* In "Catalogus
Sanctorum
Italic.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5
, Vita S.
Gobbani, p.
750.
•See Archdall's " Monasticon Hiberni-
cum," p. 695.
' According to a supposition of some, this
but most frequently they are not attained, or, if possessed, while worldly wealth, so won, is sure to increase their care Many are ambitious of public dignities and honours ; soli-
6l2 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[May 30.
governed the Island of Molana, in the River Blackwater of Munster, and in the county of Waterford, or whether he ruled over an Island, in the present WexfordHarbour. BothplacesformerlywentbythenameofDarinis. Some writers say, this saint was abbot of Airdne, one of the Aran Isles, off the coast of Galway, and in several Martyrologies, we are told, he is styled Abbas Ardnensis. -* The common name of the three Islands was Ara,5 w-hich in the nominativeisAirne,orAranninthegenitive,accordingtotheIrish. Where- fore, Father John Colgan ^ thought Airne to have been a distinct name for one of these Islands. It is another mistake of his to write, that Ard-Olen was the
^V
Nurney Old Church, County of Kildare.
same as that Island ;7 for, Ard-Olen lies, as elsewhere he has properly stated, in another place. ^ Neither is the most eastern the chiefest of the three Isles of Aran, as he took it to be,9 but rather it is the smallest. It is probable, that he was led into the mistake, by some incorrect map, in which these Islands were either misplaced, or their position was reversed. *° Before Colgan's time, the Maps of Ireland were grossly inaccurate. In some of them this East Island of Aran is set down as the largest. In others, the greatest size is claimed for the Middle Island. " There are many places, in Ireland, called
word signifies "a kidney," from a fanciful * See ibid. , xx. Januarii, Supplementum resemblance of Aranmoie to one. However, Vitae S. Fechini, cap. xxii. , p. 135, and n.
if it were the name applied to all the Islands in common, this ingenious conjecture of the etymologists sliould at once vanish, if we take into account their actual conformation.
13. p. 141.
' See ibid. , xxi. Martii, Appendix ad
Vitam S. Endei, cap. vii. , p. 714.
'° The very same cause may account for
' See "Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae," his mistake about Ardoilen.
Martii xxvi. Dc S. Gobano Abbatc de " Sec the Government Map, headed, Airdne Dairinnsi, nn. i, 2, p. 750. " Ilibernia, Insula, non procul ab Anglia,
' See ibid. , xxi. Martii, Appendix ad wlgare Uirlandia vocata, 1567," published Vitam S. Endei, cap. vii. , pp. 714, 715. with the State Papers, vol. ii. London, 1834.
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Airdne by our ancient writers ; and, in modern phraseology, that denomina- tion has been rendered into Urney or Nurney. One of those places, called Nurney, gives name to a townland" and parish, in the present Barony of West Offiily, county of Kildare ; and here, there are some ruins of an old church in a cemetery. '3 In the same county, there is another parish of Nurney, in the Barony of Carbury. '-^ There is a parish called Nurney. likewise, in the Baronies of Carlow, Forth, and Idrone West, county of Carlow. 's However, it is not certain, that St. Goban or Gobban had connexion with any of these places. We find entered, likewise, in the Martyrology of Donegal,^^ that Gobban, abbot of Airdne, was venerated, on this day.
Article III, St. Fergussius, of Druim-bile, otherwise, St. Saergusa bile, or Saerghos, of Druim. Saergusabileis the description we find entered for this saint, in the Martyrology of Tallagh,' at the 30th of May. However, the BoUandists,^ who cite the same authority, place Faer- gussius de Druim-bile, at this date, and probably, it is the more correct ren- dering. There is a townland, called Drumbilla,3 in the parish of Roche,4 and baronyofUpperDundalk,inthecountyofLouth;while,it seemstobethe only nearly corresponding denomination, among the other townland names in Ireland. Yet, it is hardly probable, notwithstanding, that it was the place of Fer- gussius, Saergusa, or Saerghos. This holy man appears to have been identified, with Soergussius,5 or Saerghus, an abbot of Dearmhach or Durrow,^ and who died A. D. 835. 7 The identification, however, cannot be relied upon, as being quiteconclusive. Thissameday,venerationwasgiventoSaerghos,ofDruim, aswereadintheMartyrologyofDonegal. ^ Inthetableappended,thisname is written Saorghuss, and Latinized, Sergius. 9 On the west coast of Ireland, in the county of Sligo, there is a Dromard,'° the site of a religious erection. One of Miss Owenson's most affecting sketches is given of an incident she has noted, when sitting on a tomb among the old ecclesiastical ruins of Dromard, over the Atlantic Ocean, the landlord of the place, her companion, was asked by
" " In the vicinity of the village is an old castle. This parish is a rectory in the dio- cese of Kildare. "—"Parliamentary Gazet- teerof Ireland," vol. iii. , p. 43.
