 | 1907 - 584 pages
...examined, they would prove to be actually pierced. Such beads were probably still in circulation at the close of the sixth or the beginning of the seventh century, to which period we are inclined to attribute the cross. The open-work acanthus on the sides is no bar... | |
 | Patrick E. Lynch - 1828 - 352 pages
...abbot of Ross-mae-treoin, now called Boss, not far from the river Barrow, in the diocese of Ferns, about the close of the sixth, or the beginning of the seventh century,* relates, that after St. Patrick had confirmed the inhabitants of Dublin in the Christian faith, by... | |
 | Richard Murray - 1840 - 194 pages
...the Pope, there is no mention. The elder Cumian, the disciple and biographer of Columba, who wrote at the close of the sixth, or the beginning of the seventh century, calls Patrick the first apostle of Ireland. Thus it appears, that while the Papal writers make Palladius... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1843 - 576 pages
...the pope, there is no mention. The elder Cumian, the disciple and biographer of Columba, who wrote at the close of the sixth, or the beginning of the seventh century, calls Patrick the first apostle of Ireland. Thus it appears, that while the papal writers make Palladius... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1844 - 512 pages
...the pope, there is no mention. The elder Cumian, the disciple and biographer of Columba, who wrote at the close of the sixth, or the beginning of the seventh century, calls Patrick the first apostle of Ireland. Thus it appears, that while the papal writers make Palladius... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 776 pages
...establish the Pope's supremacy. " The elder Cumian, the disciple and biographer of Columba, who wrote at the close of the sixth or the beginning of the seventh century, calls St. Patrick, the first apostle of Ireland. Thus it appears that while the papal writers make... | |
 | Richard Murray (dean.) - 1848 - 428 pages
...death. CENTURY The elder Cumian, the disciple and biographer of — '• — - — Columba, who wrote at the close of the sixth or the beginning of the seventh century, calls St. 'Patrick, the first apostle of Ireland. Thus it appears that while the ^ papal writers make... | |
 | 1855 - 408 pages
...have of Capernaum is in the itinerary of the credulous Antoninus of Placentia, belonging, probably, to the close of the sixth or the beginning of the seventh century : " Deinde (seil. Tiberiade) venimus in civitatem Capharnaum in domuni B. Pétri, quse est in Basilica."... | |
 | Andrew Miller - 1874 - 648 pages
...considered as identical and were known by the general appellation of Scots. THE IONA MISSIONARIES. About the close of the sixth, or the beginning of the seventh century, missionaries began to issue from the cloisters of lona, carrying the light of Christianity not merely... | |
 | James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - 550 pages
...south of Scotland were converted to Christianity ; but those in the north did not embrace it until the close of the sixth or the beginning of the seventh century. The pillars with crosses and other Christian symbols engraven on them must therefore have been erected... | |
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Patrick the first apostle of Ireland. Thus it appears, that while the papal writers make Palladius the first apostle, and take no notice of Patrick, the Irish make Patrick the first, and take no notice of Palladius. The hymn of Fiech, of the same antiquity,... 
