The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-27
Its Origin and the Famous Folk Who
Have Borne 1t Copyright By FRANCES NarsAn

consisted of $4,000 cows, and as many
pigs. linen cloths, silver chains, withers
and copper caldrons; one huge copper
caldrou, capable of holding twelve pigs
and twelve lambs; thirty white cows
with red ears, with calves of the same
color and trappiDgs.
Such tribute would prove drain
on any community, but the men Of
Brian s country wero so busy collecting
cattle and silver chains and caldrons,
aud women were so busy looking after
the white cows with red cars, and the
little calves, that they never had much
time to rebel. Brian however, abol-
lshcd the tribute, and every, one was
happier.
The old chronicle says; "For il was
he that released the men of Erin and its
women from bondage and iniquity Of
foreigners and pirates. it was he that
gained five and twenty battles over the
foreigners, and who killed and banished
them. So it is no wonder that he was
feared and honored in his own day: that
In latter days he was ca)lcd the compeer
of Alfred the Great and OF Washing.
ton,
There were other saints and other
rulers who brought fame to some Of the
names Of health and strength
st. Fcrgil, or Vrgilius, was bishop of
Salzburg, and died in 7S5. Like Bridget
Of Kildare he was one of the niost
prominent of Irish saints. In 754 he
left his native land, and spent almost
all the rest of his life as missionary.
lie was successful and well liked. The
most serious charge the people of his
own time could bring against him WAS
that he taught that another world than
the earth existed, and that it was pco-
pied. In the days when Martians are
ii Ia,
charge does not seem very scrioua; al,
though. TO be sure, NIrgilius believed
the strange world he talked of to be
situated beneath the earth.
ST. Bridget, or Birgct, who lived in
Swedos in tho fourteenth century, was
one of the most popular saints of the
north, Her father was a legislator, and
her mother was the daughter of kings.
When she was ten years old, Bridget
announced her intention of entering a
monastery. But her family persuaded
her not to leave the world, and few
years later she WAS married to q young
Swedish prince named Ulf Gudmarsson.
Bird t and her husband lived hap
pill. they devoted themselves to the
care Of their eight children, and later
entered q religious order, and gave their
time to good works, After UIf' 's death
Bridget divided her fortune among her
children, and gave herself more than
ever TO religious order, and gave their
time to the Brightness, and then made
u pilgrimage to Rome, where she died.
Long before the days of Brian, king
of Leinster. come of the Latin names of
health were imperial names at Rome.
Valcriun and Valentine l., first of the
three emperors Of his name. arc their
most famous bearers.
Valcrian, u man of integrity and fl
deity, worked his way up in the army.
He came of noble and ancient family,
and was elected emperor by the army in
the year 25J
He was not quite strong enough. to
rule tho vast empire. He was conscien-
tiioous. hard working and just, but on
all sides his enemies made headway.
Finally ho was taken prisoner ut Edes-
sa by the Persian king, in 260, and died
within q year In prison
Valcatinc l., like Valerian, is noted
for his losses. Like yalerian, too, he
rose in the army, But Valentine was Of
humble and unknown family.
He and Valens his brother, shared the
throne from 364 TO 375, and iu their