•3 The accompanying illustration is from a sketch, kindly made on the spot, by Rev. Edward O'Leary, C. C. , Rathangan, and transferred by William F. Wakeman, to the wood, engraved by Mrs. Millard. As acces- sories to the picture, the round stone vessel —probably a font—belongs to the place: the oblong one has been conveyed to the modern chapel, which adjoins the ruin at Nurney, and it belongs to a neighbouring old church, at Harristovvn, as I have been informed, in a letter of Very Rev. Michael Comerford, P. P. , Monasterevan, and dated June 2nd, 1S85. The situation of this parish is marked on the "Ordnance Survey Town- land Maps for the County of Kildare," sheets 27, 31. The villige, townland, and demesne, so named, are marked on the same maps.
for the County of Carlow," sheet 12,
'° Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
I40, 141.
Article in. — ' Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxv.
-See -"Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii.
Among the pretermitted saints, p. 233.
3 See it described, on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of
Louth," sheet 3.
*• This parish contains 3,305a. ir. I7p. ,
and it is shown on sheets 3, 4, 7- Il'id.
5 See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Appendix ad Acta S. Columbi-e, cap.
iv. , sect, iii. , pp. 507, 508.
* In the King's County.
? See Dr. O Donovan's "Annals of the
Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 452,453.
« j^jjfgj ^y Qj-s. Todd and Reeves, pp.
140, 141.
9 See ibid. , pp. 464, 465.
'° This parish in the Barony of Tireragh is
shown, on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Sligo,"_ sheets 13, 19, 20. The townland proper is marked on
sheet 19.
" See Miss Owenson's "Patriotic Sketches
»» See ibid. , sheets 2, 3, 8. called Nurney, is on sheet 3.
Its townland,
'S It is shown, with tlie townlandso named, on the "Ordnance Survey Townland Maps
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6 14 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [May 30.
a young peasant, for stones from his quarry to built up the cemetery wall, thus to save his parents' remains from desecration. "
Article IV. St. Ernine, or Erni:ius. The insertion of the name, Ernine, is found in the Martyrology of Tallagh,' at this date. The Bollan- dists' have it Ernimus—apparently an incorrect spelling—at the 30th of May, and on the previous authority. No clue is given, however, to find his place or his period.
Article V. Reputed Feast of St. Silay, or Silaus, Bishop at Lucca. The Acts, probably of St. Silaus, Bishop of Lucca—also called Silay—had been prepared for publication by Colgan,' as we find in the post- humous list of his Manuscripts, and he had intended to place them, at the 30th ofMay. ThiswasapparentlyontheauthorityofPhilipFerrarius,whostates that he died, a. d. 780, and on the Sunday after Ascension Day, in that same year. However, the Bollandists, who quote his authority for the statement, show, that the Sunday in question then fell on the 7th and not on the 30th
of May. " Father Stephen White 3 commemorates St. Silanus, at the 30th of May; and,PhilipFerarius,''also,seemstohavebeenhisauthorityforthat entry. We have already treated about St. Silaus, Bishop and Patron at Lucca, in Hetruria. 5
Article VI. St. Heyna or Hieu. [Sevefith Ce? itury. '] In the EngUsh Martyrology of John Wilson, the present holy virgin is commemo- rated, on this day ; while Philip Ferrarius ' and Arthur de Monstier ^ adopt the same arrangement. She is said to have been the first woman who em- braced a conventual life, at the instigation of St. Aidan,3 Bishop and Apostle oftheKingdomofNorthumbria. NotwithstandingtheopinionofJohnLeland, St. Hieu was a different person from St. Bees,* or Bega, as is shown by Dr. Smith, in his annotations on Venerable Bede ;5 and, Heina is said to have founded the monastery of Heorthu, over which she placed Hilla, and then she retired to Tadcaster. ^ A Saxon monastery was at this place, so early as 655 ; but, the church there was afterwards annexed to Sallay Abbey,?
of Ireland, written in Connaught," vol. ii. , 3 His Life may be seen, at the 31st of sketch xii. , pp. 9 to 13. August.
Article iv. — " Edited by Rev. Dr. •» See her Life, at the 6th of Septem-
Kelly, p. XXV.
' See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii.
Among the pretermitted saints, p. 233. Article V. —' See " Catalogus Actuum Sanctorum quae MS. habentur, ordine Men-
sium et Dierum. "
* See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii.
