CHAPTER XVI.

THE SCHOOL OF BANGOR.

I.--ST. COMGALL OF BANGOR 364 Birth and parentage 365 Comgall enters the Monastery of Fintan 366 He visits Clonmacnoise, and receives the priesthood 367 Description of Bangor 367 St. Columba visits Comgall at Bangor 368 The fame of Comgall attracts crowds to Bangor 369 Death of Comgall 370

II.--ST. COLUMBANUS 370 His early life 371 Goes to Cluaninis and places himself under the care of Sinell 372 He enters Bangor 372 Preaches the Gospel in Gaul 373 He buries himself in the depths of the forest 373 Increase of Disciples 374 Founds a monastery at Luxeuil 375 Columbanus and his Irish Monks banished from Luxeuil 376 They establish themselves at Bregentz 376 He founds the Monastic Church of Bobbio 378 Death of Columbanus 378 His writings 379 The _Bobbio Missal_ 380 The _Antiphonarium Benchorense_ 381

III.--DUNGAL 381 Theologian, astronomer and poet 381 Dungal was an Irishman 382 Probably educated in the School of Bangor 382 Dungal goes to France 382 His Letter to Charlemagne on the two solar eclipses said to have taken place in A.D. 810 383 He opens a school at Pavia 385 The last struggle of Western Iconoclasm 385 The _Libri Carolini_ 386 Synod of Frankfort 386 The Council of Nice 387 The Paris Conference 388 Claudius of Turin 389 _Dungali Responsa contra perversas Claudii Taurinensis Episcopi Sententias_ 390 Character of Dungal's writings 391 His death 392

IV.--ST. MALACHY 393 Sketch of his life 393 He rebuilds the monastery at Bangor 394 Becomes Bishop of Connor 394 Founds the _Monasterium Ibracense_ 395 Malachy transferred to the Primatial See 395 Difficulties in Armagh 395 Malachy honoured at Rome by Pope Innocent III. 396 Death at Clairvaux 397