The Irish standard., 1902-11-29
Hosts of Plous and Learned Men Went to
Other Nations to Civilize
the Inhabitants.
And Students Flocked From Every Country
Into Ireland to be Taught
Free of Charge.

I in Northumbria, and established the
See of Lindisfarne; ST. GALL preach
ed in Switzerland-the city and can
ton of st. Gall are called after him !;
SIS. ELOQUIUS, FARANAN, RU-
MOLD, FREDEGAND. HIMELIN
and many others preached in Bel
GUM.
ST. FlACRE of Ieux; his festival
is kept in France on August 1S. ST.
CATHALDUS, Bishop of Tarantum,
Italy, Of which place he is patron.
ST. FRIDOLIN, ''The Traveller" the
son of an Irish King, founded monas-
teries in various parts of France, in
Helvetia and on the Rhine. ST.
FERGIL, 'the Geometer," Bishop of
SaltZburg, France. ST. MAUSUE-
TUS, first Bishop Of Lorraine. ST.
SEDULIUS, Bishop Of Oreto in Spain.
ST. DONATUS was Bishop and pa
| tron Of Fiesole in Italy. ST. Kill
LIAM, Apostle of Franconia, mar
tyred July s, $50. ST. LIVINUS,
martyred in Flanders. ST. ALBUM,
Apostle of Upper Saxony, and hosts
of others.
This list of Irishmen who, by their
learning and piety distinguished them
selves in foreign countries, might be
extended far beyond it's present linn
its, but it would be objectionable to
omit from it the names of the most
famous Irish scholars, Clement and
Albinus, who We're placed by Charlie
ms gne over the universities Of Paris
and Pavia; Oh the still more celebrat-
ed name of John Scotus Erigena,
man of extraordinary learning and
| versatile powers Of mind, who has by
later writer's been described as "a
phenomenon for the times in which
he lived"
Several of the foregoing saints were
authors Of no mean repute: they wrote
numerous works on tine Scriptures
AMI OF. theological subjects, as we'll
they translated the Gospels into va
rious languages. What better evi-
dence than their learning, their faith,
their zeal, their austerities, their
courage, could possibly be given of
the excellence of the instruction and
training they had received amid the
i hi Of hn1
The following gives Il good idea of
the interior and exterior of the great
Monastic Schools of ireland of the
seventh and eighth Centuries: "The
superior cultivation and irrigation of
the sofia broad and even highway
l-the neater and more comfortable
appearance of the little skin thatched
wooden cottages around, the healthy
figures, the crosses on the stoves,
door-posts and gateways, and the
cleanly, thriving aspect of the burgh
or village yonder, with oil it's low.
feaved sl,ielings and sharp-buttressed
houses, unprotected by any circum.
valation, and open to all travellers
from the surrounding gardens to the
stone cross in it's market place, show
at once that the lords cf the soil are
no hard skmasters--betoken that
some bcneficient presiding influence
has been at work in the mental and
physical condition of the inhabitants
tell us, in fact, that we are on the
lands of an abbey.
Passing through the village, yor
| see the Brughnible, inviting some
ipoor strangers into the Beatach o.
house OF gratuitous entertainment
supported from the funds of th'
monastery, and shari II with it th'
honor of supplying rest and reflection
to the rilgrim, or traveller, or scholar
You are yet beyond the village ant
yet see no monastery; follow tina
broad and even way to the edge o
/: that grove of lonely oaks, through
. | the grove, until you come suddenl.
J ,pon cleared spot, with fine viey
If solDc hoary mountain or dee
! 'avinn, or smiling andscape-ther
S situated the monastery.
r "It is surrounded on all sides by
stone decentralization. called cathai
d