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... institute such laws as the moral and political state of the country might seem to require . * St. Patrick and his companions pursuing their journey from Colp , the mouth of the Boyne , to the plain of Breg , in which the city of Tarah ...
... institute such laws as the moral and political state of the country might seem to require . * St. Patrick and his companions pursuing their journey from Colp , the mouth of the Boyne , to the plain of Breg , in which the city of Tarah ...
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... institute , attracted vast multitudes to her establishment , so that in the lapse of a few years it became very extensive , and Kildare formed what in those days might be called a considerable and populous town . This circumstance it ...
... institute , attracted vast multitudes to her establishment , so that in the lapse of a few years it became very extensive , and Kildare formed what in those days might be called a considerable and populous town . This circumstance it ...
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... institute throughout Ireland . This statement , however , proceeds solely from the unwarranted testimony of Cogitosus . He was an ecclesiastic of that diocese , and had , it may be presumed , availed himself of every opportunity to ...
... institute throughout Ireland . This statement , however , proceeds solely from the unwarranted testimony of Cogitosus . He was an ecclesiastic of that diocese , and had , it may be presumed , availed himself of every opportunity to ...
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... institute . St. Brigid , after having received the viaticum from St. Nennidh , was called to enjoy the reward of her labours , A.D. 523. This great saint left behind her a * Third Life ; Tr . Th . p . 625 . rule or body of constitutions ...
... institute . St. Brigid , after having received the viaticum from St. Nennidh , was called to enjoy the reward of her labours , A.D. 523. This great saint left behind her a * Third Life ; Tr . Th . p . 625 . rule or body of constitutions ...
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... institute ; likewise several tracts on the ascetic life ; a letter written in Irish to St. Aidus , and two poems on the merits of St. Patrick . The virtues of St. Brigid have been honourably recorded by all our martyrologists , and her ...
... institute ; likewise several tracts on the ascetic life ; a letter written in Irish to St. Aidus , and two poems on the merits of St. Patrick . The virtues of St. Brigid have been honourably recorded by all our martyrologists , and her ...
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Page 425 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 425 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 400 - This order, good brethren, is from our gracious king, and from the rest of our brethren, the fathers and clergy of England, who have consulted herein, and compared the holy Scriptures with what they have done; unto whom I submit, as Jesus did to Caesar, in all things just and lawful, making no question why or wherefore, as we own him our true and lawful king...
Page 166 - That is well said," observed Bonner ; " I see you are no anabaptist. How say you then to the presence of Christ's body and blood, in the sacrament of the altar...
Page 238 - set forth Henry's right to the sovereignty of Ireland in virtue of the Pope's authority, and inculcated the necessity of obeying him under pain of excommunication'. The English were not yet eight years in Ireland, the greater part of the country was still closed to them, but already the Irish were being excommunicated for refusing to become slaves. In Ireland, as in all Catholic countries...
Page 502 - Ireland, and for many other impediments (of which affidavit was made), I could not at the end of five weeks get the records and witnesses brought hither; I therefore begged for twelve days more, that I might be in readiness for my trial, which the Lord Chief Justice refused...
Page 358 - And, lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work should fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment for continuing it, if any man should have the good fortune. to survive this calamity, or any one of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, and live to continue what I have begun.
Page 365 - England and his heirs for ever, and by which grant the people of Ireland owe their obedience to the King of England, as their sovereign lord — it is therefore ordained that all Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland shall, upon the monition of forty days, proceed to the excommunication of all disobedient subjects ; and if such Archbishops or Bishops be remiss in discharging their duty in the premises, they shall henceforth be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds.
Page 71 - Apostles. For, as I have already said, we are attached to the chair of St. Peter ; and although Rome is great and renowned, yet with us it is great and distinguished only on account of that apostolic chair.
Page 425 - Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would' have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of...