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Vita sanctae Brigitae (Lawrence of Durham)

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Lawrence of Durham

Lawrence of Durham

(c. 1110–1154)

English monk of Durham priory, who went on to become sub-prior and later prior. He was also an author, hagiographer and poet and his prose writings include a Latin Life of St Brigit, which he sent to Ailred of Rievaulx.

Latin Life of St Brigit, written by Lawrence, traditionally thought to be the monk of that name at Durham cathedral priory. The work was presented to Ailred of Rievaulx when the latter served at the court of David I, king of Scotland. BHL 1461.

Vita sanctae Brigitae (lost)

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It is thought that a lost 7th-century Latin Life of St Brigit underlies both the vernacular Bethu Brigte (9th century) and the Vita prima sanctae Brigitae (of uncertain date).

Vita sanctae Geretrudis

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Vita sanctae Moninnae

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ConchubranusConchubranus

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae

Vita sancti Abbani

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Latin Life of St Abbán of Mag Arnaide (Moyarney, now Adamstown in Co. Wexford)

Vita sancti Aedi filii Bricc

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Latin Life of Áed mac Bricc, patron saint of Rahugh, in three recensions

Vita sancti Albarti archiepiscopi Casellensis

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BHL 218.

Vita sancti Albei

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Latin life of St Ailbe of Emly.

Vita sancti Asaphi

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A Latin life of St Asaph, reputed founder of the see of St Asaph, found in Peniarth MS 231. It follows the tradition known from Jocelyn’s Life of St Kentigern, according to which Kentigern founded the church before transferring the authority over the church to St Asaph.

Vita sancti Bernachii

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Latin Life of St Brynach (Lat. Bernachius). BHL 1186.

Vita sancti Boecii

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Latin Life of St Buite (Buithe, Latin Boecius) of Monasterboice. It is a composite work, consisting of two parts: §§ 1-18, ending with the death of the saint, and §§ 19-31, on the saint’s miracles.

Vita sancti Brendani

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Latin Life of St Brénainn, abbot of Clonfert, of which there are five main recensions.

Vita sancti Briomagli

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Life of St Brioc (Briomaglus). BHL 1463.

Vita sancti Cadoci (Caradoc of Llancarfan)

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Caradog of Llancarfan

Caradog of Llancarfan

(d. after 1138)

Welsh hagiographer

Vita sancti Cadoci (Lifris of Llancarfan)

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Lifris of LlancarfanLifris of Llancarfan

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Vita sancti Cainnechi

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Latin Life of St Cainnech of Aghaboe (BHL 1519), which is known in three recensions.

Vita sancti Cathroe

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Reimann or OusmannReimann or Ousmann

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Continental Latin vita of St Cathróe of Metz, which is thought to have been written by one Reimann or Ousmann in the 980s, relatively soon after the subject’s death (see Dumville), and which was dedicated to Immo, abbot of Gorze. While the sole manuscript known to have contained the text is lost, it formed the basis for two 17th-century ‘editions’, one by John Colgan and the other by the Bollandists. BHL 1494.

Vita sancti Ciarani Cluanensis

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Vita sancti Clitauci

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Latin legend of Clydog of Merthyr Clydog (modern-day Clodock in Herefordshire). BHL 1864.

Vita sancti Columbae (Adomnán)

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Adomnán

Adomnán

(fl. c.628–704)

Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.

Latin Life of St Columba (Ir. Colum Cille), Irish missionary, monk and founder of Iona, written by Adomnán, abbot of Iona, about a century after the saint’s death. The work is organised into three books: one on the saint’s prophetic revelations, another on the miracles performed by him and the final one on angelic apparitions. Despite its hagiographic content, it remains an important source of historical study.

Vita sancti Columbani (Jonas of Bobbio)

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Jonas of BobbioJonas of Bobbio

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Vita sancti Condedi

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A brief biography of St Condedus, monk at Fontanelle abbey. BHL 1907.

Vita sancti Conuuoionis

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Life of St Conwoion, who in 832 founded Saint-Sauveur de Redon. The text consists of a prologue and 11 chapters. BHL 1946.

Vita sancti Cungari (Nova legenda Angliae)

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Latin Life of St Cyngar (Lat. Cungarus) of Congresbury, as it appears in the Nova legenda Angliae, which gives a revised and somewhat augmented version of an earlier text, part of which survives from the 12th century.

Vita sancti Cungari (Wells fragment)

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Life of St Cyngar (Lat. Cungarus) of Congresbury, a good part of which is preserved in a fragment held at Wells Cathedral. In the text, Cungarus is presented as the son of the emperor of Constantinople, who did not wish to follow in his father’s footsteps. He fled, ultimately reaching Britain, where he founded a small chapel at Congresbury, Somerset (suo vocabulo Cungrisberia nominatum), and to judge by the capitula, another place of worship in Wales. BHL Suppl. 2013. A fuller version of the text was printed in the Nova legenda Angliae.

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