Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, From the Introduction of Christianity - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. PALLADIUS, THE FIRST MISSIONARY FROM THE SEE OF ROME--HIS MISSION A FAILURE--THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE IRISH CHURCH THE LIFE OF ST. PATRICK HIS MISSION NOT FROM ROME--THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE MISSION OF ST. PA-TRICK--THE FLOURISHING STATE OF RELIGION IN IRELAND--IRELAND THE SEAT OF LEARNING THE TESTIMONY OF M0 SHEIM. Century Palladius the first missionary from the see of Rome.-----The account of this mission is given in Prospers Chronicle, flrat missoin-and the manner in which it is mentioned is peculiarly striking. The words are these,'Ad Scotus in Christum cbron. ad credentes ordinatur a Papa Celestino Palladius, et primus ann. 431. r r From several of the early writers, Adso, Prosper, &c. we are informed, that Ireland was called Scotia Major, and Albannia or Scotland, Scotia Minor, from an early colony of the Milesians, or Irish Scoti, who settled at Dalriede in Scotland, and who from their uniting with the Caledonian Picts, and being constantly recruited by fresh emigrations from Ireland, at length gave their name to the entire region of which at first, they occupied only a small corner. Bede (writing in A. D. 731) says of Ireland 'this is properly speaking, the country of the Scots; emigrating from this, they added in Britain a third nation to the Britons and Picts, already settled there.' 'From the consent of all antiquity the name Scoti belonged to the Irish alone, till the eleventh century.' (Pinkerton's enquiry into the history of Scotland. Vol. II. p. 261.) episcopus mittitur.' 'Palladius was sent to the Scots Century believing in Christ,' as their first, or rather perhaps their chief bishop. St. Celestine was the bishop who conse-/ crated Palladius, and sent him, not so much to preach to the pagan Irish, as to strengthen and ...