The Life of St. Patrick

About this eBook

Author

Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927

Title

The life of St. Patrick and his place in history

Original Publication

London: Macmillan and Co., 1905.

Credits

Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements

Subject

Ireland -- Church history -- To 1172

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71431

Release Date

August 17, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE LIFE OF ST. PATRICK
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I ON THE DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIANITY BEYOND THE ROMAN EMPIRE
5. 5.CHAPTER II THE CAPTIVITY AND ESCAPE OF PATRICK — § 1. Parentage and Capture — § 2. Captivity and Escape
6. 6.CHAPTER III IN GAUL AND BRITAIN — § 1. At Lérins — § 2. At Home in Britain — § 3. At Auxerre — § 4. Palladius in Ireland ( A.D. 431-2) — § 5. Consecration of Patrick ( A.D. 432)
7. 7.CHAPTER IV POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF IRELAND
8. 8.CHAPTER V IN THE ISLAND-PLAIN, IN DALARADIA
9. 9.CHAPTER VI IN MEATH — § 1. King Loigaire’s Policy — § 2. Legend of Patrick’s Contest with the Druids — § 3. Loigaire’s Code — § 4. Ecclesiastical Foundations in Meath
10. 10.CHAPTER VII IN CONNAUGHT
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII FOUNDATION OF ARMAGH AND ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANISATION — § 1. Visit to Rome (circa A.D. 441-3) — § 2. Foundation of Armagh ( A.D. 444) — § 3. In South Ireland — § 4. Church Discipline — § 5. Ecclesiastical Organisation
12. 12.CHAPTER IX WRITINGS OF PATRICK, AND HIS DEATH — § 1. The Denunciation of Coroticus — § 2. The Confession — § 3. Patrick’s Death and Burial ( A.D. 461)
13. 13.CHAPTER X PATRICK’S PLACE IN HISTORY
14. 14.APPENDIX A SOURCES — Bibliographical Note — I — 1. The Confession — 2. The Letter against Coroticus — 3. Dicta Patricii — 4. Ecclesiastical Canons of St. Patrick — [Note on the Liber de Abusionibus Saeculi ] — 5. Irish Hymn ascribed to Patrick — 6. Hymn of St. Sechnall — 7. Life of Germanus, by Constantius — II — 1. Memoir of Patrick, by Tírechán — 2. Additional Notices in the “Liber Armachanus” — 3. Life of Patrick, by Muirchu — (4) Hymn Genair Patraicc — 5. Early Acts in Irish — 6. Vita Secunda (V₂) and Vita Quarta (V₄) — 7. Vita Tripartita — 8. Vita Tertia — 9. Life by Probus — 10. Notice of Patrick in the Historia Brittonum — III — 1. The Irish Annals — 2. The Catalogus Sanctorum — 3. Liber Angueli
15. 15.APPENDIX B NOTES — Chapter I — Chapter II — Chapter III — Chapter IV — Chapter V — Chapter VI — Chapter VII — Chapter VIII — Chapter IX — Chapter X
16. 16.APPENDIX C EXCURSUS — 1. The Home of St. Patrick (Bannauenta) — 2. Irish Invasions of Britain — 3. The Dates of Patrick’s Birth and Captivity — 4. The Place of Patrick’s Captivity — 5. Tentative Chronology from the Escape to the Consecration as Bishop — 6. The Escape to Gaul. The State of Gaul, A.D. 409-416 — 7. Palladius — 8. Patrick’s Alleged Visit (or Interrupted Journey) to Rome in A.D. 432 — 9. Patrick’s Consecration — 10. Evidence for Christianity in Ireland before St. Patrick — 11. King Loigaire and King Dathi — 12. The Senchus Mór — 13. Patrick’s Visits to Connaught — 14. King Amolngaid: Date of his Reign — 15. Patrick at Rome — 16. Appeal to the Roman See — 17. Patrick’s Paschal Table — 18. The Organisation of the Episcopate [430] — 19. The Place of Patrick’s Burial — 20. Legendary Date of Patrick’s Death — 21. Professor Zimmer’s Theory
17. 17.FOOTNOTES
18. 18.INDEX
19. 19.Untitled

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