Amongthe pretermitted feasts, p. 233. They add: " festum autem agitur Lucas ipsa Dominica, et olim affixum fuit diei, quando vitam damns xxi. Maii. "
3 See "Apologia pro Ilibernia," cap. iv. , p. 40, cap. v. , p. 64.
* In "Catalogus Sanctorum Italic. "
5 See in the present Volume, Art. ii. , at the 2ist of this month.
Article vi. — • In "Catalogus Gene- ralis Sanctorum. "
* In Gynoeco Sacro.
ber.
s See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
Anglorum. " At lib. iv. , cap. 53, note.
'"St. Mar}-'s Tadcaster, is a market town and parish, chiefly in the upper division of tlie wapentake of Barkstone Ash, but partly in tlie west division of Ainstiy wapentake, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. This place
was the site of that Roman station Calcaria so named from the soil abounding with calx or limestone. It is situated on the naviga- ble River Wharfe, over which there is a handsome stone bridge. See Samuel Lewis' "Topographical Dictionary of England," vol. iv. , pp. 294, 295.
7 See the " Monasticon Anglicanum," by Sir William Dugdalc, Kl. . and edited by John Caley, F. R. S. , Henry Ellis, LL. B. , and the Rev. Bulkelcy Bandinel, D. D. ,
;
1787, fol.
9 See Cough's Camden's "Britannia,"
vol. iii. , p. 52.
" See "Annales Ecclesiae Britannicse,"
tomusii. , num. iii. , p. 294.
" See an interesting account of this saint
and of her Priory, in Sir WiUiam Dugdale's " Monasticon Anglicanum," &c. , vol. iii. , pp. 574 to 580.
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founded in 1146-7, by William De Percy the Third. ^ Others have it, that St. Heyna lived in Calcasester,? which is the original name given to the place, by Venerable Bede, when he speaks of St. Heina, who first took the veil in these parts. Her death is referred to a. d. 657, by Father Michael Alford,'° who thinks her to be the same as St. Bega, or Bee, of Copeland," in Cum- berland, referred by Wilson to the 6th of September, in the first edition of his Martyrology, and to the 22nd of November, in the second issue of his work. " The BoIlandists,^3 who have stated what precedes, remark, that in the ancient Martyrologies, they found nothing referring to her veneration; and that, if they met with further traces of it, they might treat about her, at the ist of October,'* or at the 22nd of November. 's She is said to have closed a holy life, at Tadcaster, on the 30th of May, a. d. 657. '^ We do not know, if she be the Heina, mentioned by Thomas Dempster,'? as having been veiled at Berwick. He states, that her time was uncertain, and she is said '^ to have written a Book of Hymns to the saints
; but, we should like to have better authority for this latter assertion, which
we do not believe can be sustained.
Article VII. Festival of St. Caidoc and Frechor or Adrian, Centule, Picardy, and Apostles of the Morini, in France. \Sixth and Seventh Centuries. '\ Already, at ist day of April,' we have treated about these holy missionaries ; but, their feasts are not confined to that day alone, asthe24thofJanuary^ andthe31stofMarch3 havebeendedicatedtotheir memory,asalsothepresent30thofMay. InanoldManuscriptKalendar, belonging to the church of Centule,* and in an old Kalendar published by D'Achery,5 their feast has been assigned to the latter day, which seems to
have been the one, according most with local tradition and former usage. The BoUandists, at this date, have Acts of these saints, Caidoc and Frechor or Adrian, in a historic commentary, consisting of eight paragraphs. ^ As we have already seen, they left Ireland for the Ponthieu district,? in Picardy, where,
vol. v. , pp. 510 to 516.
^ See Bishop Tanner's " Notitia Monas-
'5 The date given for St. Bega's festival, by John Wilson,
'^ According to Alford's " Annales Eccle-
sise Britannicse," tomus ii. , num. iii. , p.
Scotoruifi," tomus ii. , lib. viii. , num. 702,
^^ By the same Dempster.
Article vii. —' See the Fourth Volume of this work, Art. i.
= See First Volume, at that date, Art. ix. , regarding St. Caidoc 's reputed Feast.
^ See Third Volume, at that date, Art. ix.
* It states : " Coenobio Centula SS. Chaidoci, Fricorii, et Maldegisi, quorum duo primi B. Richario ad initium sancts conver- sationis Doctores fuerunt. "
tica ; or an Account of all the Abbies,
Priories, and Houses of Friers formerly in
England and Wales, and also of all the Col-
leges and Hospitals founded before a. d.
MDXL," edition by James Nasmith, M. A. , Yorkshire, sect, cv. , edition, Cambridge, p. 369.
