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 . it seems to have been a patrimonial in- est legi ; si antem morluus fuerit vir ejus, heritance. soluta est lege viri, Rom. vii., 2. thus See Dr. Reeves Ecclesiastical Anti- the words used by Colgan necessarily pre- quities of Down, Conor and Dromore, Ap- suppose, in a scholastic sense, the wifes pendix A, p. 157. There, it is calculated, death. that Moville or Maghbile Monastery had I mean rea


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 . it seems to have been a patrimonial in- est legi ; si antem morluus fuerit vir ejus, heritance. soluta est lege viri, Rom. vii., 2. thus See Dr. Reeves Ecclesiastical Anti- the words used by Colgan necessarily pre- quities of Down, Conor and Dromore, Ap- suppose, in a scholastic sense, the wifes pendix A, p. 157. There, it is calculated, death. that Moville or Maghbile Monastery had I mean real bishops and regularly con- been founded about the year 540. January 13.] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. ^^7 called away from life. On the death of Duach or Dubtach 1., which tookplace in the year 512,° St. Alild I. was appointed to succeed, as Archbishopof Armagh and Primate of Ireland. Our saint sustained the honours of thisexalted station for a continuance of thirteen years. During this period, hismerits and virtues were found fully c^Mal to that great trust reposed in hiskeeping. Full of years and of virtues, he passed out of this life, on the 13thday of Januar)-, in the year of salvation, The Site of the Old Cathedral, Armagh. He was succeeded in the Archicpiscopal See of Armagh, by St. Alild II. Pand from the concurrent circumstances of both distinguished persons bearingthe same name, claiming the same family origin,* and coming in an im- •See Appendix , p. 376. At this year, we have the followingentry : Dubhtach, , of Druim-Dcarbh,Bishop of Anl .Macha [Armagh], rcsigne year, we have the followingentry; Ailill, IJishop of Armagh, whowas of the Ui Krcasail, dic<l. .Sec UDono-vans Annals of the Four Mxsters, vol. i.,^i. 172. 173. In note (a), on this entry,r. ODonovan says, in reference to the Li-Brea&gt


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