The life of St. Patrick and his place in history

IN GAUL AND BRITAIN 37 § 1. At Lérins 37 § 2. At Home in Britain 41 § 3. At Auxerre 48 § 4. Palladius in Ireland (A.D. 431-2) 54 § 5. Consecration of Patrick (A.D. 432) 59

FOUNDATION OF ARMAGH AND ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANISATION 150 § 1. Visit to Rome (_circa_ A.D. 441-3) 150 § 2. Foundation of Armagh (A.D. 444) 154 § 3. In South Ireland 162 § 4. Chur...

I. WRITINGS OF PATRICK, AND DOCUMENTS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY:— 1. The _Confession_ 225 2. The Letter against Coroticus 227 3. _Dicta Patricii_ 228 4. Ecclesiastical Canons of St....

1. The Home of St. Patrick (_Bannauenta_) 322 2. Irish Invasions of Britain 325 3. The Dates of Patrick’s Birth and Captivity 331 4. The Place of Patrick’s Captivity 334 5. Tent...

The series of movements and wanderings, settlements and conquests, which may be most fitly described as the expansion of the German and Slavonic races, began in the second centu...

The conversion of Ireland to Christianity has, as we have seen, its modest place among those manifold changes by which a new Europe was being formed in the fifth century. The be...

Patrick has not told us where, or in what circumstances, he parted from his companions, nor has he related his subsequent adventures. When he found himself free his first though...

Nowhere more conspicuously than in Ireland have secular institutions determined the manner in which the Christian religion spread and increased. The introduction of that religio...

The spot where the river Vartry, once the Dee, reaches the coast, just north of the long ness which runs out into the sea at Wicklow, has a historical interest because this litt...

It has been already pointed out that the Roman terminus did not mark the limit of Roman influence. That influence extended beyond the bounds of the Empire. The existence of the...

It is uncertain how long Patrick had been in the island before he set forth to accomplish the thing which had been the dream of his life, the preaching of his gospel in the west...

It is possible that Patrick had intended in earlier years to visit Rome long before he began his labours in Ireland. If he entertained such a thought, it would seem that circums...

Christianity had been introduced among the Picts of Galloway at the beginning of the fifth century by the labours of a Briton, who is little more than a name. Ninian, educated a...

Two extreme and opposite views have been held as to the scope and dimensions of St. Patrick’s work in Ireland. There is the old view that he first introduced the Christian relig...

authorship or date for the composition of Part I.; inasmuch as the subject matter of this part (Patrick’s childhood, youth, arrival in Ireland, and the Tara legend) did not offe...

the Antonines) in Faugh Mountain, near Pleaskin, Giant’s Causeway, Co. Antrim; cp. also _ib._ 186-7; _ib._ vi. 441 _sqq._ (1856), a paper by Petrie on coins of the Republic foun...

P. 16.—Calpurnius: _Confession_, 357₄ (Armagh MS. has _Calpornum_; Cotton MS. _Calpornium_; Brussels MS. of Muirchu, _Cualfarni_, 495₇). Properly a _nomen_, but, like other _nom...

P. 37.—Patrick at Lérins. _Dictum Patricii_, see above, App. A, i. 3; Tírechán, 302₂₃ _erat hautem in una ex insolis quae dicitur Aralanensis annis xxx, mihi testante Ultano epi...

P. 74.—Solar worship. Patrick, _Confession_, p. 374. Cormac’s _Glossary_, _s.v._ indelba. It has been suggested that a circle on an inscribed (ogam) stone, which seems to be ori...

P. 81.—Patrick’s landing-place in Ireland. Muirchu, p. 275. Palladius had landed at the same place (_Vit. Trip._ p. 30; V₂, 24 and 25). Todd (_St. Patrick_, 338 _sqq._) thought...

P. 102.—Foundation of Trim. _Additional Notes_, 334-6 (translation with notes in Todd’s _St. Patrick_, 257 _sqq._). The name of the wife of Fedilmid is given as Scoth Noe (= _fl...

P. 127.—Amolngaid. The name occurs on a gravestone at Breastagh, north of Killala, in King Amolngaid’s country: maq(i) Corrbri maq(i) Ammllongatt—“(monument of ...) of the son o...

P. 151.—Relics. For the notices in Tírechán see App. C, 16. The relics at Armagh are also mentioned in _Liber Angueli_, 354. A ridiculous story was afterwards invented that Patr...

P. 187.—Bishop Nynias, generally called Ninian, see Bede, _H. E._ iii. 4. This passage in Bede furnishes the only trustworthy tradition about Nynias. His expression _ut perhiben...

P. 190.—Ceretic or Coroticus. The only source for the following events is Patrick’s _Letter_ (see below); but the identification of Coroticus, who is the subject of the _Letter_...

a Welsh source. In the last quarter of the sixth century, in the time of Columba, Rodercus, or Rhydderch, reigned at Alcluith (Adamnan, _V. Col._ i. 15: Rodercus filius Tothail...

P. 218.—Latin the ecclesiastical language in the west. Since these remarks were written, I came across two short but valuable papers on the subject: P. Frédéricq, “Les conséquen...