Life of Saint Columba, Founder of HyEdmonston and Douglas, 1874 - 385 páginas |
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¹De abbatis abbot Adamnan Aedh ALIO in tempore ancient Annals of Ulster Armagh Baithene battle beati Bede bishop blessed Book of Armagh brethren Breviary of Aberdeen Broichan C. D. F. S. Boll Cainnech called CHAPTER church cille Coarb Colg Colgan Columba Columbanus Columcille Comgall Conall Conall Gulban cujus Derry dicens diebus Domini eadem ecclesia ejus ejusdem eodem erat etiam filii filius Four Masters fratres fratribus hæc Hibernia holy hora insula inter Iona Iouan island Hy ipse Ireland Irish Irish Calendar juxta Kells king Loch Lord manu monastery monks nunc O'Donnell omnia Orig parish Picts prophecy quæ quam quia Quibus quidam quod quoque saint sancti Columbæ Sanctus Scotia Ireland sunt supra tamen terra thou Tighernach titul usque valde verba verbum vero viri viro words
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Página 97 - LORD is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 9 O fear the LORD, ye that are his saints: for they that fear him lack nothing. 10 The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good. 11 Come, ye children, and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Página 354 - ... potestatis honorisque sui dignitate careat reamque se diuino iudicio existere de perpétrala iniquitate cognoscat et a sacratissimo corpore et sanguine Dei et domini redemptoris nostri lesu Christi aliena fiat et in extremo examine districte ultioni subiaceat Cunctis autem eidem loco...
Página 353 - Fionnghall, and his service and waking were honourably performed during eight days and eight nights, and he was laid in the same grave with his father in Teampal Oghrain in the year of our Lord 1380.
Página xxxi - Columba would degenerate into the foggy, unreal, species of narrative which belongs to the Lives of his contemporaries, and we should be entirely in the dark on many points of discipline and belief, concerning which we have now a considerable amount of satisfactory information. Adamnan's memoir is, therefore, to be prized as an inestimable literary relic of the Irish Church : perhaps, with all its defects, the most valuable monument of that institution which has escaped the ravages of time.
Página 294 - Donnan then went with his people to the Hebrides, and they took up their abode there in a place where the sheep of the queen of the country were kept. This was told to the queen. ' Let them all be killed,' said she. ' That would not be a religious act,
Página 252 - Alba, on the north : it is the confluence of many seas, from the west, from the east, from the south, and from the north ; each pouring itself into the place of the other, until they are swallowed down to the bottom, and until it is like an open caldron, sucking in and disgorging its draughts ; so that its roaring is like to distant thunder. And it was into this that Brecan, the son of Partholan, was drawn, and was drowned, with his fifty boats, when he fled out of Erin from his father.
Página clxi - Adamnan was a good man, according to the testimony of St. Beda, for he was tearful, penitent, given to prayer, diligent, ascetic, temperate ; he never used to eat except on Sunday and Thursday ; he made a slave of himself to these virtues ; and, moreover, he was wise and learned in the clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures of God.
Página 275 - It leaves the lake at Bona ferry, and, running north-eastwards for six miles, passes the town of Inverness, which derives its name from its situation at the mouth of the river, and falls into the Moray Firth.
Página 28 - But what is stranger still : to those who were with him in the church, his voice did not seem louder than that of others ; and yet at the same time persons more than a mile away heard it so distinctly that they could mark each syllable of the verses he was singing, for his voice sounded the same whether far or near.
Página 97 - These, 0 my children, are the last words I address to you — that ye be at peace, and have unfeigned charity among yourselves ; and if you thus follow the example of the holy fathers, God, the Comforter of the good, will be your Helper, and I, abiding with Him, will intercede for you ; and He will not only give you sufficient to supply the wants of this present life, but will also bestow on you the good and eternal rewards which are laid up for those that keep His commandments.