COUNCILS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. VIII. THE CHURCH OF IRELAND FROM THE BEGINNING UNTIL THE ENGLISH CONQUEST, A. D. 350 (?) 1175. Period I.-Before S. Patrick. A.D. 350 ()-440 (?). Ad Scotos in Christum credentes ordinatus a Papa Cœlestino Palladius primus Episcopus mittitur. [PROSPER., Chron. in an. 431 (A.D. 455 × 463).] Period II.-S. Patrick, and the first Order of Irish Saints. A.D. 440 (?)-543Quem Deus misit ut Paulum ad Gentes Apostolum. [S. SECUNDIN., Hymn. in Laudem S. Patricii, v. 27 (shortly before A.D. 448).] Period III. S. Columba; Gildas; the Second Order of Irish Saints. A.D. 543-599. Hi ritum celebrandi missam acceperunt a sanctis viris de Britannia, scilicet a Sancto David, a S. Gilda, et a S. [Ca]doco. [CATAL. ORD. SS. IN HIBERNIA (C. A.D. 750).] Period IV.-The Third Order of Irish Saints. Easter Disputes. Missions. A.D. 599-665. Roma errat; Hierosolyma errat; Alexandria errat; Antiochia errat; totus mundus errat: soli tantum Scoti et Britones rectum sapiunt! [CUMMIAN., Epist. ad Segien. (A.D. 634).] Period V.-Termination of Easter Disputes. Missions. A.D. 665-795. Hibernia insula Scottorum sanctis viris plena habetur. [MARIAN. SCOT., in an. 674 (A.D. 1086).] Period VI.-Northman Invasions. Irish Teachers abroad. A.D. 795-1014. Quid Hiberniam memorem, contempto pelagi discrimine, pene totam, cum grege philosophorum, ad littora nostra migrantem? [ERRIC. AUTISSIOD., Pref. ad V. S. Germani (c. A.D. 881).] Period VII.-Ostmen in Ireland Christianized. Canterbury claim over Irish Bishoprics. Settlement of Diocesan Episcopacy in Ireland. A.D. 1014-1152. Cantuariensis Ecclesia, totius Angliæ, Scotia, et Hiberniæ, necnon adjacentium insularum mater. [EADMER, Hist. Nov., I. (A.D. 1122).] Period VIII.-Subjection of Ireland. Irish Church remodelled after the English pattern. A.D. 1152-1175. Insulas omnes [Papa] sibi speciali quodam jure respiciunt. [GIR. CAMBR., Hibern. Expugnat. II. 6; Opp. V. 320 (c. A.D. 1189).] CHURCH OF IRELAND FROM THE BEGINNING UNTIL THE ENGLISH CONQUEST, A.D. 350 (?)-1176. PERIOD THE FIRST. CHRISTIANS IN IRELAND OR OF IRISH BIRTH, BEFORE S. PATRICK. A.D. 350 (?)-440 (?). c. A.D. 350 (?). Mansuetus first Bishop of Toul, an Irish Scot®. ACTA TULLENS. EPISC.-Mansuetus primus Tullensium Episcopus nobili Scotorum genere oriundus. [ap. Martene et Durand., Thes. Nov. III. 991.] ADSO, V. Mansueti [end of 10th century]: Inclyta Mansueti claris natalibus orti Insula Christicolas gestabat Hibernia gentes; Unde genus traxit, et satus inde fuit. [ap. Ussher, De Antiq. Brit. Eccl., XVI.; Works, VI. 279.] So likewise Adso's prose Life of S. Mansuetus (Bosquet, Hist. Eccl. Gallic. I. ii. 23, sq.). See also Ussher (as above, pp. 296, sq.), Calmet (Dissert. prefixed to Hist. Eccl. et Civ. de Lorraine, p. xxvii., and Preuves, p. 86), Todd (S. Patrick, pp. 193, 194). Mansuetus was also the name of the first known Bréton A.D. 415, 416. Celestius the Pelagian an Irish Scot a. PORPHYRIUS [c. A.D. 415], ap. Hieron. ad Ctesiph. [Opp., IV. ii. 481; as quoted above in vol. i. p. 12]. HIERON., Comment. in Jerem., Prolog. [C. A.D. 416].-Ut nuper indoctus calumniator erupit, qui Commentarios meos in Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios reprehendendos putåt. Nec intelligit, nimia VOL. II. U |