in an easterly direction, and probably over the present racecourse of the Curragh. She spoke to him, as he ran from her, and he returned to ask her prayers. Soon his soul was filled with God's grace, and he performed penance, afterwards leading a most holy life. The illustrious Abbess pre- dicted, that she should receive the Body and Blood of Christ from his hand, at the hour of her death. ^s The writers of St. Brigid's Acts relate, that Nennidh then proposed to retire from Ireland, for a number of years, in order to prepare for this function. It is stated, moreover, that he felt so sensibly the honour intended for him, that he placed a brass gauntlet, secured by a lock and key, over his hand, so that it might not be defiled by touching any object, until he should be called upon to administer Holy Viaticum to St. Brigid. Hence, he obtained the surname, by which he was distinguished. Itisnotknownbywhomhehadbeenordained,althoughithas been stated, that he became a priest, at the instance of St. Patrick himself. However, in the Acts of St. Brigid, it is said, that he travelled abroad into Britain. The circumstances narrated, regarding this journey, are sufficiently romantic, and varied according to the fancies of different writers. Some state, that he became an exile from Ireland, owing to the express instructions of St. Brigid. Again, a Latin Hymn,^* in praise of that holy Abbess, has been attributed to him, by some writers,^' and it has been published, by Colgan. °^ He is said to have travelled, from Britain to Rome, so that he might visit the shrines of the Holy Apostles. His pilgrimage had lasted for four years, when an angelic vision warned him, that he should return to Ire- land. The weakness of advancing years and her incessant labours had told
"
Ninnidh Laimhiodhain or Ninnid the Pure- "See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga, Handed, who is mentioned in the Acts of Septima Vita S. Patricii, pars, iii. , cap. St. Brigid, was not a bishop, but only a xxii. , p. 153, and n. 41, p. 185. Ibid.
priest, the present saint seems to be iden- ticalwithhim.
'5 We are informed, in Rev. John Francis Shearman's " Loca Patriciana," No. v. , that Ninnidh Lamglan, or Lamiodhan, and Nainedh, of Kiltoma, venerated at the 13th of November, had a common ancestor, viz. : Nial of the Nine Hostages, the latter being fourth, in descent, and the former sixth, from the same king.
'°
This one of the Hebrides
its extreme
'^
This we have attempted to our Life of St. Brigid, chap. i.
in
length is thirty-five miles, and its extreme
breadth is thirty. It has a superficial area
of 420 square miles. See "The Popular
"' Others have it, that St. Ultan of Ard- braccan composed it, while some think it
" Imp. 8vo.
con,'
&c. , vol, v. , p. 86. Glasgow, 1841, Scriptoribus Hibernias," lib. i. , cap. i. , p. 3,
"*
;
versify,
Encyclopedia; or 'Conversations I^xi- was St. Fiech. See Sir James Ware, " De
" See Dr. Lanigan's "Ecclesiastical His-
toryofIreland,"vol. i. , chap,ix. ,sect,v. ,
n. 76, p. 453.
°3 His festival occurs, at the I2th of
October.
°* Her feast is held, on the first of Feb-
ruary.
°s See a more detailed account of the fore-
going incidents, at the 1st day of February, in our Life of St. Brigid, chap. x.
See "Trias Thaumaturga," Tertia
April 2. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 15
upon St. Brigid, and sailing over the Irish sea, Nennidh soon landed in Ireland,'s where he learned, that the illustrious Mary of Erinn eagerly expected his last visit to her. On his return home, Nennidh found that saint approaching to her happy end. Her chaplain then administered the Sacred Viaticum, without delay, and soon afterwards she expired, about a. d. 523. The legend of his attendance on St. Brigid at the period of her decease, though probably founded on fact, is overlaid with too much of the marvellous, to be readily beheved. s" However this may be, it is generally stated, that Nennidh Lamhghlandidnotverylongsurvivehisgreatpatroness; but,thedayand year for his demise have not been exactly ascertained. He flourished in the sixth century,3' according to such a synchronesis.
Article III. —St. Conall, Bishop of Clonallan, County or Down.
