CHAPTER VI.

SCHOOLS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY.

I.--THE SCHOOLS OF ARMAGH 110 Emania 111 Daire 111 Patrick founds Armagh 112 Ecclesiastical Buildings at Armagh 113 St. Benignus 114 Death of Benignus 116 The _Book of Rights_ attributed to Benignus 116 The School of Armagh, primarily a great Theological Seminary 117 The _Moralia_ of St. Gregory the Great 117 Gildas the Wise 118 His _Destruction of Britain_ 119 English Students at Armagh 119 Churches and Schools of Armagh burned and plundered between A.D. 670 and 1179 120 Imar O'Hagan 121 The _Book of Armagh_ 122 The Mac Moyres 124

II.--THE SCHOOL OF KILDARE 125 St. Brigid 125 St. Mathona 126 St. Ita 127 St. Brigid born at Faughart 128 Events of her marvellous history 129 Brigid's religious vows 130 Brigid founds Kildare 130 Brigid the "Mary of Ireland" 131 Monastery of Men at Kildare 132 St. Conlaeth 132 St. Ninnidhius 132 Great Church of Kildare 133 Six Lives of St. Brigid 133 St. Brogan Cloen 134 Cogitosus 135 Round Tower of Kildare 138 Perpetual fire of Kildare 138 Art of Illumination in the Monastic Schools of Kildare 139 The _Book of Leinster_ 140