" Alford says
Heina dicatur e Northumbriae Regibus de-
scendisse, Bega vero Hibernia Vocetur :
quia HibernicK Insults Northumbris vicing
frequinter sanguinem miscebant. "—"An- Caydoci, Adriani et Madegisli. "
:
'• Nee multum obest, quod
nales Ecclesiae Britannicse," tomus ii. , num. iii. , p. 294.
'3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 235.
'* This is the date for the Feast of St. Bega, Virgin, in the additions of Greven.
^ See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii. De SS. Caidoco et Frechorio sive Adriano, Cen- tulse in Picardia, pp. 262, 263.
? Abbeville is its chief town, and the Ec- clesiatical History of this place has been written by Ignatius Joseph de Mana, a Dis-
294.
^^ See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
^ In " Spicilegium," tomus x. It states: " Coenobio Centula Sanctorum Confessorum
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at Centule, under the charge of its first founder and Abbot, St. Richarius,^ they led a reUgious life, where they were interred, and wliere their relics were afterwards preserved. At Centule, the monks of St. Riquier possessed a considerable quantity of books,9 in the beginning of the ninth century. '" Besides the epitaph composed for St. Caidoc," by St. Angilbert," Abbot of Centule ; this learned and holy man composed another '3 for St. Fricor, his companion. During that time, when '+ the Abbot of Centule St. Gervin lived, '5 he had their remains removed from the earth, and enclosed in a silver shrine, adorned with precious stones. The relics were thus placed for public veneration. '^ A crypt or chapel, was built, likewise, by the same St. Gervin, and four altars were erected therein; while, among the relics of holy confessors, the name of Caydocus was to be found on the chief altar. The reader is re- ferred to what has been already stated, in the Life of St. Madelgisilus, which at this date, likewise, precedes the present account.
Article VIII. —Festival of the Nativity of St. Thomas. The "Feilire"' of St. . -Engus commemorates, at the 30th of May, the Feast of the Nativity of St. Thomas. Elsewhere, we cannot find any no- tice of such a festival. His chief feast in the Church is at the 21st of December; and, as his Acts have been recorded, in the general History of the Church and in the Hagiography of her Saints, we need not further allude to him in this connexion.
caked Cannelite. The first establishment of Christianity here seems to have been rooted out owing to the incursions of the Vandals and Hunns, until it was revived by our saint.
* His feast has been assigned to the 26th of April. Besides the Life of this holy man, as written by Alcuinus Flaccus, in tlie time of Charlemagne, there has been a metrical Life of him composed in Latin Hexameter verse,bytheAbbotIngelrammus. Inthis, allusion is thus made to our two Irish saints, in cap. ii. , thus :
" Tunc et Pontivus meruit splendes- cere pagus,
Forte Sacerdotum radians fulgure duorum.
Nomen majoris quorum fuerat Caido- cus,
Egregiis nieritis quos misit Hibernia nobis. "
' Among those was one noticed as " Bib-
liotheca integra ubi continentur libri Ixxii. in
uno voluinine," as also, " Bibliotheca dis-
persa in voluminibus 14. "—Chron. Centul.
iJ'Achery's " Spicilegium," tomus ii. , p. Breac " copy we have the following stanza, 3"-
'" See Rev. S. R. Maitland's "The Dark Ages ; a series of Kssays, intended to illus- trate the . State of Relii,'ion and Literature in the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," No. xii. , p. 195.
" See vol. iv. of this work, at April 1st, Art. i.
'• He departed this life on the iSth of February—the day for his feast—A. D. 814.
translated into English by Whitley Stokes, LL. D. :—
'^ These Latin Lines run as follows :
" Corpore terreno qui cernitur esse sepultus,
Gaudia pro meritis coelica Isetus habet.
Iste fuit Fricorus Chaidoco consocia- tus:
Quern sibi concessum Centula gau- det ovans.
Hievirtutevalensdespexitprospera mundi
Et modo viventi gloria magna patet.
Quando Deo placuit, ccelorum regna petivit :
Nunc Angilberti carmine fulget. Amen. "
'* According to a Manuscript " Chronicon Centulense " of Joannes Capella, and com- piled A. D. 1492, at num. 21.
'5 Hedieda. d. 1073,^^^^1hisfeastiskept on tlie 3rd of March.
" According to Ariulphus, in his " Chro- nicum Centulense,' lib. iv. , cap. 32.
Article viii. — ' In the "Leabhar
rioeb a^paL Ai\|riA'o<JC hipunoniAiti eciiAi gtiii CoiiiAii' cetioipne Pai]" eucAic cenecLAi.
" A holy Apostle of our God in a deep of wisdom, the nativity of Thomas without
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Article IX.
•See Archdall's " Monasticon Hiberni-
cum," p. 695.