[Sixth Century. ] In the Martyrology of Tallagh,' the name of Conall, son of Aedha, is found, entered at the 2nd of April. The Bollandists,' while deferring an opinion on the subject, until the Acts of the Irish Saints should receive further illustration, remark, that the saint, venerated on this day at
Cluain-dallain, is thought, by Colgan,3 to have been Connall,< Abbot of Kill- chonail, in the territory, known as Maine, or Hy-Maine. The O'Clerys state, that the saint, venerated on the 2nd of April, belonged to the race of Irial, son to Conall Ceamach. At first, St Conall was president over Clonallan
church,' county of Down, at an early period. He afterwards succeeded St.
Carbreus,* as Bishop of Coleraine, about the year 570. His parish was
evidently near Carlingford Ix)ugh,? which becomes contracted at Caol,
"
in the same now the Narrow Water.
been derived from St Dalian,* who flourished in the sixth century. ' The O'Clerys' Calendar states, that his place was near Snamh Each,'° i. e. the harbour near unto the Gael," in Ui E^thach, of Uladh. " We read, in the Martyrology of Donegal,'^ that veneration was paid, on this day, to Conall, son of Aedh, of Cluain, i. e. of Cluain Dallain, now Clonallan parish.
"
Vita S. Brigiflx, p. 542. It begins with on the Ordnance Survey Townland Maps
narrow,"
as that used the in the word by Scotch,
"
the words,
'' See our Life of St Brigid, chap. xi». ,
at the 1st of February.
for the County of Loulh,'' . Sheets i, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9. The town and Liberties are on Sheets 5, 8, 9 ; while the Lough—so cele-
"
"See Rev. John Francis Shearman's brated for its size and for the ro—mantic LocaPatriciana,"No. x. ,n. I,p. 250. beautyofitssceneryoneithershore takes " See Bishop Challenor's ' ' Britannia its name from the town.
'
ber.
ll'a feast occurs, at the nth of Novem-
Dallain, Armagh, in his comments on the Donegal Martjrrology.
Christus in nostra insula. "
Sancta," part i. , —pp. 50, 51.
Article hi.
Kelly, p. XX. The Franciscan copy has Conall iti4c Aex)^
'See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus i. , Aprilis i. Among the pretermitted oaints, p. 57.
•See "Acta Sanctorum Hibcmise," ix. Febnurii. De. S. Attracta, n. j.
* Called, also, Conallus Droma.
'The parish of Clonallan, in the barony
of Upper Iveagh, is marked on the " Ord-
nance Survey Townland Maps for the
County of Down," Sheets 47, 50, 51, 54.
Clonallan Glebe in noted on Sheets 51, ^
/UJ.
*
His feast was kept, on the 29th of
' The of
parish Carlingford,
Vila S. . Columbae, lib. n. Quarta i. ,
380, 381.
Edited
by
Rev. Dr.
January.
See Rev. William Reeves' " Ecclesias-
tical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore," n. (o), pp. 114, 115, and Calendar LL, p. 377.
'° " Snamh each. i. an cuan laiin ris in
cbaol (Narrow Water, near Newry), in uib echach uUut). "—MS. note, by William
M. Hennes'iey, appended.
" In a note Dr. Todd, says, "Cael, »>. ,
the Narrow Water. William M. Hennessy says, that Clonallan lies near the Narrow Water, at Newry. I find, also, a note in
his handwriting, to this effect, "Cluain "
situated in the barony of Loner Dundalk, is described
105, pp,
sense,
The name of this church is said, however, to have
'
" See " Trias Colgan's
Thaumaturga. "
Kyles,
i6 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [April 2.
Article IV.
—The Festival of St. Amphianus, and of his Com- panions. IntheBollandists'greatwork,"wefindsomebriefnoticesofthe
of St. '' and of St. Victor,^ with fourteen other com- Amphianus
martyrdom
panions,* as met with in several old Martyrologies, yet with some variations of
entry. In the Feilire of St. . (Engus,5 their festival is entered, likewise, while their martyrdom is commemorated, at the 2nd day of April. The exact place, where they suffered, is not noticed.
