The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-17

came the patron saint of Belgium, St. Gall founded monasteIies in Swift zerland; St. Columba went through France, Switzerland and Italy, teach ing and founding communities. At Bobbio. in Italy, is the last of the great series of mOnasteries he found ed. St. KilHan is the patron saint of Bavaria. One hundred and forty-five Irish saints are rovered in Germany; 5 in France, 30 il. Belgium, 13 in It. ally, eight in Scandinavia
 Hand-in-hand with the teaching and revival of the Christian faith by these missionaries, who came from the great monaSteries and schools of Ire land went the Irish scholars. Great IrtsA universities had sprung up at ClOnard, Armagh, Clonmacnois, Ban gor, L-ismore. Kildare and Innis Fal- len. From these and other places came the Irish scholars who founded Irish colleges at Salamanca CSpain) in 1898: Seville, 1912; AIcala, 1890; Douai, 15I7; Louvain. 1924: Antwerp, 1929: Lille, 1879; Bordeaux, 1903; LoulOuse, 1659 and Paris. 1895. Some of these names became well known during the recent war. The Germans burned the University of LOuvain. including the Irish College. The version of the Bible used by the Catholic Churca bears the name Douai.
 Thus learning was revived and, saved by the spirit and culture and sacrifice of the Irish scholars.
 Long before the British invaded. and subjugated a part of Ireland. there had been extant extraordinary traditions, poems and aIIegories which have given inspiration to many later writers. The imagination of the Irish
 
 Their deep religious feelings under Christian teachings led their bards and poets, their mystics and seers into high flights of imaginative po- etry. Isolde of Tristan and Isolde" was an Irish princess. Ancient Irish poets with whom Dante was familiar ha51 long before his Divine Comedy written down their conceptions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. The do- ings of ancient heroes, preserved in sagas, magnihed doubtless in great measure, have given rise to studies on the part of thousands of interested researches. Among those who wrote about the Irish sages was the late Theodore Roosevelt. The power of expression was long noted among the Irish and in modern times, as we'll as in ancient, finds fitting outlet in or atory and in verse
 Ireland has furnished some Of the greatest. orators in the world. Such names as O'Conneu, Grattan, Flood, Edmund Burke, Richard Labor Shell. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Curran, Robert Emmet, Thomas Francis Meagher, John F. Redmond, and Irishmen or Irish-deseende1 men in this country, like William Jennings Bryan, Bourke Copkran and thou sands of others are stamped upon the
 mind of the world as masters of speech Irish orators are almost all ways associated with great causes, such as liberty, democracy, personal freedom, peoples rights and love of nome, Of country and of sympathy with suffering anywhere in the world
 Ir1shmen of scientific attainments
 nave left their mark of the progress of the world. Lord Kelvin, the great 1 est physicist in the world, who caused
 the cable to be put across the Atlantic ocean; William R. Wilson, who first called attention to radium as source of permanent heat; Robert Boyle, 1 who promulgated the theory of
 chemical elements, destroying the old pehef III alchemy; Sir Hans Sloane,
 Whose bequest to the British nation caused the founding of the British
 Museum; John TyndaT, the great scientist; Robert Ball, the world
 known astronomer, are but a few of the 1rlshmen foremost in science, whose learning has enriched the world
 In ancient Ireland professions
 were hereditary Medical men were among those honored. Irishmn have ever been in the van in medicine. Dr. | Graves, for whom Graves disease is | named; Dominic Corrigan, for whom CoErigan's disease is named; William