Lives of the Irish saints : with special festivals, and the commemorations of holy persons, compiled from calendars, martyrologies and various sources, relating to the ancient Church history of Ireland . ayo. Sheet 114. 7 See his life, written at the 8th of August,the day for his festival. See Archdalls Monasticon Hibemi-cum, p. 497. 9 His feast appears to be assigned to July23rd, but at that date the St. Coencomhracvenerated does not seem to have had con-nexion with the Mayo Inis-Bo-Finn. ° For this statement, Archdall quotesYard, p. 159. According to exact historic accounts,his name comes ne
Lives of the Irish saints : with special festivals, and the commemorations of holy persons, compiled from calendars, martyrologies and various sources, relating to the ancient Church history of Ireland . ayo. Sheet 114. 7 See his life, written at the 8th of August,the day for his festival. See Archdalls Monasticon Hibemi-cum, p. 497. 9 His feast appears to be assigned to July23rd, but at that date the St. Coencomhracvenerated does not seem to have had con-nexion with the Mayo Inis-Bo-Finn. ° For this statement, Archdall quotesYard, p. 159. According to exact historic accounts,his name comes next to that of St. Colman,the founder of this very celebrated monas-tery. January 14.] LIVES Of THE IRISH SAINTS. X97 islands, named Inis-bo-finne in Ireland; one of these is in the county ofDonegal, near Tor> Island, while the other is situated in Lough Ree, on theRiver Shannon. Neither of these islands, however, is of such celebrity asthis Western Inis-bo-finne, which Dempster has sought even to connectwith Scotland. |3 Remote as its situation was, for centuries the voice ofprayer and the song of praise to God rose above the murmurings of the wildAtlantic waves that surged around its »*-
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