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An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland from the Introduction of Christianity Into That Country to the Year 1829 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1840 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. Successors of St. Patrick--Episcopal Sees--Religious foundations of the fifth century The attention of the reader having been hitherto almost exclusively directed to the important labours of the Apostle himself; our next object must be, to examine with the same care and impartiality all the other portions of this ancient and venerable superstructure. On the demise of St. Patrick Benignus, his constant missionary companion and favourite disciple, was, with the unanimous voice of the prelates, priests and people, appointed his successor, and accordingly (A. D. 465,) he entered on the duties of his office, as Archbishop of Armagh and Metropolitan of Ireland.f While St. Patrick was employed in Connaught, the missionary labours of Benignus in several parts of that province are frequently mentioned and honourably extolled. However, it was in the district of West Munster, or Kerry, and in some portions of the now county of Clare not visited by our Apostle, that Benignus gave splendid proofs of his zeal for religion, and of his anxious desire for the conversion of his countrymen. St. Patrick entrusted him with the mission of those remote places, although he had been at the time only a priest, and so great were his services and such the veneration in which he was held, that the people of that country always considered It may not be amiss to notice a most important mistake into which Colgan and others had unaccountably fallen, by introducing a Patritius styled senior, as successor of the Apostle, and immediately preceding Benignus. The fact is, this Patritius senior, or as the Tripartite has it, Sen-Patrick, is no other than St. Patrick himself, to whom in his old age, the appellation senex-unior had been applied by some of our annalists.--Sec Lanigan, ...
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