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Mo Chutu and the Devil in Rathan
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Short anecdotal story about Mo Chutu of Rathan, telling how the Devil gained access to Rathan.
Mo Chutu, Comgall and the Devil
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Short anecdotal story about St Mo Chutu of Rathan, telling how the Devil caused him to go on pilgrimage.
Mo Ling and Findat
prose
verse
Early Irish anecdote about Mo Ling and an old woman (caillech) named Findat who gave her son to him; also on the appearance of Christ as a leper (clam).
Mo Ling and the trenching of his millstream
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Middle Irish anecdote about Mo Ling, here presented as a fosterson of St Máedóc of Ferns, and the trenching of a watercourse or millstream (taídiu) at Tech Mo Ling.
Nomina diaconorum Hibernensium
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list
List of Irish saints classified as deacons (diacones). It is closely associated in the manuscripts with two similar lists of saints who have been bishops or priests.
Nomina episcoporum Hibernensium
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list
List of 292 Irish saints classified as bishops. It is associated in the manuscripts with two similar lists of saints who have been priests or deacons.
Nomina sacerdotum Hibernensium
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list
List of 277 Irish saints classified as priests (sacerdotes). It is closely associated in the manuscripts with two similar lists of saints who have been bishops or deacons.
Páis Cristoforus
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Medieval Irish passion of Saint Christopher, dog-headed saint, evangelist and martyr.
Páis Georgi
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Pátraicc Macha mártai Gaídil
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13 st.
beg. Pátraicc Macha mártai Gaídil
Middle Irish poem (13 st.) in praise of St Patrick.
Scél for mírbuil Póil
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Short medieval Irish legend on the passion of St Paul, with an account of his decapitation and miraculous recapitation (recovery of his head). It is similar to the version told in the Irish homily Páis Petair ocus Póil
Story of Mo Chóe and the angel
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A short story in which Mo Chóe (Caelán), while building his church at Nendrum, is approached by an angel in the form of a magnificent bird. Two versions of it are known, one of which is found in the entry for the saint's feast-day in the Martyrology of Donegal.
Vita Darercae
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Vita Mariani Scotti
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A Latin biography of Marianus Scottus, written by an anonymous Irish monk at the Benedictine abbey of St James in Regensburg, about a century after his death. It offfers a glimpse of the history of the Schottenklöster in southern Germany and Austria, particularly those in Regensburg and the daughter houses in Vienna, Würzburg and Eichstätt.
Vita metrica sanctae Brigidae
verse
beg. Christe Dei uirtus, splendor, sapienta Patris
Donatus Scottus of Fiesole
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Donatus Scottus of Fiesole
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A metrical Latin Life of St Brigit thought to have been composed by the Irishman Donatus, bishop of Fiesole between 829–877. BHL 1458-1459.
Vita quarta sanctae Brigitae
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Animosus [al. Anmchad]Animosus ... al. Anmchad
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A recension of a Latin life of St Brigit of Kildare which survives only in two Franciscan editions of the 17th century. The editors are John Colgan, who attributed the work to one Animosus (whose name he thought to be a Latin counterpart to the Irish name Anmchad), and Hugh Ward, who attributed it to Ultán of Ardbraccan. Richard Sharpe has argued that it was part of the so-called Dublin collection of Irish saints’ lives. BHL 1460.
Vita sanctae Brigitae (Cogitosus)
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CogitosusCogitosus
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CogitosusCogitosus
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Early Latin Life of St Brigit, possibly the earliest of its kind to survive. BHL 1457.
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