A Catholic Dictionary By We Addis And T Arnold PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...was to be expected, was partly composed in the vernacular and partly in Latin; but the bulk of it was in the Gaelic. The extant remains are still considerable; that they are not 1 History of the Church of Ireland, ii. 330. IRISH CHURCH yet more copious is explained by Professor O'Curry in a remarkable passage, which will be cited in a different connection further on. The English Beda bears ungrudging testimony to the high character of the Irish missionaries who had laboured in Northumbria, and to the general belief in the excellence of the Irish schools. "The whole solicitude of those teachers," he says, "was to serve God, not the world; their one thought was how to train the heart, not how to satisfy the appetite."' The special excellence of the Irish schools was the interpretation of Scripture; thus, about 650, Agilbert, a French bishop, resided a long time in Ireland "for the sake of reading the Scriptures."' Some years later (664) it became a common practice with the Northumbrian thanes to visit Ireland, either with a view to greater advance in the spiritual life, or for the sake of biblical knowledge," d ivina) lectionis." These last would go from place to place, attending the cells of the different masters; and so generous were the natives, that they provided for them all "their daily food free of cost, books also to read, and gratuitous teaching.'" The missionary energy of the Irish Church, commencing with a little island off the coast of Mull, which it made a basis for further operations, ended by embracing France, Switzerland, and Italy within the scope of its charity. St. Celumba, of whom Montalembert in his "Monks of the West" has given to the world a graphic...