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 . or the llames of purgatory and hell, seen in hiswonderful tnince.^ According to various authorities, there are no less than eight differentfestival days, which should be considered sacred to this saints are, the i6th of January, the 6lh, ylh, and 25th of February, the 4thof March, the 17th and 28th of Sejitember, and the 26th of some difficulty may be experienced
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 . or the llames of purgatory and hell, seen in hiswonderful tnince.^ According to various authorities, there are no less than eight differentfestival days, which should be considered sacred to this saints are, the i6th of January, the 6lh, ylh, and 25th of February, the 4thof March, the 17th and 28th of Sejitember, and the 26th of some difficulty may be experienced, in determining exactly eachjjarticular memorial of the saint, affixed to these several days ; yet the readeris referred to days already mentioned for further notices concerning seem more properly assignable to succeeding pages and volumes otthis work. Article II.—St. Monoa or Monua, of Magh-Niadh, In Tuaith-Ratha, now Monea, in Tooraa, County of Fermanagh. The doubleexistence that most persons su[)port—that is, what men really are, and whatthey wish to be considered—is the source of many faults. To such pre-tensions we may trace most of our vexations and wretchedness. He is the. Monea Church, Co. Fermanagh. truly happy man, who forgets that insincerity of action followed by so many,and who remembers only that each is as he appears in the sight of hisCreator, and no greater. This was the wisdom of Gods true friends. As-signed to this day, in the MartjTologies of Tallagh and of Donegal,^ we findentered, Monoa, Virgin, of Magh-Niadh,3 in Tuaith-ratha.* The place was ^ See Rev. S. Baring-Goulds Lives ofthe Saints, vol. i., p. 245. Art. II.— Edited by the Rev. Dr. Kelly,p. xiv. The Franciscan version reads moriuA Edited by Drs. Todd and Reeves, , 19. 3 Gen. mhoighe niadh. William annotation. * Anglicized Tooraah, the district of the Jamuaky 16.] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. 387 identical with Monea, in Tooraa, county of Fermanagh.* It is now atownl
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