Article V. —Reputed Festival of St. Riquier, or Richarius, Abbot of Centule, France. \Sixth and Seventh Centuries. ) This St. Riquier, Riquierus, or Richarius, was Abbot of Centule, in Ponthieu. His
feast was kept, on the 2nd of April ; and, according to other accounts, on the 9th of October ; yet, the 26th of April is generally assigned for his feast. '
'
HenryFitzsimon placeshim,asRiquierus,3intheCalendarofIrishSaints;
yet, on no fair grounds that we can discover, if it be not, that his instructors were Irishmen. ^
A—rticle VI. —Reputed Festival of St. Nica—perhaps St. Nice- Tius BishopofLyons,France,orSt. Nicasius,BishopandMartyr. The festival in honour of Nica,' Bishop, was celebrated, on this day, as we read, in the Martyrology of Donegal. ^ With Irish hagiology, the present holy man appears to have had no special connexion ; but, it must be apparent, that either St. Nicetus,3 Bishop of Lyons, who flourished in the sixth century, or St. Nicasius,^ Bishop and Martyr, mentioned in certain written additions s of a Carthusian, at Bruxelles, to a copy of Greuen,* can only be meant.
Article VII. —Festival of St. Eustasius, Abbot of Luxeu, France. In various old Martyrologies, such as in those of Usuard,' of Tournay, of Utrecht, of Bruxelles, of Laetiensis, and of Altempsia, as also in a Supple- ment to the Martyrology of St. Jerome, printed at Paris, there is an entry of
"3 Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
"
^ gee D. Philippo O'SulIevano Bearro, Historic Catholics Ibernise Compen-
92, 93. — Article IV.
See "Acta torn, Sanctorum," diura,"
De Sanctis Martyribus
Galesinus omits his name.
3 His name is omitted in a Manuscript
Martyrology of St. Cyriacus, often quoted in the notes of Baronius.
* The number varies, in some accounts.
5 The following is from the Leabhar Br—eac
tomus i. , Aprilis i.
Afris Amphiano, Victore et aliis xiv. , p. 66.
preceding day, in the Acts of St. Caidoc, and of St. Frico—r, or Adrian.
'
Article vi. In a note. Dr. Todd here
'
copy, as edited by Dr. Whitley Stokes
THopftu<i5<lnibip<siii oiAtnbA Tjemun •oubicVi
X)i\ebt\<iiri5 iAi\CAch caIat) ipnpT) foe^N Tub<ich.
"Amphianus' great host, for which the demon was sorrowful, passed after a hard battle into the noble happy peace. "
Article v. —' See "Les Petits BoUan-
distes Vies des Saints," tome v. , xxvi« Jour
' Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
92, 93.
3 See an account of him, in the Bollandists'
"ActaSanctorum,"tomusi. , Aprilisi. De
Sancto Nicetio, Episcopo Lugdunensi in Gallia. His Acts are compiled from various sources. See pp. 95 to lot.
* The day for his deposition is set down as the 12th of December,
s Thus is the feast entered, at this date :
S. Nicasii, Episcopi et Martyris, Remis Translatio.
'"
See the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum,"
d'Avril, pp. 33 to 36. '
tomus i. , Aprilis i. saints, p. 58. — Article vii.
Among the pretermitted
' In the
"CataJojiusaliquorum Sanctorum Hiber- nise. "
Manuscript copy,
:
lib. iv. ,
* See the account, already given, at the
i. ,
cap. xii. , p. 56.
says, at this name Nica : " The more recent '
hand adds, Marian. Est Nicetus de quo Martyrol. Romanum hac die. "
April 3. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 17
St. Eustasius, Abbot of the Monastery of Luxeu, at the 2nd of April. His Acts have been given, in our previous volume, at the 29th of March. The
'
BoUandists have a notice of him, at this day ; but, it is unnecessary, to de-
vote further space, in consideration of the subject.
%W^ liap of apn'I.
ARTICLE I. —ST. CUANAN GLINNE, ABBOT OF MAGH-BILE, OR MOVILLE, COUNTY OF DERRY.
