The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-12


Bannockburn where considerable Irish contingent fought
under Bruce and probably in gratitude for the assist
ance then rendered that body of Scots shortly afterwards
sent to Ireland under Edward Bruce to aid the Irish in
polling the common enemy
The establishment of Christianity in Ireland took place
about the year A. D. $780, buff NJ Thiery is to be cred
ed and his statement which about produce can be
easily refued if it is not ruet not until the year
1914 that the Irish Church. founded by ST. Patrick,
nowledged the supremacy of the Roman Se During this
long interval of than six centuries the youth of Europe
resoed for their instruction. the colleges of Ireland and
scholars received ready welcome in almost every
continental court. Peace and plenty regned within her
borders the atchsrng hung the outside of every door
for the benefit of the passing stranger No foreign land
ground the faces of the poor for the wherewha to
make riot in London Paris The people, though living
under cheftain were all of them of the SOIL and
united fourshing, and Free Contrasting the halcyon
days of that PERIOD with those which have interviewed and
which surround us, may well exclaim-
The noble and polished nation that stood alone
AS illustration of the pey of those times and of the
contrast between the English AngoSaxon and Irish morals
that then prevailed, take from this work the story of
CoLUMBANs
Eight Roman monks successfully archbshops of CAM
terbur before that dignity instituted for the Saxons
attained by of that The of Augustn
did not the hope of compelling the clergy of Cam
ba to submit to their authority They overwhelmed the
Welsh clergy with citations and messages; they
tended their ambitious preenons the priests of Ern
independent the Brtons of all foreign supremacy and
jealous for the Christian fah that their country
named the Isle of Saints But this merit of sanctty without
complete submission to the power of the Roman Church. de
pEse Romoim nothing in the eyes of the members
of that Church, who had just succeeded in establishing their
dominion that part of Great Britain subdued by the
AngoSaxons They sent messages full of pride and bitter
the people of Erin We the deputies of the Apos
toc See in the western regions of late foolishy believed
in the reputation of your isle for sanctity but
assured of certainty better than the Brtons
The voyage of Columbian in Gaul and that of certain
Dagamman in Britain have fully satisfied of this for
among other things this Dagamman passed by the places
where reside and not only refused eat table, but
to take his repast in the house where were
This journey in Gau cited in proof of the pernicious
doctrines and perveson of the Christians of Hiberna
tanned circumstances which deserve be related Columbian
exactly Coum, commenced his Christian
missionary by traversng the passes and lakes of Northern
Britain in boat made of osiers covered with SKINS that
he might VISIT in the of Christ the savage
taneers of the Northwest. There there Christian
to convert pagan husbands and Column had neither
uncs embroidered with purple mantles of fine wool to
offer in the of Saint Peter; he poor, he often
repulsed and often in danger of his life He founded
there bshoprcks and styled himself bishop; only
he did establish rock of the Hebrdes school and a
monastery of poor and laborous like himself After
having, by his single efforts converted many people among
the Scots and Pcts he proceeded Gau with compan
on with the intention of preaching among the woodcutters
aud goatherds of the Vosge The of Erin rested at
the foot of the mountains spring of water in
the ruins of ancient village called Luxovium in the
Latin and Luxen in the German tongue. This place
part of the territory of Theodork, king of the Eastern
Franks who attracted by public rumor came to visit the
COlum.
much faer the powers of that day. took
occasion to deliver him sharp on the
immortality of life passed among women of abandoned
character These reproo less dpleasing the king
than the grandmother of the king the very Bruno
hide whose pety had been compaisany auded by Pope