' According to a supposition of some, this
but most frequently they are not attained, or, if possessed, while worldly wealth, so won, is sure to increase their care Many are ambitious of public dignities and honours ; soli-
6l2 LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
[May 30.
governed the Island of Molana, in the River Blackwater of Munster, and in the county of Waterford, or whether he ruled over an Island, in the present WexfordHarbour. BothplacesformerlywentbythenameofDarinis. Some writers say, this saint was abbot of Airdne, one of the Aran Isles, off the coast of Galway, and in several Martyrologies, we are told, he is styled Abbas Ardnensis. -* The common name of the three Islands was Ara,5 w-hich in the nominativeisAirne,orAranninthegenitive,accordingtotheIrish. Where- fore, Father John Colgan ^ thought Airne to have been a distinct name for one of these Islands. It is another mistake of his to write, that Ard-Olen was the
^V
Nurney Old Church, County of Kildare.
same as that Island ;7 for, Ard-Olen lies, as elsewhere he has properly stated, in another place. ^ Neither is the most eastern the chiefest of the three Isles of Aran, as he took it to be,9 but rather it is the smallest. It is probable, that he was led into the mistake, by some incorrect map, in which these Islands were either misplaced, or their position was reversed. *° Before Colgan's time, the Maps of Ireland were grossly inaccurate. In some of them this East Island of Aran is set down as the largest. In others, the greatest size is claimed for the Middle Island. " There are many places, in Ireland, called
word signifies "a kidney," from a fanciful * See ibid. , xx. Januarii, Supplementum resemblance of Aranmoie to one. However, Vitae S. Fechini, cap. xxii. , p. 135, and n.
if it were the name applied to all the Islands in common, this ingenious conjecture of the etymologists sliould at once vanish, if we take into account their actual conformation.
13. p. 141.
' See ibid. , xxi. Martii, Appendix ad
Vitam S. Endei, cap. vii. , p. 714.
'° The very same cause may account for
' See "Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae," his mistake about Ardoilen.
Martii xxvi. Dc S. Gobano Abbatc de " Sec the Government Map, headed, Airdne Dairinnsi, nn. i, 2, p. 750. " Ilibernia, Insula, non procul ab Anglia,
' See ibid. , xxi. Martii, Appendix ad wlgare Uirlandia vocata, 1567," published Vitam S. Endei, cap. vii. , pp. 714, 715. with the State Papers, vol. ii. London, 1834.
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May 30. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 613
Airdne by our ancient writers ; and, in modern phraseology, that denomina- tion has been rendered into Urney or Nurney. One of those places, called Nurney, gives name to a townland" and parish, in the present Barony of West Offiily, county of Kildare ; and here, there are some ruins of an old church in a cemetery. '3 In the same county, there is another parish of Nurney, in the Barony of Carbury. '-^ There is a parish called Nurney. likewise, in the Baronies of Carlow, Forth, and Idrone West, county of Carlow. 's However, it is not certain, that St. Goban or Gobban had connexion with any of these places. We find entered, likewise, in the Martyrology of Donegal,^^ that Gobban, abbot of Airdne, was venerated, on this day.
Article III, St. Fergussius, of Druim-bile, otherwise, St. Saergusa bile, or Saerghos, of Druim. Saergusabileis the description we find entered for this saint, in the Martyrology of Tallagh,' at the 30th of May. However, the BoUandists,^ who cite the same authority, place Faer- gussius de Druim-bile, at this date, and probably, it is the more correct ren- dering. There is a townland, called Drumbilla,3 in the parish of Roche,4 and baronyofUpperDundalk,inthecountyofLouth;while,it seemstobethe only nearly corresponding denomination, among the other townland names in Ireland. Yet, it is hardly probable, notwithstanding, that it was the place of Fer- gussius, Saergusa, or Saerghos. This holy man appears to have been identified, with Soergussius,5 or Saerghus, an abbot of Dearmhach or Durrow,^ and who died A. D. 835. 7 The identification, however, cannot be relied upon, as being quiteconclusive. Thissameday,venerationwasgiventoSaerghos,ofDruim, aswereadintheMartyrologyofDonegal. ^ Inthetableappended,thisname is written Saorghuss, and Latinized, Sergius. 9 On the west coast of Ireland, in the county of Sligo, there is a Dromard,'° the site of a religious erection. One of Miss Owenson's most affecting sketches is given of an incident she has noted, when sitting on a tomb among the old ecclesiastical ruins of Dromard, over the Atlantic Ocean, the landlord of the place, her companion, was asked by
" " In the vicinity of the village is an old castle. This parish is a rectory in the dio- cese of Kildare. "—"Parliamentary Gazet- teerof Ireland," vol. iii. , p. 43.
