An Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona, and of Their Settlements in Scotland, England, and IrelandJ. Ballantyne, 1811 - 417 pages |
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Page 223 - But as for you and your companions, you certainly sin if, having heard the decrees of the Apostolic See and of the Universal Church, and that the same is confirmed by Holy Writ, you refuse to follow them ; for, though your fathers were holy, do you think that their small number, in a corner of the remotest island, is to be preferred before the Universal Church of Christ throughout the world...
Page 185 - ... all round, expecting thereby to procure a favourable Wind, which the Credulous Tenant living in the Isle says never fails, especially if a Stranger wash the Stone ; The Stone is likewise applied to the sides of People troubled with Stitches, and they say it is effectual for that purpose. And so great is the regard they have for this Stone, that they swear decisive Oaths on it.
Page 191 - ... remained fixed in the middle of the passage, often causing shipwrecks. The blessed Baldred, moved by piety, ordered himself to be placed on this rock, which, being done, at his nod the rock was immediately lifted up, and, like a ship driven by...
Page 152 - Ireland,' he is to prove that the bell-tower of Brechin was built by Irish churchmen, about 1010, or a few years after the death of that King Kenneth MacMalcolm, of whom it is written in the Chronicle of the Picts, ' This is he who gave the great city of Brechin to the Lord.
Page 25 - I before the introduction of Christianity. A green eminence, close to the Sound of I, is to this day called the Druids burial-place. A cottager, some years ago, planting potatoes in this spot, and digging earth to cover them, brought up some bones, which the people of the island immediately concluded to be the bones of the Druids. The tradition is, that the first Christians banished the Druids and took possession of their seat.
Page 221 - Columbanus in France, that the Scots in no way differ from the Britons in their behaviour; for Bishop Dagan coming to us, not only refused to eat with us, but even to take his repast in the same house where we were entertained.
Page 241 - ... thy great wealth, thou attemptest, in thy wretched ambition and lust of domineering, to bring under thy jurisdiction thy neighbour provinces and nations, more noble, I will not say, in multitude or power, but in...
Page 65 - Qua ex causa necessario apud nos fit, ut per singulos annos seniores et praepositi in unum conveniamus ad disponenda ea quae curae nostrae commissa sunt...
Page 21 - Oran raised his swimming eyes, and said, "There is no wonder in death, and hell is not as it is reported".
Page 335 - Till the year 1152, they seem to have been properly Chorepiscopi, or Rural Bishops. In Meath alone there were fourteen bishoprics ; in Dublin thirteen. Their number, it is supposed, might amount to above three hundred. 3 They, in the same manner with the Scottish and Pictish bishops, exercised their functions at large, as they had opportunity. *