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The second vita of St Féchín printed by John Colgan in his Acta sanctorum Hiberniae. Colgan made use of three Irish sources, which he conflated and translated into Latin to produce a composite text. The first life he found in a manuscript associated with Féchín's monastery in the island of Omey (vnam fusam ex Codice Immaciensi in Connacia, quam eius compilator aliàs recentior ... indicat ... desumptam esse ex alia latina); the second life is described as aliam habemus stylo plane uetusto et magnae fidei, sed principio et fine carentem. Plummer suggests that these lives must have corresponded to the vernacular life and homily found in NLI MS G 5. The third source is a metrical version now lost (tertiam uero uetusto et eleganti metro lxxiv distichis constante).
Latin Life of St Fintan of Clúain Eidnech (Clonenagh, Co. Laois). It is reckoned among the so-called O’Donohue saints’ Lives. BHL 2994.
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A 10th-century Latin account of the life and miracles of St Fridolin, missionary and reputed founder of the monastery of Säckingen. The text was written by Balther, a native of Säckingen, who had been a monk of St Gall and became bishop of Speyer in 970. Balther added a prologue in which he claimed that he drew on an earlier vita from an unnamed monastery near the Moselle and that he had memorised its contents before writing down his account. Balther claims that Fridolin came from Ireland, although this may well be an afterthought. BHL 3170.
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Latin account of the life and miracles of St Gall, one of Columbanus’ disciples and founder of St. Gall, written by Walahfrid Strabo. It was written to supersede Wetti’s reworking of an earlier life of the saint (Vita vetustissima) and like Wetti’s version, was commissioned by Gozbert, abbot of St. Gall. BHL 3247-3249.
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Latin account of the life and miracles of St Gall, one of Columbanus’ disciples and founder of St. Gall, written by Wetti (Wettinus), a monk of Reichenau (d. 824). It was commissioned by Gozbert, abbot of St. Gall, to whom a metrical prologue is dedicated. BHL 3246.
A metrical version of Walahfrid Strabo’s Life of St Gall(us), founder of the abbey of St. Gall. While Walahfrid announced such a text in his prose Life, it seems that he did not live to carry out the plan, at least if one follows Walter Berschin in ruling out his authorship of the poem, except perhaps (part of) the prologue, on stylistic grounds. The prologue is addressed to Gozbert the Younger, monk of St. Gall. BHL 3253.
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Prosimetrical version of the Life of St Gall, written by Notker Balbulus and extant only in fragmentary form.
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BHL 3608-3609.
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Anonymous Life of St Gregory the Great, written by a monk or nun of Streoneshealh (Whitby abbey, modern Yorkshire) before 714. It is the first known Life of the saint and highlights the role of the Gregorian mission in the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England. BHL 3637.
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A Breton Latin Life of St Gurthiern. He is said to have been a Welsh prince, who after inadvertently killing his sister's son, became a hermit, at first in Britain and finally, in Brittany, where he was granted Anaurot, i.e. Quimperlé, and founded its original church. The text is transmitted in the Cartulary of Quimperlé and consists there of three parts: a genealogical section, the Life proper and the story of posthumous miracles attributed to relics of the saint. BHL 3720-3722.
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Second version of the life of St Cybi to occur in Cotton Vespasian A xiv.
Anonymous vita of St Kentigern written for Herbert, bishop of Glasgow. Only a fragment of the text survives. BHL 4645.
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Latin vita of St Mo Chóemóc, abbot of Liath Mo Chóemóc (Leamakevoge or Leigh, Co. Tipperary).
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