A Second Thebaid: Being a Popular Account of the Ancient Monasteries of Ireland (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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WE are told that Ireland was known as A Second Thebaid even in the earlier ages of Christianity and that the number and fame of the religious institutions throughout the country further established the nation's claim to so glorious a title in after times. But this claim seems to have been neglected by later generations, owing chiefly, perhaps, to the want of information, in narrative form, concerning very many of our ancient monasteries. In the hope of reviving an interest in a title highly revered by our ancestors, I have undertaken to supply this want from the various sources of Irish Monastic History: telling as simply as I possibly can what I have read about those numerous homes Of holiness and learning - suppressed, for the most part, by the end Of the sixteenth century.

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