•3 The accompanying illustration is from a sketch, kindly made on the spot, by Rev. Edward O'Leary, C. C. , Rathangan, and transferred by William F. Wakeman, to the wood, engraved by Mrs. Millard. As acces- sories to the picture, the round stone vessel —probably a font—belongs to the place: the oblong one has been conveyed to the modern chapel, which adjoins the ruin at Nurney, and it belongs to a neighbouring old church, at Harristovvn, as I have been informed, in a letter of Very Rev. Michael Comerford, P. P. , Monasterevan, and dated June 2nd, 1S85. The situation of this parish is marked on the "Ordnance Survey Town- land Maps for the County of Kildare," sheets 27, 31. The villige, townland, and demesne, so named, are marked on the same maps.
for the County of Carlow," sheet 12,
'° Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, pp.
I40, 141.
Article in. — ' Edited by Rev. Dr.
Kelly, p. xxv.
-See -"Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii.
Among the pretermitted saints, p. 233.
3 See it described, on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of
Louth," sheet 3.
*• This parish contains 3,305a. ir. I7p. ,
and it is shown on sheets 3, 4, 7- Il'id.
5 See Colgan's "Trias Thaumaturga," Quinta Appendix ad Acta S. Columbi-e, cap.
iv. , sect, iii. , pp. 507, 508.
* In the King's County.
? See Dr. O Donovan's "Annals of the
Four Masters," vol. i. , pp. 452,453.
« j^jjfgj ^y Qj-s. Todd and Reeves, pp.
140, 141.
9 See ibid. , pp. 464, 465.
'° This parish in the Barony of Tireragh is
shown, on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Sligo,"_ sheets 13, 19, 20. The townland proper is marked on
sheet 19.
" See Miss Owenson's "Patriotic Sketches
»» See ibid. , sheets 2, 3, 8. called Nurney, is on sheet 3.
Its townland,
'S It is shown, with tlie townlandso named, on the "Ordnance Survey Townland Maps
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a young peasant, for stones from his quarry to built up the cemetery wall, thus to save his parents' remains from desecration. "
Article IV. St. Ernine, or Erni:ius. The insertion of the name, Ernine, is found in the Martyrology of Tallagh,' at this date. The Bollan- dists' have it Ernimus—apparently an incorrect spelling—at the 30th of May, and on the previous authority. No clue is given, however, to find his place or his period.
Article V. Reputed Feast of St. Silay, or Silaus, Bishop at Lucca. The Acts, probably of St. Silaus, Bishop of Lucca—also called Silay—had been prepared for publication by Colgan,' as we find in the post- humous list of his Manuscripts, and he had intended to place them, at the 30th ofMay. ThiswasapparentlyontheauthorityofPhilipFerrarius,whostates that he died, a. d. 780, and on the Sunday after Ascension Day, in that same year. However, the Bollandists, who quote his authority for the statement, show, that the Sunday in question then fell on the 7th and not on the 30th
of May. " Father Stephen White 3 commemorates St. Silanus, at the 30th of May; and,PhilipFerarius,''also,seemstohavebeenhisauthorityforthat entry. We have already treated about St. Silaus, Bishop and Patron at Lucca, in Hetruria. 5
Article VI. St. Heyna or Hieu. [Sevefith Ce? itury. '] In the EngUsh Martyrology of John Wilson, the present holy virgin is commemo- rated, on this day ; while Philip Ferrarius ' and Arthur de Monstier ^ adopt the same arrangement. She is said to have been the first woman who em- braced a conventual life, at the instigation of St. Aidan,3 Bishop and Apostle oftheKingdomofNorthumbria. NotwithstandingtheopinionofJohnLeland, St. Hieu was a different person from St. Bees,* or Bega, as is shown by Dr. Smith, in his annotations on Venerable Bede ;5 and, Heina is said to have founded the monastery of Heorthu, over which she placed Hilla, and then she retired to Tadcaster. ^ A Saxon monastery was at this place, so early as 655 ; but, the church there was afterwards annexed to Sallay Abbey,?
of Ireland, written in Connaught," vol. ii. , 3 His Life may be seen, at the 31st of sketch xii. , pp. 9 to 13. August.
Article iv. — " Edited by Rev. Dr. •» See her Life, at the 6th of Septem-
Kelly, p. XXV.
' See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii.
Among the pretermitted saints, p. 233. Article V. —' See " Catalogus Actuum Sanctorum quae MS. habentur, ordine Men-
sium et Dierum. "
* See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii.
