Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . -59), Stokes; Tripartite Life, p. 322; L. Br. Homily on Patrick (, op cit., p. 474-475); Jocelin of Furness, Vita Patricii, xvii, 150(Boll., Acta SS. March, II, p. 571). 13 Teschendorf, Evangelica Apocrypha, xvi, 283. See Eose JeffriesPeebles, The Legend of Longinus in Eccles. Traditions and in , and its connection with the Grail, [Bryn Mawr Col. Mono-graphs, ix], Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1911, p. 8. 14 Felire Oengusso, ed. Whitley Stokes, London, 1905, p. 218; FelireHui Gormdin, ed. Wh. Stokes, London, 1


Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . -59), Stokes; Tripartite Life, p. 322; L. Br. Homily on Patrick (, op cit., p. 474-475); Jocelin of Furness, Vita Patricii, xvii, 150(Boll., Acta SS. March, II, p. 571). 13 Teschendorf, Evangelica Apocrypha, xvi, 283. See Eose JeffriesPeebles, The Legend of Longinus in Eccles. Traditions and in , and its connection with the Grail, [Bryn Mawr Col. Mono-graphs, ix], Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1911, p. 8. 14 Felire Oengusso, ed. Whitley Stokes, London, 1905, p. 218; FelireHui Gormdin, ed. Wh. Stokes, London, 1895, pp. 54-55. 15 Edit. R. Atkinson, The Passions and the Homil. from Leabhar Breac[Todd Lecture Series, II], Dublin, 1887, pp. 60-64. 300-304. For date,see J. Vendryes, in Bevue Geltique, xxxii, 1911, p. 351. 16Eegarding the wound in the side of Christ, see Tillemont, Memoirespour servir a V histoire ecclesiastique, I, p. 455. 17 Andreas Schmid, Die Seitenwunde Christi (Zeitschrift f. christlicheKunst, xxi, 1908, 217-218). Plate X] [To face page 13*1. Figures 10 to 13.—The Crucifixion as Carved on Irish Crosses and Sla10. Monasterboice. 11. Kells. 12. Carndonagh. 13. Iniskea. IEISH OF THE CRUCIFIXION 135 of the Passio Longini, it appears that Longinus split the heartof Christ in twain, from which issued out blood and wine (s«c).18An opposite opinion is to be found in the tract on the Mass com-posed in Irish prior to the 11th century and preserved in thewell-known Stowe Missal. The passage refers to the symbolismof the particle which the priest breaks from the wafer during theMass. The particle, so the tract has it, that is cut off fromthe bottom of the half which is on the [priests] left hand is thefigure of the wounding with the lance in the armpit of the rightside. 19 It is reported in the Passion of Longinus, above mentioned, thatat the very moment when the heathen soldier wounded Christ,the light of faith illumined the eyes of his soul, so that herenou


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