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Title: Ireland's ancient schools and scholars
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Healy, John, Abp. of Tuam, 1841-
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Publisher: Dublin : Sealy Ryers & Walker&lt
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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nd forseven years abode in the island of Eathlin OBirne. Thenhie monks sought him out, and after much labour foimd him 162 MINOR MOiNASTIC SCHOOLS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY. in tlie mouutain glens, and tried to bring him home to hisown monastery at Elphin. But he fell sick by the way, anddied with them in the wilderness. So they buried thevenerable old man in the churchyard of E-ath Cunga~nowRacoon, in the barony of Tirhugh, County Donegal. Theold churchyard is there still, though now disused, on thesummit of a round hillock close to the left of the road fromBallyshannon to Donee:al, about a mile to the south of thevillage of Ballintra. We sought in vain for any trace of aninscribed stone in the old churchyard. He fled from menduring life, and, like Moses, his grave is hidden from themin death. The artistic spirit, however, remained in Elphin; and, aswe shall see hereafter, some of the most beautiful works ofthe twelfth centur\ were designed and executed by thespiritual sons of St. Asicus.
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CHAPTER yill. IRISH SCHOOLS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY. THE MONASTIC SCHOOL OF ST. ENDA OF ARAN. * Youll see the homes of holy men Far west upon the shoreless main—In sheltered vale, on cloudy Ben, Where saints still pray, and scribes still penThe sacred page, despising gain. —MGree: lona to Irela7id. I.—Life of St. En da of Aran. If we accept the authority of the Catalogue of tlie ThreeOrders of Irish Saints, those of the fifth century were mainlymissionaries ; those of the sixth century were cenobites ; andthe Third Order were for the most part anchorites, or Cul-dees as they afterwards came to be called. To a certainextent this is true. The Church of the sixth century partookvery much of the monastic character; as Skene says, Therewas episcopacy in the Church, but it was not diocesan epis-copacy.*^ We should be inclined to accept this statement,if the learned writer had inserted one word, and said that itwas not always diocesan episcopacy. In lona, and doubtlessin other great monas

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