Amongthe pretermitted feasts, p. 233. They add: " festum autem agitur Lucas ipsa Dominica, et olim affixum fuit diei, quando vitam damns xxi. Maii. "
3 See "Apologia pro Ilibernia," cap. iv. , p. 40, cap. v. , p. 64.
* In "Catalogus Sanctorum Italic. "
5 See in the present Volume, Art. ii. , at the 2ist of this month.
Article vi. — • In "Catalogus Gene- ralis Sanctorum. "
* In Gynoeco Sacro.
ber.
s See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
Anglorum. " At lib. iv. , cap. 53, note.
'"St. Mar}-'s Tadcaster, is a market town and parish, chiefly in the upper division of tlie wapentake of Barkstone Ash, but partly in tlie west division of Ainstiy wapentake, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. This place
was the site of that Roman station Calcaria so named from the soil abounding with calx or limestone. It is situated on the naviga- ble River Wharfe, over which there is a handsome stone bridge. See Samuel Lewis' "Topographical Dictionary of England," vol. iv. , pp. 294, 295.
7 See the " Monasticon Anglicanum," by Sir William Dugdalc, Kl. . and edited by John Caley, F. R. S. , Henry Ellis, LL. B. , and the Rev. Bulkelcy Bandinel, D. D. ,
;
1787, fol.
9 See Cough's Camden's "Britannia,"
vol. iii. , p. 52.
" See "Annales Ecclesiae Britannicse,"
tomusii. , num. iii. , p. 294.
" See an interesting account of this saint
and of her Priory, in Sir WiUiam Dugdale's " Monasticon Anglicanum," &c. , vol. iii. , pp. 574 to 580.
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founded in 1146-7, by William De Percy the Third. ^ Others have it, that St. Heyna lived in Calcasester,? which is the original name given to the place, by Venerable Bede, when he speaks of St. Heina, who first took the veil in these parts. Her death is referred to a. d. 657, by Father Michael Alford,'° who thinks her to be the same as St. Bega, or Bee, of Copeland," in Cum- berland, referred by Wilson to the 6th of September, in the first edition of his Martyrology, and to the 22nd of November, in the second issue of his work. " The BoIlandists,^3 who have stated what precedes, remark, that in the ancient Martyrologies, they found nothing referring to her veneration; and that, if they met with further traces of it, they might treat about her, at the ist of October,'* or at the 22nd of November. 's She is said to have closed a holy life, at Tadcaster, on the 30th of May, a. d. 657. '^ We do not know, if she be the Heina, mentioned by Thomas Dempster,'? as having been veiled at Berwick. He states, that her time was uncertain, and she is said '^ to have written a Book of Hymns to the saints
; but, we should like to have better authority for this latter assertion, which
we do not believe can be sustained.
Article VII. Festival of St. Caidoc and Frechor or Adrian, Centule, Picardy, and Apostles of the Morini, in France. \Sixth and Seventh Centuries. '\ Already, at ist day of April,' we have treated about these holy missionaries ; but, their feasts are not confined to that day alone, asthe24thofJanuary^ andthe31stofMarch3 havebeendedicatedtotheir memory,asalsothepresent30thofMay. InanoldManuscriptKalendar, belonging to the church of Centule,* and in an old Kalendar published by D'Achery,5 their feast has been assigned to the latter day, which seems to
have been the one, according most with local tradition and former usage. The BoUandists, at this date, have Acts of these saints, Caidoc and Frechor or Adrian, in a historic commentary, consisting of eight paragraphs. ^ As we have already seen, they left Ireland for the Ponthieu district,? in Picardy, where,
vol. v. , pp. 510 to 516.
^ See Bishop Tanner's " Notitia Monas-
'5 The date given for St. Bega's festival, by John Wilson,
'^ According to Alford's " Annales Eccle-
sise Britannicse," tomus ii. , num. iii. , p.
Scotoruifi," tomus ii. , lib. viii. , num. 702,
^^ By the same Dempster.
Article vii. —' See the Fourth Volume of this work, Art. i.
= See First Volume, at that date, Art. ix. , regarding St. Caidoc 's reputed Feast.
^ See Third Volume, at that date, Art. ix.
* It states : " Coenobio Centula SS. Chaidoci, Fricorii, et Maldegisi, quorum duo primi B. Richario ad initium sancts conver- sationis Doctores fuerunt. "
tica ; or an Account of all the Abbies,
Priories, and Houses of Friers formerly in
England and Wales, and also of all the Col-
leges and Hospitals founded before a. d.
MDXL," edition by James Nasmith, M. A. , Yorkshire, sect, cv. , edition, Cambridge, p. 369.
