. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . abbot of Cork. In1134 the ancient monas-tery and School of Cork,which had fallen into de-cay, were ref ounded by thecelebrated Cormac Mac-Carthy, King of Munster.(See Finbarr, Saint.) Todd, Book of Hymns (Dub-lin, 1869), II; Healv, IrelandsAncient Schools and Scholars(Dublin, 1890); Latin Lives ofSt. Finbarr, ed. Caulfield(London, 1864); OHanlon,Lives of the Irish Saints, 25Sept.; Forbes in Diet, of , I, 266 sq.; Lanigan,Eccl. His
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . abbot of Cork. In1134 the ancient monas-tery and School of Cork,which had fallen into de-cay, were ref ounded by thecelebrated Cormac Mac-Carthy, King of Munster.(See Finbarr, Saint.) Todd, Book of Hymns (Dub-lin, 1869), II; Healv, IrelandsAncient Schools and Scholars(Dublin, 1890); Latin Lives ofSt. Finbarr, ed. Caulfield(London, 1864); OHanlon,Lives of the Irish Saints, 25Sept.; Forbes in Diet, of , I, 266 sq.; Lanigan,Eccl. Hist, of Ireland (Dublin,1829), II, 314 sqq. John Healy. Corker, Maurus, anEnglish Benedictine, b. in1636 in Yorkshire; d. 22 December, 1715, at Padding-ton near London. His baptismal name, James, he ex-changed for Maurus when he entered the order. On23 April, 1656, he took vows at the English Benedic-tine Abbey of Lamspringe near Hildesheim, in Ger-many, and returned to England as missionary in accused by Titus Oates of implication in thePopish Plot he was imprisoned in Newgate, but wasacquitted of treason by a London jury, 18 July, Qtjeenstown Harbour, Cork most of this poem still survives, and is printed in the■Leabhar Imuin or Book of Hymns (edited byJ. H. Todd, Dublin, 1855-69). The language is ofthe most archaic type of GaeHc, and is interspersedIiere and there with phrases mostly taken from Scrip-ture, but made to rhyme with each other as the Gaelic Hereupon he was arraigned for being a priest and sen-tenced to death, 17 January, 1680, Through influ-ential friends he was granted a reprieve and detainedin Newgate, ^^hile thus confined he is said to havereconciled more than a thousand Protestants to theFaith. (3ne of his fellow-prisoners at Newgate was CORMAC 373 CORNEILLE the saintly Oliver Plunket, Archbishop of Armagh,with wliom he formed an intimate friendship, andwhom he prepared for his martyrdom, which tookplace, 15 June, 1681. Some very interesting
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