ST. MALACHY OF ARMAGH***


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Translations of Christian Literature. Series V
Lives of the Celtic Saints

S^T BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX'S
LIFE OF S^T MALACHY OF ARMAGH

by

H. J. LAWLOR, D.D., LITT.D.







Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

The Macmillan Company.
London
New York
1920

Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Brunswick St.,
Stamford St., S.E. 1, and Bungay, Suffolk.




CONTENTS


                                                 PAGE

  PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO               vii

  NAMES OF IRISH PERSONS AND PLACES                 x

  INTRODUCTION                                    xii

  LIFE OF ST. MALACHY                               1

  LETTERS OF ST. BERNARD                          131

  SERMONS OF ST. BERNARD ON THE PASSING OF
      MALACHY                                     141

  ADDITIONAL NOTES:--

    A.--ST. BERNARD'S DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE
        OF THE IRISH CHURCH                       161

    B.--THE HEREDITARY SUCCESSION OF THE COARBS
        OF PATRICK                                164

    C.--MALACHY'S CONTEST WITH NIALL              167

  APPENDIX                                        171

  INDEX                                           172




PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO


A. T.C.D. MS. F. 4, 6, containing the _Vita S. Malachiae_ and a portion
of _Sermo_ ii. imbedded therein. Cent. xiii.; copied from a much earlier
exemplar.

AA.SS. _Acta Sanctorum._

A.F.M. _Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters_, ed. J.
O'Donovan, 1851.

A.I. Annals of Inisfallen, in O'Conor, _Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores_,
1814-1826, vol. ii.

A.L.C. _Annals of Loch Ce_, ed. W. M. Hennessy (R.S.), 1871.

A.T. _Annals of Tigernach_ (so called: see J. MacNeill in _Eriu_, vii.
30), ed. W. Stokes, in _Revue Celtique_, xvi.-xviii.

A.U. _Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annals of Senat_, ed. W. M. Hennessy
and B. MacCarthy, 1887-1901.

Adamnan. The Life of St. Columba, written by Adamnan, ed. W. Reeves
(Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society), 1857.

Archdall. M. Archdall, _Monasticon Hibernicum_, 1786: the earlier part
ed. by P. F. Moran, 1873.

C.M.A. _Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin_, ed. J. T. Gilbert
(R.S.), 1884.

_Cant._ S. Bernardi Sermones in Cantica, in _P.L._ clxxxiii. 779 ff.
(1879): English Translation by S. J. Eales, _The Life and Works of St.
Bernard_, vol. iv., 1896.

Colgan, _A.S.H._ J. Colgan, _Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae_, Lovanii, 1645,
tom. i.

D.A.I. The Dublin Annals of Inisfallen, Royal Irish Academy MS. 23, F.
9.

_De Cons._ S. Bernardi _De Consideratione Libri V._, in _P.L._ clxxxii.
727 ff. (1879): English Translation by G. Lewis, 1908.

_De Dil._ S. Bernardi _De Diligendo Deo_ in _P.L._ clxxxii. 973 ff.
(1879). English Translations by M. C. and C. Patmore, second ed., 1884,
and E. G. Gardner, 1916.

Dugdale. W. Dugdale, _Monasticon Anglicanum_, ed. J. Caley, H. Ellis and
B. Bandinel, 1817-30.

Eadmer. Eadmeri _Historia Novorum in Anglia_, ed. M. Rule (R.S.), 1884.

_Ep._ S. Bernardi Epistolae in _P.L._ clxxxii. 67 ff. (1879): English
Translation in S. J. Eales, _The Life and Works of St. Bernard_, vols.
i.-iii. (1889-1896).

Giraldus, _Expug._; _Gest._; _Top._ _Giraldi Cambrensis Opera_, ed. J.
S. Brewer, J. F. Dimock and G. F. Warner (R.S.), 1861-1901. _Expugnatio
Hibernica_, vol. v. p. 207 ff.; _De Rebus a se Gestis_, vol. i. p. 1
ff.; _Topographia Hibernica_, vol. v. p. 1 ff.

Gorman. _The Martyrology of Gorman_, ed. W. Stokes (Henry Bradshaw
Society), 1895.

Gougaud. L. Gougaud, _Les Chretientes Celtiques_, 1911.

Gwynn. The Book of Armagh, ed. J. Gwynn, 1913.

J.R.S.A.I. _Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland_:
references to volumes according to the consecutive numbering.

Jaffe. _Regesta Pontificum Romanorum_, ed. P. Jaffe, 1851.

John of Hexham. _Historia Johannis Prioris Hagustaldensis Ecclesiae_, in
_Symeonis Monachi Dunelmensis Opera Omnia_, ed. T. Arnold (R.S.), ii.
(1885), 284 ff.

K. Codex Kilkenniensis; Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS. Z. 1.5, containing
the _Vita S. Malachiae_. Cent. xv.

Keating. G. Keating, _History of Ireland_, ed. D. Comyn and P. S.
Dinneen (Irish Texts Society), 1902-1914.

L.A.J. _County Louth Archaeological Journal._

L.B. Leabhar Breac, Royal Irish Academy MS. (Facsimile ed. 1876.)

Lanigan. J. Lanigan, _An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland... to the
Beginning of the Thirteenth Century_, 1829.

M.G.H. _Monumenta Germaniae Historica._

Mansi. _Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima Collectio_, ed. J. D.
Mansi, 1759-1798.

O.C.C. _The Book of Obits and Martyrology of the Cathedral Church of the
Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin_, ed. J. C.
Crosthwaite and J. H. Todd (Irish Archaeological Society), 1844.

Oengus. _The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee_, ed. W. Stokes (Henry
Bradshaw Society), 1905.

O'Hanlon. J. O'Hanlon, _The Life of Saint Malachy O'Morgair_, 1859.

O'Hanlon, _Saints_. J. O'Hanlon, _Lives of the Irish Saints_, vols.
i.-ix., 1875-1901.

P.L. _Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina_, ed. J. P. Migne.

Petrie. G. Petrie, _The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland...
comprising an Essay on the Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of
Ireland_,