" Alford says
Heina dicatur e Northumbriae Regibus de-
scendisse, Bega vero Hibernia Vocetur :
quia HibernicK Insults Northumbris vicing
frequinter sanguinem miscebant. "—"An- Caydoci, Adriani et Madegisli. "
:
'• Nee multum obest, quod
nales Ecclesiae Britannicse," tomus ii. , num. iii. , p. 294.
'3 See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii. Among the pretermitted saints, p. 235.
'* This is the date for the Feast of St. Bega, Virgin, in the additions of Greven.
^ See " Acta Sanctorum," tomus vii. De SS. Caidoco et Frechorio sive Adriano, Cen- tulse in Picardia, pp. 262, 263.
? Abbeville is its chief town, and the Ec- clesiatical History of this place has been written by Ignatius Joseph de Mana, a Dis-
294.
^^ See " Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis
^ In " Spicilegium," tomus x. It states: " Coenobio Centula Sanctorum Confessorum
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at Centule, under the charge of its first founder and Abbot, St. Richarius,^ they led a reUgious life, where they were interred, and wliere their relics were afterwards preserved. At Centule, the monks of St. Riquier possessed a considerable quantity of books,9 in the beginning of the ninth century. '" Besides the epitaph composed for St. Caidoc," by St. Angilbert," Abbot of Centule ; this learned and holy man composed another '3 for St. Fricor, his companion. During that time, when '+ the Abbot of Centule St. Gervin lived, '5 he had their remains removed from the earth, and enclosed in a silver shrine, adorned with precious stones. The relics were thus placed for public veneration. '^ A crypt or chapel, was built, likewise, by the same St. Gervin, and four altars were erected therein; while, among the relics of holy confessors, the name of Caydocus was to be found on the chief altar. The reader is re- ferred to what has been already stated, in the Life of St. Madelgisilus, which at this date, likewise, precedes the present account.
Article VIII. —Festival of the Nativity of St. Thomas. The "Feilire"' of St. . -Engus commemorates, at the 30th of May, the Feast of the Nativity of St. Thomas. Elsewhere, we cannot find any no- tice of such a festival. His chief feast in the Church is at the 21st of December; and, as his Acts have been recorded, in the general History of the Church and in the Hagiography of her Saints, we need not further allude to him in this connexion.
caked Cannelite. The first establishment of Christianity here seems to have been rooted out owing to the incursions of the Vandals and Hunns, until it was revived by our saint.
* His feast has been assigned to the 26th of April. Besides the Life of this holy man, as written by Alcuinus Flaccus, in tlie time of Charlemagne, there has been a metrical Life of him composed in Latin Hexameter verse,bytheAbbotIngelrammus. Inthis, allusion is thus made to our two Irish saints, in cap. ii. , thus :
" Tunc et Pontivus meruit splendes- cere pagus,
Forte Sacerdotum radians fulgure duorum.
Nomen majoris quorum fuerat Caido- cus,
Egregiis nieritis quos misit Hibernia nobis. "
' Among those was one noticed as " Bib-
liotheca integra ubi continentur libri Ixxii. in
uno voluinine," as also, " Bibliotheca dis-
persa in voluminibus 14. "—Chron. Centul.
iJ'Achery's " Spicilegium," tomus ii. , p. Breac " copy we have the following stanza, 3"-
'" See Rev. S. R. Maitland's "The Dark Ages ; a series of Kssays, intended to illus- trate the . State of Relii,'ion and Literature in the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," No. xii. , p. 195.
" See vol. iv. of this work, at April 1st, Art. i.
'• He departed this life on the iSth of February—the day for his feast—A. D. 814.
translated into English by Whitley Stokes, LL. D. :—
'^ These Latin Lines run as follows :
" Corpore terreno qui cernitur esse sepultus,
Gaudia pro meritis coelica Isetus habet.
Iste fuit Fricorus Chaidoco consocia- tus:
Quern sibi concessum Centula gau- det ovans.
Hievirtutevalensdespexitprospera mundi
Et modo viventi gloria magna patet.
Quando Deo placuit, ccelorum regna petivit :
Nunc Angilberti carmine fulget. Amen. "
'* According to a Manuscript " Chronicon Centulense " of Joannes Capella, and com- piled A. D. 1492, at num. 21.
'5 Hedieda. d. 1073,^^^^1hisfeastiskept on tlie 3rd of March.
" According to Ariulphus, in his " Chro- nicum Centulense,' lib. iv. , cap. 32.
Article viii. — ' In the "Leabhar
rioeb a^paL Ai\|riA'o<JC hipunoniAiti eciiAi gtiii CoiiiAii' cetioipne Pai]" eucAic cenecLAi.
" A holy Apostle of our God in a deep of wisdom, the nativity of Thomas without
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Article IX.
