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INDEX.
Abbots, 46; how elected, 68.
Abyssinia, founding of Church of, 13.
Adamnan, Abbot of Iona, Life of St. Columba, 59; visits Saxonland, 137; adopts and advocates Roman Easter, ib.; banished from Iona, ib.
Adrian, Pope, Bull of, 182.
Aidan, Saint, 91, 114.
Alexander III., Bull of, 183.
Anchorites, 84, sq.; not in earliest times, 88; enclosed, 86.
Anmchara or soul friend, 101; an adviser, not a confessor. ib.: resemblance to Old Testament prophets, 103.
Archbishop, title given to those who were not Metropolitans. 140.
Ardrigh, 28.
Armagh, rises to prominence in eighth century, 134; Book of, 138; influence of, on Romish side, 139: contest as to the abbacy of, 149, sq.; rule extended to Connaught, etc., 149, 150.
Augustine, Saint, of Canterbury, his work confined to south of England, 110; overtures to the British Church, 111; meets the British delegates, 112; curious test as to his character, 112.
Baithen. Abbot of Iona, 65.
Bede, 8.
Bega, or, Bees, Saint, 96.
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint, Life of Malachy, 8, 170; his description of the Irish Church, 171.
Bishops, position of, 46; great numbers of, ib.; fighting, 139.
Boromean tribute, 105.
Bridget, Saint, 91; bishops subject to, 92.
Brie, Saint Fara's monastery at, 95.
British and Irish Churches alike in doctrine, 112.
Brude, King of the Picts, 58.
Cædmon, 96.
Cashel, archbishopric of, 180; synod of, 184.
Celestius, 15.
​Celibacy, 43, 122.
Cellach, Bishop of Armagh, 165.
Chad, Saint, ordination of, 121.
Churches, dedication of, 47.
Cistertian Order, introduction of, 177.
Clane, synod of, 181.
Clement and Albin, 130.
Coarb, 99.
Coldingham, 97.
Columba, or Columkill, Saint, birth of, 54; founder of Derry, ib.; dispute with Finnian, 56; leaves Ireland, 57; preaching of, 58; death of, 65.
Columbian Order, decline of, 134, 148.
Columbanus, to be distinguished from Columba, 70; meaning of name, 71, 72; writings of, 71; settles in Burgundy, 72; banished by Theodoric, 73; reform of monasticism, 74; rule of, 74, 75; letter to the French bishops, 77; to Pope Boniface, 77, 78; to Pope Gregory, 78; on the supremacy of Rome, 80.
Comgal, monastic school of, at Bangor, 71.
Confession and absolution, 104.
Cooldreeny, battle of, 56, 101.
Cormac of Cashel, 154.
Cormac Mac Art, 33.
Corman, Bishop, fails to evangelize the Saxons, 113.
Cummian, 128.
Curse, ecclesiastical, 106.
Danes, 141, sq.; invasions of, 141; not as formidable as in England, 142; attacked the monasteries, 144; first appearance of, ib.; not religious enthusiasts, 145; settlements of, 156; retained their connection with England, 157; conversion of, 158; their bishops ordained at Canterbury, 160.
Dermaid, King, remarkable decision of, 55.
Dermot, King of Leinster, 182.
Deserts in Irish monasteries, 85.
Destruction of British Christianity, 53.
Druidism, 29, 42.
Dublin, Archbishopric of, 180.
Easter controversy, 116, sq., 126, sq.
Easter fires, 29.
Eastern monasticism, Irish resemblances to, 41; differences, 42.
Economist, 100.
Erenach, 100.
Family, ecclesiastical, 100.
Felim, Bishop and King of Cashel, 153.
Fintan, visit to Iona, 101.
Gall, Saint, 73.
Gelasius of Armagh, 169.
Georgia, founding of the Church of, 13.
Gilbert, first papal legate in Ireland, 161, 166.
​Gildas, 83.
Giraldus Cambrensis, 8.
Gregory, Pope, sends Augustine to England, 110.
Henry II., King of England, 181.
Hereditary succession in Irish bishoprics, 162.
Hilda, Saint, 95.
Holmpatrick, synod of, 178.
Honorius, Pope, letter of, 127.
Hugh de Lacy, death of, 185.
Immorality, charged against Irish Church, 187.
Iona, 58, 60, sq., 135; decline of, 136; attacked by Danes, 145.
Isolation of Irish Church, 53; increased by Saxon invasion of England, ib.'
Island of Saints, 50.
Justin Martyr, 11.
Jewish rites in Irish Church, 67.
Kells, the new Iona, 115; synod of, 179, sq.
Kildare, 91; illumination of manuscripts at, 93; sacred fire of, ib.
Learning in Irish monasteries, 71.
Lindisfarne, 114.
Maelsuthain, soul friend to Brian Boru, 103.
Malachy, Saint, appointed Bishop of Armagh, 167; ejected, 168; Life of, by St. Bernard, 8, 170; visits Rome, 176; death of, 179.
Mansuetus, 15.
Manuscripts, illuminated, 64.
Mellifont, 177.
Molaise, soul friend to Columba, 57.
Monastery, Irish, described, 40; for both sexes, 44, 95.
Monastic system of Irish Church, 14, 38, 66; origin of. 38; disadvantages of, 50; differs from modern monasticism, 177.
Monastic Rules, lax and strict, 83.
Needfire, 29.
Norsemen, not evangelized until a late period, 13.
O'Brolcan, Flaherty, 186.
Ordinations, difference of, between Rome and Ireland, 120; of Irish not admitted by Rome, 147.
Oswald, King of Northumbria, 113.
Palladias, 116.
Palls for Irish Archbishops, 176.
Paparo, Cardinal, visits Ireland, 179.
Paschal Controversy, 77. See Easter.
Patrick, Saint, captivity in Ireland, 17; writings of, 18; life in Britain, 22; biographies of, 8, 23, 139; connection with Gaul, 21; ​supposed mission from Rome, 24, 25; preaching of, 26; Breastplate, 34; evangelical doctrine preached by, 36; 'family' of, 47.
Picts, missions to, 54.
Prosper of Aquitaine, 15.
Saints, three classes of, 44.
Samthann, abbess, 94.
Scotland, name of, 57.
Scribes in eighth century, 131.
Scriptures, Celtic revision of, 132; vernacular translation of, 133; esteemed by the Irish, 134.
Secularization of the Church, 152.
Senan, Saint, 90.
Soul-friend, see Anmchara.
Supremacy of the pope rejected, 115.
Tara, 29; desertion of, 107.
Teaching of Irish Church, 66.
Teltown, synod of, 56.
Tonsure, 119, sq.
Transubstantiation, 173.
Tribal system, 27, 45, 56.
Trim, synod of, 186.
Tuam, archbishopric of, 180.
Turgesius, 142.
Virgil the Geometer, 131.
William the Conqueror, 159.
Women, ministry of, 89, sq.; Columba's objection to, 89.