[EIGHTH CENTURY. \
seems likely enough, that the present holy man was bom before the
IT
close of the seventh as he
this before the middle of life,
departed
the eighth century. He was created Abbot over the famous monastery of
Magh-Bile,' now known as Moville, in the diocese of Deny. This word, "»
age,
Magh-Bile, is rendered, Campus arboris Sacri," in Latin ; it means, in
"the -English, plain
of the sacred tree. " It is
this —had been probable, place
—n, that in ancient times, some sacred tree an
so called, for the reaso object
of religious veneration stood near the site of a church, or monastery, here founded. Another church, known as Magh Bile, or Moville, was situated,
in the parish of Newtownards,' not far from the head of Strangford Lough ;< and this had been founded, by St. Finian,s or Findbarr, before or about the middle of the sixth century. * St. Cuanan Glinne died, on the 3rd day of April, A. D. 742, according to Colgan i and the Annals of the Four Masters. * The Annals of t[lster, however, place his death, at a. d. 746. 9 The BoUan-
dists '°
merely
allude to his name and
festival,
at this date.
which belonged to St Germain des Fres, Paris.
' See "Acta Sanctorum," torous i. ,
a prominent place in the Irish Annals, is not noticed, at least under its usual name, in the Taxation. Its ruins are 107 feet in length, and its cemetery is the parish burial- ground of Newtownards. "—Ord. Survey, s.
' His feast occurs, at the loth of Sep-
tember.
•"
See Dr. Lanigan's Ecclesiastical His-
tory of Ireland," vol. ii. , chap, x. , sect, vi. ,
p. 25.
' According to Colgan, in his notice of St.
Aprilis i. p. 56.
Article
—
—
tics of Down, Connor' and Dromore," n. (r), p. 14.
Among the pretermitted feasts,
i.
' It was otherwise called
6.
Dr. Reeves' "Ecclesiastical
Antiqui-
Norborgh, or Maydbylly, as we find from the "Acts of Archbishop Colton in his Metropolitan Vbitation of the Diocese of Derry, A. D. Mcccxcvil. ," &c. Edited by
Rev. Dr. Reeves.
(o, p, X. ) * "
See pp. 65, 58, with nn.
i. e. Arbor sacer-
BiU-Magh-a-dair,
campi-Quercus sive adorationis, arbos erat
in agro Clarense," &c. —Dr. O'Conor's Cuanna, Abbot of Lismore. See "Acta
" Rerum Hibemicarum Scriptores," torn. i.
Prolegomena, pars i. , p. 26, and n. 2.
' This parish, in the baronies of Lower
Ardsand of LowerCastlereagh, is described. on the "Ordnance Survey 'lownland Maps for the County of Do«p," Sheets I, 2, 5, 6, II.
* " About a mile N. E. of the town of Newtownards stood the abbey church of Moville (m^g biU), which, though founded so early as the sixth century, and occupying
Sanatorum Hibemise," iv. Februarii, n. 2,
p. 251.
• See Dr. O'Donovan's " Annals of the
Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 342, 343.
» " Cuanan (linne AhhasMaigi-6i/e mori- tur. "—Dr. O'Conor's " Rerum Hibemica- rum Scriptores," torn. iv. Annales
Ultonienses, pars, i. , p. 91.
'° See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus i. ,
Aprilis iii. Among the pretermitted sainU, pp. 235, 236.
B
i8 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[April 3.
Article II. —St. Coman, son of Domainghin. The Martyrology of ' inserts an at the of April, St. Coman, who is
Tallagh entry, 3rd
regar—ding
suppose him from the name of their
Called the son of — We Domangin. may
from the
respective fathers to have been a distinct person St. Comman,'
who gave name to Roscommon,3 where, at present, are to be seen the ruins * of a beautiful Dominican Abbey,' founded by Phelim Mac Cathal Crovdearg O'Conor, King of Connaught, a. d. 1257,* and who was buried there,' in the
Roscommon Abbey, County of Roscommon.
year1265. ^ Onthisday,likewise,wefindrecorded,intheMartyrologyof Donegal,? as having veneration paid to him, a St. Coman, the son of Do- mainghin. Similartothisrecord,intheIrishCalendar,whichbelongedto the Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park, at the Third of April Nones,
corresponding with the same day of this month, we meet only the entry of
one saint. " The Bollandists " that he have been the same conjecture, may
as Cuanna, Abbot of Maghbile.
Article ii. —' Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. XX. The Franciscan copy has
ConiAn Td-ic X)omori5ifi.
